Channels

Group vs dynamic channels

1. Use group channels to link together the users, who often need to talk to each other. A good example is departments or work groups. A user can only see the contacts, sharing at least one group channel with him.
2. If you want to take advantage of a group channel to exchange contacts within a group but don't want to enable one-to-many communication with that group use hidden group channel.
3. Use dynamic channels to create topic channels, where users can join and leave dynamically. Typical examples are company-wide news channel, emergency channel, project-focused channels.
4. Since all users in a group channels are added to the contacts of each other the practical maximum number of users per group channel is about 100.
5. Dynamic channels could easily handle all users in your network and don't have strong limits on the number of users connected.
6. A user can connect and disconnect from dynamic channels in real-time using the client app. This is not possible with the group channels.