From Miz:

when a channel is created to be able to specify who you want to include on creation

And making very visible, when composing a message to a channel, who will be notified by nature of their subscription state, and who won’t.

From Sam:

@@John Carroll This is the UI that I think we should implement to see if it solves this problem.

The “Audience” should indicate who will receive the message based on which channels in both the “compose” and all “threads” views:

Let me know if that spec makes sense. We should prioritize it before we do email, since it’s an incremental UI step towards email

If the ThreadView doesn’t have a right sidebar (currently the default and only option), we still want to show the current recipient and subscriber information.

From Chet:

I would add it to the topbar.

“👁 111 people can see this message” near the channels stuff on the left.

“🛎 4 people will be notified” near the subscription stuff on the right.

Then you can hover / click on it to see the full list…

The right sidebar is valuable real-estate and it doesn’t map onto mobile very well. I think getting rid of it will clean things up a bit and bring more focus onto the main content of the page.

Perhaps the right side will eventually be utilized for seeing conversation branches? I say lets keep it open for future potential

For all threads, we should put as many of the recipients as possible in the topbar, not just the channels…