Discussions

Rocket.Chat discussions allow you to have a separate conversation about larger topics in a team or channel. Use discussions to address specific topics and their related conversations. They are displayed under the Discussions section of the sidebar and identified by .

Discussions must belong to a parent team or channel.

For example, you have an Engineering-Team in your workspace and created a channel under that team called Website-Development-Channel. Let's break down the conversations about each feature of the website into discussions. Now, you can have a Website-Landing-Page discussion where all the conversations about the landing page occur.

Discussion information

The room information screen gives detailed information about the current discussion. These details include:

• Name: The name of the discussion, how users see the title and find the discussion via search.

• Description: The description of the discussion.

• Announcement: Announcements post in a bar under the discussion header.

• Topic: The topic here is next to the channel header's title. It shows which channel or group the discussion is linked to.

• Private: When enabled, makes the discussion private.

• Read Only: Tells whether a discussion is read-only and toggles the read-only status on the discussion. In read-only discussions, only people with admin permissions can post messages.

• Archived: Enable to archive a discussion. Nobody can post messages in an archived discussion, and searching will not find the discussion.

• Password to access: Protect the discussion with a password and allow you to set the password. If a discussion is password-protected, users are required to enter the password to become a discussion member.