Communicate with messages and threads

Available on all plans

Cloud and self-hosted deployments

Sending messages, replying to messages, and participating in conversation threads are important ways to keep conversations active with your team.

Work with messages and threads

Learn more about messages and threads:

• Send messages - Send messages to other Mattermost users.

• Reply to messages - Communicate with your team in Mattermost.

• React with emojis and GIFs - Use emojis and GIFs to react to messages and to express concepts, humor, emotions, and physical gestures in your own messages.

• Organize conversations with Collapsed Reply Threads - An enhanced communication thread experience is available in Mattermost.

• Mark messages as unread - Change messages to an unread state for easy follow-up.

• Forward messages - Quickly and easily forward messages with previews.

• Share links to messages - Share links to messages across channels.

• Save and pin messages - Mark useful messages for easy retrieval in the future.

• Set message reminders - Set reminders to follow up on messages.

• Search for messages - Use search to find messages, replies, and file contents across Mattermost channels.

Make your messages stand out

Learn more about making your messages stand out:

• Format messages - Use markdown to format message content.

• Set message priority - Ensure important and urgent messages stand out clearly by adding priority labels, and requesting message acknowledgements.

• Mention people - Get the attention of specific people.

• Share files in messages - Share videos, voice recordings, and images in your Mattermost messages.