For those of you saying it is an essential function, do you have a video demonstration of what it would look like that is different from the current threaded posts channel format? The concept was discussed again this week in the Communities town hall, it seems to me that the developers aren't imagining what you are asking for. They think the current post-and-comments format is good (I tend to agree but maybe I don't have the perspective of your experiences, for me a Discord thread gets confusing very fast!). The suggestion here on the Ideas Board has plenty of votes; but, in what way would the message board channel be different than any other channel? What would you want it to do? How would it behave?

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Shreya Banerjee News about it?

It's very important to have a chance to Set a channel as a message board or group live chat as Discord or any other community

Thanks

500 plus votes and product team has mentioned it coming in another quarter during town hallw. Live chat still isn't showing as "in progress," so what's the newest update on status? This is a strong driver of engagement in the communities!

LIve Chat functionality directly available in the community UI is tentamount for upselling free community members to a paid community. This should be FRONT and CENTER. Cheers, Stef

Please vote this https://ideas.gohighlevel.com/communities/p/request-competitive-examfriendly-quiz-system-with-timer-mock-mode-random-order

Please do this feature! We really need to be able to have a live community chat between all members of that group for our course training (desktop and mobile). We have to temporarily use telegram but can't monitor it with member access. Please make this live chat feature a thing inside the community groups!

Hide the Member list, Chat, and Invite Members buttons.

I am using CSS in Communities to hide functions that should be an option for the group admin to turn on or off depending on the purpose and culture of the community group.

We need a toggle in Settings where the group admin can turn off or on those features - Invite Members button, Chat, and Members.

this feature is needed. My team use to be on BAND app and it had a chat section for live interactions. it was so important. now we need to create a group text.

Yes, this is very much needed, ideally channels could be created in a "chat" format (Discord/Slack style) or the current post format. This would make Communities much more valuable! Can you take a look at this Shaun Clark Shivani Gera Nilasish Pal ?