# Making 'Leave Chat' more discoverable
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-leave-chat-more-discoverable/239844
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** chat, sidebar
**Created:** [September 23, 2022, 9:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-leave-chat-more-discoverable/239844 "2022-09-23T09:53:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 9:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-leave-chat-more-discoverable/239844/1 "2022-09-23T09:53:36Z")
This has cropped up a couple of times in ~chat-feedback now where the ‘Leave Chat’ button is too hidden to find easily. One of the suggestions is to add it next to where you would find the ‘Join’ button, as well as adding a cross to the sidebar like Personal Chats:
Originally sent in [chat feedback](https://meta.discourse.org/chat/c/-/129)
bartv
I can't figure out how to leave a channel?
JammyDodger
If you click on the channel title, and then flip to the About tab, you should see the option to Leave in there 👍
For Personal Chat you can press the x icon next to the chat title, but this is [currently only available on desktop](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-leave-chat-cross-to-mobile-view/234826)
bartv
Thanks! I clicked the pencil next to 'channels' and was expecting an option to leave on that page somewhere:
JammyDodger
That does make sense to have one next to the 'join/joined' button
Originally sent in [chat feedback](https://meta.discourse.org/chat/c/-/129)
xan2622
Hi. How does one leave a (chat) channel ?
I can see "Join" buttons, but not "leave" buttons.
Also, on the left sidebar, when I hover the channel with my mouse cursor, I expected a [X] button to appear but there's none.
JammyDodger
For the public channels you can leave them from the channel's About tab - [https://meta.discourse.org/chat/channel/129/chat-feedback/info/about](https://meta.discourse.org/chat/channel/129/chat-feedback/info/about)
You can navigate to there by clicking on the channel's title
xan2622
Thank you.
It's a ~~little bit~~ too "hidden", IMO
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 2:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-leave-chat-more-discoverable/239844/2 "2022-09-23T14:47:14Z")
One thought I’ve had recently that’d improve this a _little_ bit is to make the About page the first place you go when you click on a channel name, rather than the members list.
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### Author:  [@xan2622](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xan2622)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 3:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-leave-chat-more-discoverable/239844/3 "2022-09-23T15:03:31Z")
Mock-up:
The [X] button would appear on mouse over.
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-leave-chat-more-discoverable/239844/4 "2022-09-23T15:14:20Z")
We already have an X for personal chats, so that seems like an easy extension for channels
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2022, 7:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-leave-chat-more-discoverable/239844/5 "2022-09-24T19:51:53Z")
Replicate the Leave Chat button between the About and Settings tab, because the Settings tab is what you get when you click the only remaining visible “more options” button on a joined channel.
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### Author:  [@th21](https://meta.discourse.org/u/th21)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2022, 9:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-leave-chat-more-discoverable/239844/6 "2022-09-24T21:11:45Z")
After reading this topic and clicking on the pencil button I realize there are more channels to join 🤔 maybe we should make joining more discoverable as well
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-leave-chat-more-discoverable/239844/7 "2022-09-25T02:56:44Z")
Curious what we do for groups? It is possible to make groups one can freely join and leave, is there UX we can copy from there?
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### Author:  [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2022, 9:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-leave-chat-more-discoverable/239844/8 "2022-09-26T21:07:50Z")
It would also be very handy as an admin to be able to remove people from a channel. I’ve had a couple of times when I’ve accidentally added a whole bunch due to a rogue group added to the category security settings and the only way to deal with it is to delete the channel.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-leave-chat-more-discoverable/239844/9 "2022-09-26T21:40:19Z")
If we’re not talking hundreds it’s also an option to impersonate and leave on their behalf.
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### Author:  [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2022, 10:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-leave-chat-more-discoverable/239844/10 "2022-09-26T22:19:20Z")
That is a pain for more than one or two!! And you can’t impersonate Admins (the ones I most frequently accidentally include).