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Team chat

Every team has a team chat: a single running conversation for the roster, inside Messages. It replaced the old per-game message board — everything that was posted there is still here, tagged with the game it was about.

Who can do this

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Every active coach, captain and player on the team. Subs and observers aren’t part of it. Your organization’s admins (and site admins) can read it and remove a message, but never post; league admins can’t see it.

Steps

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  1. Click Messages in the navbar. Your team’s chat is listed as a conversation labelled Team chat — it’s there even before anyone has posted.
  2. On a phone, Messages is also one tap away in the bar at the bottom of the screen, so you can jump into the team chat from anywhere — a game page included.
  3. Type and hit Enter (Shift+Enter for a new line). Add a photo with 📷, a GIF with GIF, or an emoji from the desktop picker.
  4. Long-press or hover a message to react, edit your own (within 15 minutes) or delete it, or Report someone else’s to your league admins. Coaches and captains can Remove any message.
  5. Reply opens a side conversation — a thread — under that message instead of quoting it in the main chat. You’re taken to the thread’s own screen with a Follow/Unfollow button in the header; replying or starting a thread follows it automatically. Back in the room, the message shows the latest reply or two, who’s replied, and a View all N replies link back into the thread.
  6. Tap ℹ︎ in the header to see who’s in the room, grouped by coaches & captains and players, and to snooze a chatty teammate or the whole team.
  7. Coaches and captains can pin an important message (field change, arrival time) — long-press or hover it and choose Pin. Up to 3 pinned messages show as chips right under the header; tap a chip to jump straight to that message, or tap the ✕ on it to unpin. Anyone in the room can see the pins; only coaches and captains can add or remove one.

Good to know

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  • Everyone in the room is notified of every top-level message — bell, plus push if you have it turned on. Chat never sends email — if you’re not on push, the bell and the unread badge are where you’ll see it. A burst of several messages close together arrives as one push about 90 seconds later instead of one per message — and if you’ve already opened the chat and read them by then, you won’t get a push for them at all. Only people following a thread are notified about its replies — the room isn’t (replies get the same 90-second grouping). Use Mute on the thread (1 h, 8 h, until tomorrow, or until you turn it back on) to quiet it; unread counts still update.
  • Opening a room with unread messages takes you to a “New messages” line, scrolled to where you left off, instead of always dropping you at the very bottom. A “Jump to latest” button stays visible until you scroll all the way down, so you can skip ahead to the newest message any time.
  • Thread unread is separate from the room’s. Reading the main chat doesn’t mark a thread’s replies read, and reading a thread doesn’t touch the room. Look for “N new replies” under a message with an active thread, and next to a conversation in your inbox list, for replies you haven’t seen yet in threads you follow. (There’s no “New messages” line inside a thread itself — the “N new replies” count already tells you what’s unread there.)
  • Coaches and captains can switch team chat off under Team Config → Team Chat. The conversation goes read-only (“Team chat is off for this team”) — the history stays, and it picks up where it left off when switched back on.
  • Old message-board posts are here. Each one keeps its author, time and the game it was about.
  • Notification settings for all of chat — push on or off, and everything you’ve snoozed — live under Profile → Notifications → Chat.
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