Set how Team Chat looks and behaves for you — message density, avatars, conversation previews, how you send messages, and which conversation list you land on
Tune Team Chat from a slide-in panel on the page, or from a full settings page.
Team Chat preferences control how the messaging inbox is presented to you — how tightly messages are packed, whether sender avatars and conversation previews show, which keystroke sends a message, and which conversation list Team Chat opens to. You can reach these preferences two ways, and they always show the same values:
How conversations and messages are laid out for you.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Message density | Comfortable or Compact spacing for messages in the conversation view and rows in the conversation list. Comfortable gives each message a little more room; Compact tightens the spacing so more fits on screen. Message text always stays legible either way. |
| Show avatars | Show sender avatars next to incoming messages in the conversation view. Turn this off for a tighter, text-first layout. |
| Show conversation previews | Show the last message under each conversation in the list. Turn this off to see just the conversation names, with no preview line. |
How you write and send messages.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Send messages with | Choose which keystroke sends a message. With Enter to send, pressing Enter sends and Shift+Enter starts a new line. With ⌘/Ctrl+Enter, bare Enter starts a new line and ⌘+Enter (Mac) or Ctrl+Enter (Windows) sends — handy if you write multi-line messages. |
What Team Chat opens to when you land on it.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Default filter | The conversation-list tab Team Chat opens on: All, Unread, Starred, or Deal Rooms. You can still switch tabs at any time — this just decides where the list starts each time you open Team Chat. |
Where your message notification settings live — this panel points at them.
Message notifications aren't a Team Chat view preference, so the panel doesn't duplicate them — it links out to where they already live, so there's never a second, conflicting copy of the setting:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Message notifications | Your global level for new-message notifications. The "Manage notifications" link opens your Notification settings, where the new-message notification and its direct-messages-only scope are configured. |
| Per-conversation mute | To mute a single conversation or set it to mentions-only, right-click it (or long-press on mobile) in the conversation list and choose from the menu — that per-conversation control is separate from your global level and isn’t changed here. |
A related setting lives on its own page — the panel points at it.
Theme is an app-wide setting rather than a Team Chat one, so the panel links out to it instead of duplicating it:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Appearance / theme | The light, dark, and accent theme for the whole app. Opens your Appearance settings via the "Manage appearance" link. There is deliberately no Team-Chat-only theme. |
Changes save themselves and follow you everywhere.
There is no Save button. Every change you make autosaves the moment you make it, and a brief Saved confirmation appears to let you know it stuck (you may see a quick Saving…first). Because the panel and the settings page read and write the same preferences, a change in one shows up in the other immediately — and because they are stored on your account rather than in the browser, they follow you to any device you sign in on.