Posting to the channel chat

Each calendar with a Telegram channel wired up gets a 💬 chat panel at the bottom of its section on /coach/today. You can read the last 48 hours of channel posts there, and send a new one without leaving the page.

Screenshot: chat panel with post form

When to use this

• “Weather report: blizzard, we’ll be in the lodge.”
• “Lift 6 is broken, meet at base instead.”
• One-off broadcasts where you want every family in the channel to see it fast.

For an event-specific message (e.g. “Practice canceled tonight”), edit the event itself (cancel / time change / coach note) — those auto-post to the channel AND push to phones. Channel chat here is for ad-hoc broadcasts.

How to post

1. Scroll to the chat panel for the calendar you want to reach.
2. Type the message (free text, no template required).
3. Tap Post to channel.

The post appears within a second in:

• The Telegram channel itself (anyone subscribed sees it).
• The chat panel on every family page (within the channel’s calendar).
• A phone push to every family with push enabled on that calendar.

What people see

The notification body is your message text trimmed to ~240 chars. The title shows your name (and the channel) so families know who posted.

Don’t do this

• Don’t paste personally identifying info — Telegram channels are group-visible.
• Don’t post anything you wouldn’t want screenshotted; Telegram users can save messages.

Follow-ups

Channels are admin-broadcast — only you and other coaches/admins can post. Parents can’t comment on a channel post. If you want a parent to get a follow-up, post a new message in the channel (every family with push enabled sees it) or message them directly.

Parents reach the coach by tapping a quick-message template on an event card (“Out sick”, “Running late”); those land in your Telegram DMs and on the event card, not in the broadcast channel.