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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:
- The preferences panel — open it from the gear icon at the top of the conversation list on the Team Chat page (the messaging inbox), next to the “New conversation” button. It slides in from the right so you can change a setting and see the inbox update behind it right away.
- The settings page — go to Settings > Team Chat for the same controls laid out on a full page, useful when you want to review everything at once.
| Field | Description | Type | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | Segmented | Comfortable |
| Show avatars | Show sender avatars next to incoming messages in the conversation view. Turn this off for a tighter, text-first layout. | Toggle | On |
| 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. | Toggle | On |
Theme is app-wide rather than a Team Chat setting, so it is not in this panel and there is deliberately no Team-Chat-only theme. Change it from the profile menu in the top-right corner, or on Settings > Appearance.
| Field | Description | Type | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | Segmented | Enter to send |
| Field | Description | Type | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | Dropdown | All |
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. |
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.