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Add Group Chat As A Channel
Hi all, I am wondering if there is a way to make a channel in a team that behaves the same as a group chat. I understand the advantages and disadvantages of conversations vs chats. Basically I l...
There is many ways this could be implemented, but the current Channel -> Post ->Chat-ish scheme not useful by any means. All the environment for Teams/Sharepoint/... works really well and are really usefull to keep track of files, discussions and so on. But I can't convince anyone (sometime neither myself) to use Channels for those discussion because they are just inconvenient.
1 - The app just ain't designed to notify and present the content from those channels by default.
2 - Posts instead of promoting the current discussion just hide their contents.
3 - No one is willing to address their issues at some obscure section that never present others messages.
I could be complain about many issues that make those channels just a waste of the framework, but let me suggest a few things:
1 - DROP posts, they are not usefull as is.
2 - Let a Channel be also represented by a single contiguous chat.
3 - Optionally, you can use posts to expand/collapse meetings contents when you schedule it into a channel.
4 - Optionally, you can have some sort of Post Scheme that is attached to a channel for give some highlight over some sort of announce.
I call 3 and 4 optional since just dropping off the current post implementation and moving to a simple chat is a great improvement by itself, I don't any of us is relying into Posts since they are just not useful. Nevertheless, you may want to to have a switching option before replacing current implementation.
Is microsoft able to solve this?
1 - The app just ain't designed to notify and present the content from those channels by default.
2 - Posts instead of promoting the current discussion just hide their contents.
3 - No one is willing to address their issues at some obscure section that never present others messages.
I could be complain about many issues that make those channels just a waste of the framework, but let me suggest a few things:
1 - DROP posts, they are not usefull as is.
2 - Let a Channel be also represented by a single contiguous chat.
3 - Optionally, you can use posts to expand/collapse meetings contents when you schedule it into a channel.
4 - Optionally, you can have some sort of Post Scheme that is attached to a channel for give some highlight over some sort of announce.
I call 3 and 4 optional since just dropping off the current post implementation and moving to a simple chat is a great improvement by itself, I don't any of us is relying into Posts since they are just not useful. Nevertheless, you may want to to have a switching option before replacing current implementation.
Is microsoft able to solve this?
