Tag: Hide inactive channels

In March, Microsoft said that they’d change Teams to offer suggestions about which inactive channels a user might want to hide from client channel lists. That update is now available. There’s no tenant-wide admin control, so users must decide for themselves whether Teams will suggest which channels to hide. No detail is available how Teams decides about inactive channels, but the change to put control in user hands is welcome.

The Teams feature to hide inactive channels is now fully rolled out. Another recent change suppresses notifications from hidden channels, and this could cause a problem for people who rely on notifications to know what’s happening in a channel. Both updates are good, but some differentiation or control over notifications for user-hidden and auto-hidden channels might be good.