Make "Follow this channel" the default setting.
Usual Microsoft lack of UI intuition.
Channels should be followed by default with the user unfollowing it if they wish.
Derek
shared this idea
Thank you for the feedback. Changing the default setting is under review by the feature team, and your feedback is very useful as they are evaluating.
437 comments
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Dominic Erni
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Let the creator of a channel set the default setting of the notification of the created channel.
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Steve
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Adoption is much harder when the end users need to be told to switch on notification settings for every channel. Need to simplify this process when migrating over from different platforms.
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Anonymous
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This needs adding urgently. How do I get adoption of Teams across my company if the initial set up is not right and don't get a notification about a new message/post?
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Anonymous
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At the very least, admins creating the channel or adding new team members should be able to control whether the channel is "Opt-in" or "Opt-out" for following
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Anonymous
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This was suggested 4 years ago and it’s still “under review?” Seems ridiculous for a very simple and intuitive change.
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Anonymous
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Any update on this? We have team members missing messages because of this.
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Anonymous
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It's confusing because notification settings seem to conflict with the concept of showing/hiding channels.
I like that they are off on new channels by default. If there is too much noise, my users will just leave rather than fussing with notification settings, which I don't want. @channel and @team works fine once you get it. Then it is a conscious decision to sen a notification to all.
What I don't like is not knowing who is and who isn't getting notifications. That's where the gap for owners lies in my opinion.
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Ben Ferguson
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Totally disagree with this suggestion. I'd really prefer it if users weren't press-ganged into channels. "Opt-in" should always be the default, not "Opt-out".
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James
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James
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Allan
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Need to be defalult, if not a lot of people miss a lot of important info...
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Carl
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We have a companywide Team with some channels like HR, Fleet, IT, ... Now people are missing messages because their notifications are not setup the right way. Really would like to avoid to go back to sending emails instead
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Orwa Badran
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+1
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Kat Whiteley
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Would be great if Admins could specify that certain channels *must* have notifications turned on, AND that the channel *not* be hidden.
We have specific teams/channels that are used for communication to the whole org -- and want to ensure that those specific channels are always visible and notifications of postings are delivered.
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David O'Neal
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This gap in functionality is starting to cause us real pain. As MS directs us to do, we've been steering people to use their Team/Groups also for email distribution. However, when people are not following, they don't get the email. The owner also has no idea who is following and who is not. To make matters worse, the members list is not alphabetized which consumes a lot of effort just to see if someone has already been added as a member before proceeding to see if they are following. Why would something as simple as an alphabetized members list not be a default feature of Teams?
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Anonymous
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"I agree COMPLETELY. This same request has been requested in other UserVoice threads. Is there any reason not to allow administrators to make sure users get notified? (1) Notifications should be ON by default. (2) Administrators should be able to turn on notifications for all users for each channel."
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Anonymous
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Not sure if I am missing something, the the @channel mention is fine for this purpose - it allows people to get notified if they want and not if they don't. Not having all notifications on by default also allows conversations threads to happen 'in the open' without continually pinging people that are not involved.
Instead, I think it is currently strange that the default behaviour of channel notifications is marked as "custom" when a user has not customised it. But do not think that the actual behaviour of only being notified if you or the channel you have shown is mentioned should change by default.
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Bente
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disagreed
I rather umute a channel that I'm interested in than unmute all channels that I'm not interested in. The default you suggest would create unneccessary noise. -
Claudia
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Please make this a feature.
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Ondřej Zikmund
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Guys, maybe I have missed something, but when I now create new Channel, notifications are set to ALL ACTIVITY. Which is good! And when I for example set notifications off, then go to Custom and click on Reset to default, it again sets back to "Banner + Feed" for new posts and for mentions. That seems to be fine. Can You confirm?
EDIT: seems that this is true only if in Setting - Notifications - Teams and channels - I have chosen ALL ACTIVITY. This settings have influence on all Channels, but I suppose only for me, in my client. Anyway that seems to be faster for users to turn on ALL ACTIVITY for all channels than set it for each Channel one-by-one.