Reply to messages

Available on all plans

Cloud and self-hosted deployments

Web/Desktop

Reply to messages by selecting the Reply icon next to the message text.

Mobile

Long press on a message and select Reply or simply tap on it to reply.

Depending on how your system admin has configured Mattermost, you may be able to edit, restore, and delete messages after you’ve sent them.

Tip

It’s easy to return to a message in progress with global message drafts. Find all of your draft messages in the Drafts view available at the top of the channel sidebar. See the draft messages documentation for details.

Organize discussions into threads

When you reply to messages, those replies are organized into a discussion thread. Threaded discussions are easy to follow and allow multiple parallel conversations to occur at the same time without confusion.

Using Mattermost in a web browser or the desktop app, replies appear indented slightly in the center pane to indicate that they are child messages of a parent message. Selecting the reply link opens a sidebar in the right-hand sidebar in a web browser and the desktop app. To expand the right-hand sidebar to its full width, select the Expand icon with two arrows at the top of the sidebar.

To shrink the right-hand sidebar to its original width, select the same Collapse icon.