Group chats

A group chat is a single conversation that includes three or more volunteers — handy for planning a small project together. A group chat can have up to twenty people, and once you create it you can't shrink it back into a one-to-one.

Starting one

Open your inbox and click the New button at the top of the sidebar (look for the pencil-on-page icon). A "New Message" panel opens. Search for at least two other people to add. Once you've picked them, type your first message and send. With only one person picked, it becomes a one-to-one instead.

How it shows up

A group chat appears in your inbox with the names (or count) of the people in it and small chips for each member along the top of the conversation. The conversation works the same as a one-to-one: type, send, reply.

Replies in a group chat

Every reply is visible to everyone in the chat. There are no private side-channels — if you want to message just one person, open a one-to-one conversation with them.

Adding or removing someone

Only the person who created the group chat can add or remove people. Adding happens from the Add people chip in the row of member chips at the top of the conversation. Removing happens by clicking a member's chip and confirming. See the separate help article for the full walk-through.

Leaving a group chat

You can leave a group chat at any time. Open the three-dot More actions menu in the conversation header and pick Leave group. You'll keep the conversation in your inbox to look back on, but you won't see any new messages.

If the creator leaves, nobody can add or remove members ever again — the chat keeps running for everyone else but its membership is frozen.

Notifications

Each new message in a group chat sends one notification to each member. We email people too — they can turn that off in their notification settings.