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.
442 comments
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Pierre L
commented
Agreed. Channel Notifications should not be muted by default and should be ON by default.
- The Teams App is pointless otherwise.
- It's as crazy as having Outlook set to work "Offline" by default and not receiving emails at all until you change that setting.
- Worse still it's like having to enable to receive emails from every sender on an individual basis! -
Anonymous
commented
I totally agree. This feature is a must for our company
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Uli Dahler
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I totally agree. This feature is a must for our company
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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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Ariel Shamai
commented
This is the most frustrating issue with Teams thus far. Either change the default notifications to "on" or allow and the channel owner to change it to "on".
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Seda Tırpancı
commented
+1
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Talha Turhan
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+1
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Michael Twigg
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My school I acted Teams and I have to get every student to set notifications...this is going to be a nightmare...why wouldn't they have discovered a need for this...
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Paweł Dymek
commented
YES.
Please, change that.
Every time when I create new channel for people, I need to remind them to turn on notifications on that channel, because if I don't the never see my posts and that stuff is seriously hindering our workflow -
Anonymous
commented
Totally agree, notifications should be on by default. With team owners giving access to others to change notifications for the group
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Anonymous
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Completely agree - default to on.
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Jay Wehner
commented
+1 to this!
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JS
commented
Notify should certainly be the default as so many people are missing important information within a team - could even be a setting on the team/channel to set the default for all team members
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Landon Luesing
commented
This is a long time to decide on and change something simple like the default channel notification settings. Most other pieces of Microsoft software are "full open" by default and you tailor them back to meet your needs. Other pieces of Teams are this way, like: the default position around Team/O365 group creation, Team/channel member settings, app/bot add-ins, etc. Why not this one piece? We are getting a lot of feedback from our users as well that having to manually enable notifications in new channels seems very backwards and not intuitive.
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Kelly Wright
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Please add this Yesterday! There are no fewer than a dozen other similar suggestions on this site each with dozens of votes to add this feature. I'm amazed channel notifications haven't been on by default. So much frustration can be avoided by changing this. Please!
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Anonymous
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How am I able to convince my team members to transition over from Slack when this still isn't supported? People are complaining about not seeing messages all the time!
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Nick Riches
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P.S. The situation would be made a lot simpler, if there were tick boxes for notifcations in the Channel settings.
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Nick Riches
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Yes, you absolutely have to add this feature. It is very easy to miss new posts by accidentally not enabling notifications for the relevant channel. Have a default whereby notifications are set to "on" for all new channels would resolve this.
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Brendan
commented
How is this still not a thing yet?
How are we meant to migrate users who are not tech-savvy to Teams when the default behaviour is that they do not see any of the notifications for new channels they are added to?
This should be enabled / followed by default, with 'opt-out' to mute notifications per channel. Just like, you know, every other successful collaboration and messaging app..Slack, WhatsApp, etc..
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Aaron
commented
2017 called and is amazed that this is still not enabled by default.