We need group chat! · Skool Community

We need group chat!

IMO I think this is a critical missing feature of skool at this time. I want to move my team to skool as well so we communicate here and our focus literally stays on skool and not slack. It will increase the participation of my team which we need. We should not have to go to Slack to message each other. I think if we messaged each other on Skool we will naturally participate more with our groups. But I cannot message 2 or more people together. There should be a very simple way to start messaging one person and then be able to add another person or two or more. Then in the dropdown list of messages in addition to names, there will be groups of names shown as

James Medi . 11h

John Smith, Jane Doe, Jerry Tamaya . 13h

Jerry Tamaya . 1d

James Medi, Sher Khan, Takateo Tamasi . 2d

The group name should not show the users' name. In the future, you can allow people to name their groups.

Then when needed the group could be pulled up from the list dropdown to message again. Clicking on group opens up the same exact interface used for p2p messaging. This implementation of group chat requires no major changes in visual architecture and used the current messaging icon and shows messages from individuals and groups, with one exception. You would need to add a new tab in the top nav.

Community Classroom Calendar Members Leaderboards Groups

The search box should search all your groups and show results in a tab for groups. Clicking on Groups can bring up a list where people can click on it and I suppose rename the group to whatever they want. I probably would not let people delete their groups. Old groups get deprioritized in the visual list and go to the bottom with the latest active ones coming to the top.

So here are some ideas. Maybe you are already on it, but I thought to share. If you find value in it and want to discuss I am available.

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