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Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Teams for business | Chats | Group chats
Conversations involving multiple participants, allowing collaboration and information sharing in Teams
I've found that how far you have to zoom in to make that chat panel auto hide THE WAY IT SHOULD depends on how large your Teams window itself is sized on your screen. If I drag the corner out to make the Teams window larger, I have to zoom in farther to get the chat panel to auto hide. Don't get me wrong, the chat panel has its purpose, but I DON'T NEED IT PLUGGING UP HALF MY TEAMS WINDOW AT ALL FRIGGIN' TIMES!! By no means is this a permanent solution or one that isn't annoying in its own right, but I really need to not have the actual chats that I'm trying to read reduced the point that I have to scroll anytime somebody says something longer than "good morning".
To whoever made this decision for the whole friggin' planet about whether or not we are allowed to have auto hide on our chat panel, please fix this very soon. You have effectively made a decision that was not yours to make. Stop being like that. I understand that pretty much all software is continually becoming less and less customizable and that this makes the programmers' jobs easier, but this was working appropriately for me yesterday and now it's not, and that's not okay.