Using community chat
Real-time text chat with all your community members.
Every community has a built-in chat room. Open it from the Chat tab in the community nav.
What you can do
- Send text messages with rich formatting (bold, italic, links)
- Paste or attach images, videos, files
- Reply to a specific message β click the reply icon on hover; recipients see your reply quoted
- See typing indicators when someone's composing
- See who's online via the "Online now" widget in the sidebar
Moderation
Owners, admins, and moderators can delete any message. Authors can delete their own. Banned members can't post.
Notifications
You get a notification for replies + direct mentions (@username). Other messages don't notify by default β to mute or watch a chat, use the chat header dropdown.