Display the description of the team and channels
Every team and channel has a description that can be entered, yet there doesn't seem to be any way to see that description unless you can edit. How about making the description visible under the title in the right window? Maybe even a setting that allows me to make descriptions visible or not (on/off switch).
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Mattyboyz@charter.net
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UPVOTE: can't believe that someone went to all the trouble of creating a description box for a channel that can never be viewed. Epic Fail. Please add a mouse over or right click option.
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Anonymous
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Yes, this would be very useful, to inform team or channel members about the purpose . Please add this functionality. MANY THANKS
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Anonymous
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Agreed! The channels would be so much more useful if people would read the description and know what belongs there!
I don't think hovertext would do the job because sometimes the description is longer. It might have to be hyperlinked somewhere... or maybe the first 200 characters or so could be displayed in a shaded box at the top of the channel content. If 200 characters were exceeded, there would be a "more..." link or something similar.
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Michael Agius Muscat
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upvote
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Chrissie
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Need both the team and channel descriptions to be easily displayed somewhere. Mouseover would satisfy for both.
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Anonymous
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Another vote for description visibility
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Anonymous
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yes, display by default (as you can display it already now if you click on the title (and going to 'Manage team')...but it would be good to display this 'by default'
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Carole
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It would be good if you could actually see the description, no point adding any otherwise
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Kathy
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It doesn't make sense to ask users to complete an area of information that can't be displayed or used.
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Anonymous
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UPVOTE - the description is useless without it being visible from the main screen. How about displaying it when you hover over the channel?
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Hal Armstrong
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UPVOTE: Why have channel descriptions if there is no clue in the GUI that they exist? You can only see if you edit it? Not a good UX in my opinion!
While you are at it, add ability to insert hyperlinks so we can keep descriptions shorter by not having to copy text from elsewhere.
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Anonymous
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Or even via the right-click action
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Nico
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Definitely agreed! It could be displayed just below the breadcrumb, like the Team description is displayed in the Team's details in a line below the Team name.
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Tobias
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Big upvote! Slack has, so come on microsoft, let us have it - please
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Anonymous
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Would be helpful for new staff members to quickly get onboard with teams if they could see what the channel was about.
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Laura Almazan
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A vote for description visibility as well!
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jordivm70
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Another vote for description visibility
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Anonymous
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I vote for this feature as it helps in collaboration.
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Anonymous
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Another vote for mouse-over
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Lisa R
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Another vote for mouse-over -- what's the point of displaying the team/channel name when I mouse over the thing? It was already *right there*. Unfortunately, the fact that the team description is only visible in the carousel & channel description only when someone edits the channel (and that's SO not something I want to encourage random users to do) probably means our teams/channels won't *have* descriptions.