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alexnxg
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May 11, 2022
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What happened to the options to view more or less in the list of chats and channels??!!?

  • May 11, 2022
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Is it me or did Zoom just removed the feature where only the most recent chats or channels would appear on your list and everything would be hidden with the option to "view all" or hide if you didn't want to have to scroll through the entire list. This is very annoying and would like to know if this is still available. I tried right clicking and looked in the settings but couldn't find anything. I can't imagine why whoever made this decision thought it would be a good idea.  Why fix something that ain't broke?

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    MicahHoffman
    Community Champion | Employee
    May 11, 2022

    Hi Alex!

     

    The only aggregate list of chats/channels that you can scroll through is the @Mentions where you can see mentions in recent order. 

     

    This @mentions feature is still there though, so if it's hidden you can unhide it in your settings.

     

    For everything else, you will need to click through individual channels or chats, there is not and has never been an aggregate of recent chats that didn't require you to go to individual chats/channels besides the @mentions feature I described.

     

    You can definitely request this feature: https://zoom.us/feed as it sounds like a really cool idea!

     

    Thanks,

    Micah

     

     

     

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    alexnxgAuthor
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    May 11, 2022

    Thanks Micah. But I did have the option to click on a "View more" to expand and "View Less" to only show the top handful or so of each chat/channel on the list of chats or channels on the left hand side frame.  Those "View More" or "view less" options are no longer there.  They were there at the bottom of each list.

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    MicahHoffman
    Community Champion | Employee
    May 12, 2022

    Yeah that's probably when it happened because it was very recent. 


    Hi Alex,

     

    that must be it then. Can you test out the folders and provide feedback on if you prefer the previous sidebar look and behavior? You can use this link:  https://zoom.us/feed 

     

    Thanks,

    Micah

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      Dokeo
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      June 30, 2022

      You aren't dreaming.

      It's a feature that was removed or "augmented" (?)

      I was on 5.8. Updated to 5.10, and now it's gone.

      Sad.

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        alexnxgAuthor
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        July 1, 2022

        yeah there's a lot of people I chat with on Zoom and then we have chat groups as well and channels and not everyone calls out people with the @ sign. I liked the feature because it kept only the most recent/active chats/channels on top and the rest was hidden from view.  If I wanted to look at anything that was not on the top 5?, I would just hit the view more link and it would expand.  Then after I was done, I could hit the view less link to hide it again.  I tried to use thee folders but that's so not intuitive for me, I'm not going to use it.  Sometimes I wonder if product people actually listen to their users before making changes like this. 

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          Bart1
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          July 25, 2022

          Same here - I really liked they way it was before: Only recent chats and the rest hidden. It's very annoying to have this endless list of chats that you need to scroll through! Please get the show / hide chats function back on!

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            brafeedy
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            August 10, 2022

            Same here.  having this disappear is frustrating.

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