Disable Chat?

[fantapop]

Does anyone know of an easy way to disable the chat functionality in nodebb?

[julian]

No, but only because nobody asked to do so before

Any particular reason why?

[psychobunny]

You could modify the templates to remove all the chat related buttons, there are a few ex. topic.tpl/account.tpl/header.tpl to name the ones of the top of my head. We never considered having a "disable chat" button but may change our minds if there's significant demand

[delc82]

I believe this option should be there. For example, I'm loading Nodebb inside our webapp and we already have a chat so we need NodeBB' chat disabled and we do not know how to do that.

Besides, more options the better right?

[julian]

One could make the case for chat being a standalone plugin in and of itself. It could be considered an extraneous feature

[zenkamal]

@julian

No way Jose! Plugins sometimes break with NodeBB updates and have to be disabled for a while. Chat is toooooo important imho.

[delc82]

I think this option should be right in NodeBB and not from a plugin.

[ScottL]

I agree, having an option to disable the chat would be ideal or at least give each user the option to disable chats sent to them. Ideally, both options would exist.

[a_5mith]

@ScottL setting yourself as offline in the drop down does just this, doesn't it?

[ScottL]

@a_5mith I guess I learn something every day.

[babaggeii]

@julian Hi Julian, I would love this feature as we are running nodebb with a school and we require control over what's posted on the forum - i.e. no private messaging.

[psychobunny]

but may change our minds if there's significant demand

one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party.

We'll get this party started at some point in 0.5x:

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/1990

psychobunny created this issue in NodeBB/NodeBB

closed Ability to disable chat #1990

[Silvina]

I am voting for this too, the ability to disable chat, either site wide or usergroups wide

[Babamala]

Hi guys!

First post here. Great community & product here!

I am in the same case as the people above asking for the option to disable chat, for the same reasons : inside a network where chat is already present.

If the feature doesn't exist yet, can we, like I read, hide the chat button or remove some stuff to make it disappear ?

Thanks in advance!!

[Bri]

@Babamala There's the option to disable chat at the bottom of the Settings > General tab in the Admin Control Panel

[Babamala]

@BDHarrington7 Greaaaat!
Thank you very much for the fast answer.