We’re excited to release a feature we’ve heard many requests for (and have wanted ourselves for a while): status messages. If you use the web version or update to the latest client, you’ll see a small UI addition in your Lobby. Now, you can let everyone know whether you’re available, away, or don’t want to be disturbed. Just click the dropdown below your name in the Lobby to set your status:

Set status UI

Once you’ve chosen a status, you can also add a short message to go with it:

Status messages

For our advanced users (or anyone who just prefers the keyboard), you can also use slash commands to set your status, just type /away and then your message (we support /available, /back, /here, /away, and /dnd):

Slash commands

Enjoy! As always, send any feedback to support@hipchat.com or post a message at help.hipchat.com