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Chat overview - conversations, direct messages and groups

Where chat lives, how a direct message differs from a group, and what a Free account can read.

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Written by Maab Saleem

Chat is where you message a player or a squad without leaving Scoryboard. This article shows you the screen and tells you what Free covers.

Finding your chats

  1. Open Chat in the sidebar. The screen has three parts: the sidebar, your Chats list, and the conversation you have open.

    The Chat page with a group conversation open, showing the sidebar, the Chats list and the transcript.

  2. Read a row in the Chats list to see who it is with, the last message and when it arrived. A group also carries a Group tag.

    One row of the Chats list, with the Group tag outlined.

Chat opens your most recent conversation on its own. Select any other row to switch.

Direct messages and groups

  1. A conversation with one person is a direct message. The line under their name says Direct message.

    A direct conversation with Milo KB, the header outlined and reading Direct message.

  2. A conversation with several people is a group. The line under its name says Group conversation, and the transcript opens with who created the group and who joined it.

    A group conversation, the header outlined and reading Group conversation, with the created and joined lines below it.

What you will see

Your own messages sit on the right. Everybody else's sit on the left with their name above them. A tick beside your message means it was sent.

Chat on the Free plan

On Free you can start a conversation, create a group and send as many messages as you like. What you cannot do is read what other people send you in full.

  1. An incoming message shows its first few characters and then stops. An Unlock with Pro button sits under it. Your own messages are always whole.

    A group transcript on a Free account. Every incoming message is cut short with an Unlock with Pro button under it, while the reader's own message is complete.

  2. Select Unlock with Pro to see what Pro adds.

    The Unlock full chat with Pro window, explaining that reading full incoming messages and opening attachments are Pro features.

Pro is free during the beta. Nothing is charged for it.

If it does not work

  • Every message is cut short. You are on Free. See the section above.

  • A message will not send. Check your connection. Chat updates live, so a message that has not appeared has not reached us.

  • A conversation is missing. You may have removed it from your list. It comes back on its own when a new message arrives in it.

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