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Update November 19, 2025

The new Chat room onboarding modals are now in operation, with room-specific guidelines displayed upon room entry.

Some of the feedback and suggestions from this post will be incorporated in the coming weeks.

• Chat room owners can now establish guidelines for specific chat rooms
• Guidelines will display in conjunction with the site Code of Conduct
• This is also a great time to review and update Chat room descriptions
• Chat room owners are being notified about this update this week, so rooms can be ready for the release of new Chat onboarding modals in mid-November (Nov 19).

As part of ongoing work to improve the Chat experience on Stack Exchange, it’s now possible to establish guidelines for specific chat rooms. In mid-November, the guidelines will start being shown to users who enter a Chat room.

• Chat room owners can now establish guidelines for specific chat rooms
• Guidelines will display in conjunction with the site Code of Conduct
• This is also a great time to review and update Chat room descriptions
• Chat room owners are being notified about this update this week, so rooms can be ready for the release of new Chat onboarding modals in mid-November (Nov 19)

As part of ongoing work to improve the Chat experience on Stack Exchange, it’s now possible to establish guidelines for specific chat rooms. In mid-November, the guidelines will start being shown to users who enter a Chat room.

Note: Diamond moderators are considered room owners for the platform they're a moderator for (Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange, Stack Exchange Meta) and therefore have access to all room owner functionality, even if they're not explicitly set as room owners. So, all mentions of "room owner" in this post also extends to diamond moderators.