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  • About Chat
  • Creating a Chat Room
  • Deleting a Chat Room
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  1. Hylo User Manual

Chat on Hylo

Chat is at the core of Hylo and chat features make it easy to coordinate quickly with others in your Group.

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Chats can be used for simpler, real-time communication channels for more informal exchanges.

About Chat

  • Each new group will have a main chat channel, which we will call Home, that starts as the group’s default view.

    • Stewards can change their home view from the Home chat to another chatroom or widget by .

  • Chat rooms will need to be created manually by a group steward by editing their Menu.

  • Chat rooms are connected to a topic and any chat/post that use that topic in that group will appear in the chat room if it exists

    • Ex: For a chatroom titled “regeneration”, any chat/post elsewhere in the Group that uses the topic of #regeneration,” will pop that post/chat in that chatroom

  • To create a chat, navigate to a chatroom and click on the box that says “Send a chat to #'chatroom'”

    • There is a toolbox to edit your text

    • Attach images & files

    • If you are a group steward, click the announcement icon to send a blast out to the group

  • Respond to other members’ chats with an emoji or a direct comment

Creating a Chat Room

To create a chat room, navigate to Edit Menu in the Context Menu of your group. If Chat is not already in your Context Menu, add it by clicking the (+) icon on the widget. Once Chat is in the context menu, click "Add New Chat"

Deleting a Chat Room

Navigate to Edit menu in the Context Menu. Click on the icon adjacent to the chat room to drag it to the top where it says "Drag here to remove from the menu".

Chat Notifications

  • When joining a new group, by default you will get a notification for each chat in the main chat room.

  • Default Notification setting for other chat channels is “mentions only”

  • Once a member participates in a chat for the first time, we consider “subscribing” to the chat/topic and Hylo will enable notifications for every post in that channel.

  • To adjust your notification settings for each chatroom, click on the Bell icon at the top of each chatroom. Notification options include:

    • All chats

    • Announcements & mentions

    • Mute this chat room

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