Creating and sharing engaging content that fosters genuine connection is the core of the Towns experience. So we made the messaging experience super intuitive. This guide will help you understand the different ways you can talk and hang out in Towns and explain some of the messaging nuances you may encounter. In case it needs to be reiterated — every message sent in Towns is end-to-end encrypted.
So go on and talk in private.
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*In this article we cover channel-specific permissions. For read/write/react entitlements on the Town membership level, check out Joining Existing Towns.
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Messages in Towns are end to end encrypted. This means that only the members of a channel in a town hold the keys to reading messages.
Because the system of encryption involves exchanging of keys, there may be some delay until you are able to read messages, so you might see something like this:
How to fix this?
If none of the above fixes your issue, please file a bug report. In the iOS app, you can shake your phone to report. In the web, you can click on the ladybug icon in the top right corner of your screen.
Towns has a few ways to organize and send messages: