Hi Maria-

We'll consider that idea for a future release. Thanks for the suggestion.

We discussed using the friends list for this. We decided it was cleaner to start a new a new user-to-user relationship which we can build on for future privacy/blocking controls. Friends is very old and has a different use case than this tool.

momix

indigocard.xyz

We want to be able to continue to add people and let them drop out of the private chat if they want, similar to FB messenger group chats. Currently, we can't add more people after a group message has been started.

Yes exactly @netaji73q!
@sorrybro7800 Can you share more about the friends list or where I can learn more? Haven't used that feature.

Crowdstack doesn't have a concept of 'friends.' Instead, you can follow/get notifications when a specific person posts content. There's no mutual relationship. I'm not sure what that comment was referring to.

The reason our private messaging works the way it does is that it isn't really a chat, it's a thread, which means the content is persistent forever (until it's deleted). Every participant can see the history of the entire conversation. If you could add people to the conversation down the road, it exposes potential for comments that weren't intended to be seen by that person to be seen later. In our system, when you are posting in a PM, you know exactly who is seeing it.

For more ephemeral, ongoing, freeflowing conversations, we do have live chat rooms you could open and allow people to come and go. If you create a chatroom inside a subgroup, you can also restrict access by virtue of the subgroup access.

I think that "Friends List" is referring to Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/help/204604196335128/

Currently the volunteers will send private messages to folks to remind them/gather conversation ideas. In an ideal world, we could have one private message group thread for these updates (so not to spam the full community). We want to be able to continue to add people and let them drop out of the private chat if they want, similar to FB messenger group chats. Currently, we can't add more people after a group message has been started.

Yes @tabla8719!! Exactly.