Rocket.chat: list of all members for simple chat

[mhndm]

Hello
how the user find list of all members to click on the user name to start chat ?
I need something simple
the method to enter the general channel is difficult for some users

[asmartin]

+1

[graywolf336]

Mind providing some clarification? Not 100% sure I follow what you're wanting...

[asmartin]

Is there a way to see a list of all registered users, like a buddy list on a traditional desktop chat client? This global list of all users is a nice way to see who is online/offline, and also useful to find someone if you can't remember their username (e.g. by looking for their avatar)

[tuxBurner]

+1

[ericlakich]

+1 ... one suggestion would be to add a dropdown menu or left-column list when starting a new private chat. A second option would be a right-menu tab to expand to see all users and status.

[Noxionx]

+1

[graywolf336]

There is now a link on the member list "Show All" which will list all of the users in the channel.

[ToeBee]

I believe the request was to show all users on the system, not just in a given channel. To quote @asmartin from above, "like a buddy list on a traditional desktop chat client"

This desire just came up in our organization.

[graywolf336]

@ToeBee That is a different item than the issue is describing, at least in my opinion..

[ToeBee]

I guess we disagree on the parsing of the initial request. I see "how the user find list of all members to click on the user name to start chat" and see the desire for (as @asmartin said) a buddy list in Jabber that lists every user registered on the system. From that list you can click on a user to start a private chat.

Also "the method to enter the general channel is difficult for some users" indicates to me that the request does not apply to a single channel. We discussed this very thing in our test instance. "Well, we could just have everyone join a 'default' channel so they appear in the list of users of that channel" but that won't really scale if we try to roll this out to a larger team.

I'm happy to open another issue with this request more explicitly spelled out I guess. I just read through this one and thought it was exactly what we were wanting.

[asmartin]

@ToeBee - you're correct - what I was requesting is the ability to see all users in a list, not just users who are in the current channel