# Moving users from Whatsapp to Discourse Chat **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-users-from-whatsapp-to-discourse-chat/368571 **Category:** Community Building **Tags:** chat **Created:** [June 2, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-users-from-whatsapp-to-discourse-chat/368571 "2025-06-02T15:52:29Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![nathank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nathank/32/290039_2.png) [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank) #### Post date: [June 3, 2025, 2:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-users-from-whatsapp-to-discourse-chat/368571/3 "2025-06-03T02:42:04Z")
Unfortunately, you can’t set the defaults at the site level (or indeed at the Channel level) - only at the user level. I don’t think that anything has changed since this: > [@Improving the mobile experience for my users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-the-mobile-experience-for-my-users/263977/7): > > > [@Improving the mobile experience for my users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-the-mobile-experience-for-my-users/263977/5): > > > > on the chat: you have to specifically specify a group or a person in _each_ message for him to be notified. > > That is configurable, albeit not easily. > > For personal chats, the default is being auto-notified for every message. This can be turned down for each chat thread by the user. > > For channels, the default is as you describe. Users can change that to every message if they wish. > > The last time I looked, the only way to change the default behaviour was to delve into the Rails console. Getting this into the UI could be a worthy feature request Of note, you can work around this by using the @all mention (notifies all those in the Channel). I’d encourage someone to put in a formal request in #Contribute > Feature describing what you need it to do. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-users-from-whatsapp-to-discourse-chat/368571)._