Channels & Members

Channels are persistent team chats on the Channels page. This page covers managing them: members, invite links, renaming, archiving, and deletion.

Managing members

Open the member drawer either way:

• Click the participant avatars in the chat header
• Right-click the channel in the sidebar → Manage group (host only)

Adding people

The search field at the top of the drawer looks across your team, contacts, people you've met in meetings, and your organization directory. Clicking a person adds them immediately — no confirm step. People already in the channel are shown with an In channel badge; already-invited ones with Pending.

Adding someone external creates a pending invite (they get an email) rather than an instant member row. People you've met in a finished meeting are badged Met before; others outside your team are badged External.

Removing people

Tap a member row to remove that person. The Host row is fixed — the host can't be removed, but the role can be transferred (below).

Transferring the host

The channel's host — badged Host in the member list — is the person the channel bills to, and the one who manages members and settings. The host, or an admin of the host's team, can hand the role to another member:

1. Click the star icon next to the member's row
2. Confirm Make host

The target must already be a member of the channel and a licensed member of the same team — changing the host is available on paid plans. The new host takes over managing members and settings; the previous host becomes a regular participant. Everyone in the channel sees "name is now the host", and the change is recorded in the team audit log.

Host transfer isn't available for the team's shared default channel or for Inbox conversations. The same action is available mid-call from the participants menu — see Meeting Controls.

Pending invites

Hosts see an Invited — pending section listing outstanding invites, each with a Revoke invite button. Registered users are added the moment they're invited; everyone else joins on sign-up via the emailed link.

Invite link & email invites

The Invite members button (person-plus icon) in the drawer opens a dialog with both invite methods:

• Invitation Link — anyone with the link can join the channel. Copy it, or Regenerate to rotate the token — the old link stops working immediately. Useful if a link leaked.
• Email invites — paste addresses separated by commas, spaces, or new lines and click Send Email Invites. Each recipient gets a link to join this channel. Addresses already in the channel or already invited are flagged before anything is sent.

Renaming a channel

Right-click the channel in the sidebar → Rename (host only), or edit the title inline in the chat header. Leave the name empty to fall back to the default title built from participant names.

Channels created from a calendar-synced meeting take their title from the calendar event.

Archiving

Right-click a channel → Archive. Archived chats:

• move out of the main list into the archive view — the archive-box button in the sidebar header (it turns red when archived chats hold unread messages)
• are muted: their unread counts stay per-chat but leave the global badge
• lose their pinned position

The archive view has its own search box. To bring a chat back, open its menu in the archive and click Restore.

Deleting a channel

Deletion is available from the archive view only: archive the channel first, then open its menu → Delete. A confirmation dialog warns that all messages, files, and channel history are permanently deleted — this cannot be undone.

Related

• Chat overview — channels, Inbox, and chat types
• Inviting Members — team-level invitations
• Telegram — mirror a Telegram group into a channel