We got a flood of feedback in research not to eliminate this button completely, but to minimize it. So you’ll see a design change soon that makes the Reply button a little bit less conspicuous.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Suphatra

Its been a while since the last update, so I wanted to send a quick message to reassure you this is still in progress. Its a complicated feature to ship, as you can imagine how many commands we have to create, so thus it takes some time.

We’re hoping to have it this fall (and that timeline is looking good).

Thanks and I’ll let you know as we get closer to ship!

Sincerely,
Suphatra

Hey everyone, just wanted to check in and let you know that this (the feature to delete a chat thread) is almost out of Design. I’ll let you know once it goes into Engineering. Not too much longer now!

Thanks for your support, and hope everyone is having a nice week.

Sincerely,
Suphatra

We had some resource constraints so we’ve had to stop work on this and move it to the backlog. Work should resume in the winter.

Thank you for your suggestion! This is being planned.

If you want to participate in user testing for this feature, please sign up here: https://1drv.ms/xs/s!AryUNzh1ogZzif8pDcOcx2pW45I87w

Suphatra
Microsoft Teams

Hi folks, its been a while since I updated this popular request, so wanted to give you an update.

We’re making some overall changes to the UI/UX so we’ll approve your clicking and flow for sure. As for making “Teams” and “Chat” the same tab, that is not likely to come with this first shipment of design changes. However, it is NOT off the table.

Thanks as always for your feedback, patience, and your help in making Teams better and better.

Sincerely,
Suphatra

Hi everyone, thanks so much for your patience on this. We had to switch our resources on this to handle some high priority work around quality and performance, so we lost some time mid-stream on this item.

However, we’re back in action and we anticipate dogfooding this item internally next week and getting it out shortly after. So, I’m crossing my fingers for end of summer. I’ll update you as soon as I know more!

Thanks,
Suphatra

Hi everyone! Many of you had emailed me when we rolled out “show user actively typing” in the chat area, that you’d like this in the channels area too. I’ve merged the tickets together to help you build support for this idea, and I’ve also sent it into engineering for a review.

Keep submitting your thoughts on this item and encouraging others to vote. Its a great idea.

Suphatra
Microsoft Teams

Sadly, work on this has stopped and been reprioritized. It is on the backlog for now.

I’m sorry folks! I’ll continue to include this in my internal reporting as a highly requested user item.

Suphatra

Thanks everyone who has flagged this as a bug. Can you give me more info? If you have your user logs, please email them to me at sparavi@microsoft.com.

Thank you for helping us make Teams better and better!

Suphatra
Microsoft Teams

We’re fixing bugs identified in the comments, and other user reports we’ve received around markdown, but we’ve decided we’re not going to fundamentally change our markdown support.

This is the first time we’ve declined a request, and it didn’t come easily. We weighed this against other important features we’re working on to deliver and we had to make some tough choices.

Really appreciate your understanding on this, and please feel free to ping me if you have any questions, complaints, or need to rant.

Suphatra

I just used this new feature myself, the other day. It works great! You should see it soon once it gets out of our internal testing.

Suphatra

In progress! :-)