DM the members of a group

[gnprice]

In the Zulip web client, when composing a DM and choosing the recipients, you can type the name of a user group (with autocomplete), and it will expand to all the members of the group.

For example, a community may have a "moderators" group, and encourage users to use this feature to contact all the moderators. That enables users to easily contact (a) all the moderators, not just one, (b) without having to somehow look up, or already know, who the moderators are.

This is a useful feature, and we should have it too. It doesn't appear to be documented in the Help Center:
https://zulip.com/help/starting-a-new-direct-message

Prerequisite issue:

• Support starting a new DM conversation #127

[alya]

Documented briefly here: https://zulip.com/help/user-groups

[alya]

PR to document it on the page linked in the description: zulip/zulip#30093