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Effective today (November 19, 2025), Chat guidelines will be displayed to users upon entering a Chat room. As previously announced, Chat room owners have the option to establish room-specific guidelines.

  • A modal with general chat onboarding information, and links to the Chat FAQ and network Code of Conduct. A user will need to check the box in order to proceed. This modal will be labeled according to whatever Stack Exchange site the chat room is parented to.

  • If room-specific guidelines are established, a second modal will appear detailing those. A user will need to acknowledge the individual guidelines before being able to proceed.

  • The modals will display upon a user’s first entry into the Chat room (after today’s release). The guidelines can be accessed at any time from the Chat room’s info area. When accessed that way, only the specific room’s guidelines are displayed.

Please see the previous post for details about how the modals look and how room-specific guidelines can be set up and accessed. Please answer or comment below with questions or feedback about the new onboarding experience.

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  • thank you for the scrollbar :) it came in handy Commented 2 days ago
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    So... was any of the feedback given in the answers to the prior post implemented? Since there hasn't been an update to the post and none are noted here, I'm assuming they were not... so I'm curious why that is (if it is the case). There was a lot of valuable commentary in answers/comments on that post so if none of the changes were made and no explanations about why are provided, I'm not quite sure why we should answer or comment with feedback when you didn't use - or even recognize - the feedback we've already given? Commented yesterday
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    Ah, I see a slight change indicating generally that some of the feedback will be incorporated in the coming weeks - but you don't say which, so, again... how do we know which things we should mention to you if we have no clue which things you're already planning to implement? Commented yesterday

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The bot check seems to have locked me out of all chat rooms across all networks on all devices. The dialogue does not proceed past the screencap below even after many minutes of waiting.

Not a robot?

This occurred after successfully chatting for part of the morning. I assume it is related to this broader update.

Logging out & back in did not clear the issue; however rebooting my laptop did. Presumably clearing cookies may also have worked.

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  • Reloading got rid of it, at least for me. Trying to send another message brings it back up though. Commented yesterday
  • Same here, have not been able to get past it but I have not tried any extreme measures. Commented yesterday
  • In one room, a "hard" reload let me chat again. Commented yesterday
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    Yeah this was only (accidentally) alive for a few minutes. See my answer on this bug report. Commented yesterday
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    Imagine the chaos if this affected Charcoal and lasted a while... Commented yesterday
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Similar to Snow's answer, this doesn't work on the Challenge Accepted room, and instead gives the entirely wrong information about Stack Overflow Lobby:

generic Lobby modal

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I don't know if it's related to the latest release to chat or not, but for some reason when clicking on messages in mobile all the tools aren't appearing. See the below image;

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You can see here that the top bar shows no icons, however it should look more like this (which I got after refreshing a couple of times), with different icons for different actions:

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This can occur on both my own messages, and others. Deleted messages, however, seem to always work; I get the link icon. Once the bug starts appearing, it is impossible for me to interact with any messages without refreshing.

The fact that this has never happened before, and I've encountered it multiple times after a release to chat, seems a little too coincidental to me.

This is occuring on Firefox 145.0.1 on Android 16. I do have userscripts enabled, however, I have disabled those and been able to replicate, so they aren't causing the issue.

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    We'll be taking a look at this, thank you for the detailed report. Commented 13 hours ago
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This doesn't seem to be working for me, particularly in the SE Lobby room which has guidelines set up.

I created a new user and entered chat via the side bar and was greeted with this (note "This room has no set topic").

lobby entry text

On clicking "Let's get started", I am free to chat as a 1 rep user.

Edit: Perhaps the guidelines have been rolled back as part of this regression issue:

Can't create new chat rooms

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There is either a period or a semi-colon missing for this sentence:

Here are a few important things to know about chat on Stack Exchange before getting started

in the dialog that was shown to me the first time I visited a room on each of the three chat servers

dialog with circle indicating the missing punctuation

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    The right choice would be a colon; a semicolon isn't the right fit here. Commented yesterday
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    @V2Blast English punctuation terminology is extremely confusing. In Dutch, they're called as written: a "double point" and a "point comma". In what universe is : twice as much as ; (or the other way around)? But thanks for the correction! Commented yesterday
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Feedback: stop pelting us with modals.

The "Welcome to JavaScript" modal in the JavaScript room listing the room's rules.

What is wrong in the picture above? Maybe let us start with me being fairly familiar with chat, having only used it for years. And the JavaScript rooms is one of the first I have consistently been in for that time.

Next, I am a room owner of the JavaScript room.

And yet, I had to go through two dialogs and tick off each rule just to be able to access it.

By complete coincidence, as I was writing this post, another room owner (from a different room) was surprised by the popup. I will just quote their reaction, since it could not be more on-point:

wtf is this popup ew

They only got the first one, since their room does not have any room rules defined.

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  • Its a good way as a RO/mod to... know if the models are working Commented 4 hours ago

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