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Introduction

Users have requested the ability to make sure a reply within a thread gets visibility in the channel for those who may not be following the thread. This proposal adds a new checkbox to the reply input that, when selected, will surface the reply back in the channel (similar in appearance to a permalink preview message).

User’s who have experience with Slack are also expecting this feature and are missing it.

Sending a reply to the channel in one action

New checkbox under reply input box

When CRT is ON, a new checkbox is added just below the reply input in the thread view.

This feature enables users to have their reply posted back to the channel to ensure it gets visibility to others who may not be following the thread yet.

Default OFF

This checkbox is always unchecked by default

Tooltip

When hovering over the checkbox, a tooltip displays after the standard tooltip delay

How replies sent back to channel display

When a reply is posted to the channel, an indication is displayed above the message with a linked preview of the root post of the thread. As well, the reply is displays as a permalink preview.

The linked preview text opens the RHS with the thread scrolled to the reply message that was posted back to the channel.

This is basically an exception for CRT that shows a reply in a specific scenario and has some extra styling and meta information attached to it.

Prevent forked replies to the message sent back to the channel

• When users click on this message it will open the original thread

• Similarly, if users choose ‘reply’ from the post hover menu, or the ••• menu, it will open the original thread rather than creating a thread on the broadcasted message.

Indicator on replies also sent to channel

User is typing indicator

Mobile experience