Unable to Create a "General" Channel from Scratch in Teams Desktop

Hi @Shajia,

It is indeed a big bug as we have been accustomed to having a General channel and I personally like that name, specially for teams with just one channel. Also it forces you to think up a name for each teams's first channel and you end up naming it General1 or General_.

I'd like to point out that the problem affects not only Teams Desktop but also Teams web.

Thank you for solving it ASAP.

Josu

Also I just ran a test where I used General1 as the 1st channel name. Then I created a second channel named Alphabet Street. And yup, you guessed it....the General 1 channel dropped to the bottom. So not only can we not use General as the name for the 1st channel....it will no longer be the cream that rises to the top automatically. That sucks! Sure you can pin the channel but that adds it to the very top above all channels but does nothing for the order within the Team itself. Hey....want another interesting observation? When you go into the 1st channel to manage things....it still says "General" even though you renamed it. This is wild. Having said all of that....we can still get the general channel and that cream rising to the top scenario, if we use the admin center to create the team.

This is incomprehensible. And a multi-month fix to change a channel name? It may seem minor - but we have lots of existing Teams that use General - not gonna change nomenclature now.

I have already created the Team, and deleting and starting anew appears to take 30 days while I wait on the email address from deleted group to be purged so I can can re-use the current email address. That is also preposterous.

The forced non-General channel created is "Main" - is acting as General - it even said when I intended to change it that IF I changed FROM "General" I won't be able to change it back.

Need ability to have one General folder that is located at top of channel for every Team.

Thank you for prompt attention.

A super easy fix - add another word to the channel name

General Talk

General Chat

General Conversation

General whatever....

This is a rubbish fix as it misses the whole point.

As a workarround, if you happen to be a Teams admin, you can still create new teams from the Teams admin panel. The first channel will be created automatically without any questions and guess what, it will be called General.

Hope this helps