Changing your chat preferences
Adjust your chat settings through your Chat preferences, including:
- Enabling/disabling chat for your account
- Disabling pings from
@alland@herementions - Changing the desktop notification sound
Functionality exclusive to chats
Full-Screen Chat
Expand the chat window to a full-screen view using the appropriate button. This is useful for a focused chat experience.
If you use chat often, opening it in full-screen view and pinning the tab in your browser makes for a great and convenient experience.
Managing Channels
Tap on the 
icon next to Channels in the sidebar to manage channels. Hover over the header if the icon isn’t visible.
Configure channel settings (e.g., muting, desktop notifications) by visiting the channel setting page:
Leave a channel via the About tab in its settings.
Message Retention
Chats are short-lived by default, with messages in channels lasting 90 days. This period can be customized by admins. Personal chats last indefinitely by default.
Quote in Topic
Share a chat message in a topic by hovering over it, opening the kebab menu (three vertical dots), and selecting “Quote in Topic”.
Messages quoted in this manner will remain in the topic indefinitely, even after expiring in chat itself and no longer being available there.
Reactions
React to messages with a range of emoji. Commonly used emoji are pinned, with more available by tapping on the icon to the right.