Manually adding members to a chat channel

[Jagster (Jakke Lehtonen)]

If and when that channel is connected with some category, everyone who can see that category is automatically a member, so there is no need to invite users. Changing their group to match that category is enough.

But if that channel is a group chat, private one, you might want to read this first:

Improvements to group chats — add users to existing chats, easily create new groups, name your group chats

In addition to channels and direct messages, Discourse chat supports group messages (i.e. personal chats with 3 or more members), which makes it easier for small groups to stay connected with each other. We recently introduced a number of improvements to group chats to let you add new members to an existing group chat, easily create new chats, and support naming your group chats. Note: We’re using the word “group” here in a general sense to describe multiple people — we are not referring to Gro…