Chat

Here you'll learn how to send messages to the whole team and to participants of a specific event.

What is chat?

Chat is the team's free-form conversation. Three kinds of rooms exist:

• Whole team: one room per team where every member can write.
• Event: one room per calendar event, visible only to those who have RSVP'd attending.
• Hunt: a room created automatically when a live hunt starts. If the hunt is linked to an event, everyone who RSVP'd can read and write; otherwise only those who joined the hunt itself. The room stays after the hunt ends so you can talk about it afterwards.

Use the team room for general questions and news; use an event or hunt room for logistics around the hunt itself (meet time, who brings the dog, gate codes, etc).

Send a message

1. Tap Chat on the home screen
2. Pick Whole team or an event you're attending
3. Type in the text field and tap the orange send button
4. To attach a photo: tap the image icon and pick Take photo to capture one directly or Choose from library for an image you already have. Wait for the upload to finish before sending

Messages are shown in chronological order with the newest at the bottom.

Reply to a message

Long-press a message to open the action menu. Pick Reply. The quoted message appears above the text field. Tap the X icon to cancel.

Edit your own message

You can edit your own messages within 15 minutes of posting. Long-press, pick Edit, adjust the text, save. Edited messages are tagged "edited".

Delete a message

You can delete your own messages within 60 minutes. Long-press, pick Delete. Deleted messages display as "[message deleted]" for everyone in the room.

Requires administrator role

Secretaries and team leads can delete any message regardless of age.

Room info

Tap the room title or the info icon in the header to open Chat info. It shows:

• Room kind: team chat or event chat
• Event details (event rooms only): title, date, and time
• Participants: everyone with access to the room, with profile picture, team role and, for event rooms, attending status

Useful for quickly checking who is actually RSVP'd to a hunt without jumping back to the calendar.

Tag teammates and places with @

Type @ in the text field to open a list. Search for:

• a teammate (you can only tag people on the same team)
• a place on the map (passes, towers, parking, cameras, salt licks, and more)
• an area or a line on the map (sub-areas, boundaries, trails)

Tap the name in the list to insert the tag. It appears as an orange button inside the message.

When someone receives the message:

• Tagging a person sends them a "X mentioned you" push notification
• Tapping a place tag opens the map and zooms to that feature
• Tapping a person tag opens their profile

If a place is later deleted, the tag turns grey and is no longer tappable.

Notifications

You get a push notification when someone posts in a room you have access to, unless you're already viewing the same room. You can mute notifications separately for the team room and event rooms under Profile → Notifications, the Chat, whole team and Chat, activity categories.

If you're tagged with @ in a message you also get a "X mentioned you" push notification, even when the room's regular notifications are off. Tagging yourself does not send a notification.

The room list

The team room and any in-progress hunt rooms sit at the top. Event rooms and ended hunt rooms are grouped by month under a collapsible heading. The current month is open by default. Tap the heading to expand or collapse a month.

Unread

Unread rooms appear with an orange edge and a counter in the list. When a month is collapsed, a summed counter shows next to the month heading. The counter clears when you open the room and scroll to the bottom.

Limits

• Max 4 photos per message
• Max 10 MB per photo (JPG, PNG, HEIC, WebP)
• Max 4000 characters per message
• Search is not in the first release

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See also: Notice Board, Calendar, Profile and Settings