Product December 28, 2024

# What's new in 2024

> The biggest updates to the Pachca team chat app in 2024: a new desktop app, folders, calls and other improvements

Источник: https://pachca.com/en/blog/chto-novenkogo-v-2024

## Everything we added to Pachca in 2024

By Yulia Dekina

![What's new in 2024](https://pachca.com/blog/chto-novenkogo-v-2024.webp)

2024 was a pretty packed year, both for our users and for us. We shipped more than 2,000 changes, big and small, and the number of chats in Pachca grew by 41%. But there's still plenty of room to grow!

For now, let's look back at the biggest updates of the year.

### **1\. A new desktop app**

The new version can do a lot more. Pachca now:

- wakes up from sleep instantly
- supports back/forward navigation between windows
- works through a proxy
- updates reliably, even on Linux

It also added:

- launch at startup
- cache clearing
- a built-in file downloader

### **2\. Multiple workspaces and switching between them**

You can link up to 10 workspaces to one email address. Your available workspaces show up in the lobby. That's handy if you use Pachca for both online courses and work.

![Lobby with several workspaces](https://pachca.com/blog/chto-novenkogo-v-2024-1761735082217-mmvxi.png)

### **3\. The Members section**

This section lists every member of the workspace. You can view them in two ways:

- as cards, which work well for finding colleagues
- as a table, like in the screenshot, which works well for admin tasks and searching by specific fields. There are both standard and custom fields.

Click a member to open their full profile. You can jump to a chat with them right from their profile with the **Send message** button.

This is also where you add new members to the workspace.

![Members section in table view](https://pachca.com/blog/chto-novenkogo-v-2024-1761735083372-hs93cs.png)

### **4\. A free role: Guest**

A new role in Pachca. A free Guest has access to only one chat, and they can't leave it on their own. They can't create or view other chats or use global search and other features. Companies usually invite contractors or clients as Guests.

Note that the number of free Guests is limited: you can add up to three of them per paid member.

### **5\. The Drafts section**

Every message you've written but haven't sent yet is saved here, with links and formatting intact. With this section, you can:

- save work-in-progress versions of messages
- come back to messages later to edit or send them

![Drafts section with unsent messages](https://pachca.com/blog/chto-novenkogo-v-2024-1761735084442-xua10bh.png)

### **6\. Scheduled messages**

You can schedule a message to go out at any time you choose. That makes it easy to stay in sync with colleagues in other time zones, set quick reminders for yourself or share important news.

Note: the message will be sent at the time you set, based on your device's time zone.

All scheduled messages live in the **Drafts** section, on a separate **Scheduled** tab. There you can change the send date and time or delete the message altogether.

![Setting the send time for a scheduled message](https://pachca.com/blog/chto-novenkogo-v-2024-1761735086540-0jge5f.png)

### **7\. Office document previews**

On the web and desktop, you can open PDF, docx, xlsx and pptx files right in the chat. No need to download them to your device.

### **8\. A new design for message attachments**

![New design for message attachments](https://pachca.com/blog/chto-novenkogo-v-2024-1761735087991-ycyw9g.png)

### **9\. Google Calendar integration**

This integration syncs tasks, calendar events and your status in Pachca. So if you have an event scheduled in your calendar, Pachca picks it up and sets your status to **In a meeting**.

It works the other way too. All tasks you create in Pachca show up in Google Calendar. And if you create a task from a chat and set its type to **Call**, the calendar event will include a link to a Pachca video call.

### **10\. Bot buttons**

You can create bots with URL buttons for links and data buttons for collecting input from users. Buttons make it easy to run polls, review training applications or respond to client inquiries.

![Bot message with reply buttons](https://pachca.com/blog/chto-novenkogo-v-2024-1761735089434-4v5rkf.png)

### **11\. Unfurl, or link previews**

Here's how Unfurl works in Pachca:

- a workspace administrator creates an Unfurl bot
- the bot gets a webhook when someone sends a message with a link
- a public API method creates the link preview

See the [full instructions](https://dev.pachca.com/guides/link-previews).

So when a user sends a link to a chat, Unfurl shows a preview of what's behind it, including the title, description and image.

![Grafana link preview in a chat](https://pachca.com/blog/chto-novenkogo-v-2024-1761735090162-s2ciqt.png)

### **12\. Forwarding messages with the original author and source chat**

![Forwarded message showing the author and source chat](https://pachca.com/blog/chto-novenkogo-v-2024-1761735091114-7zbrff.png)

### **13\. Custom reactions**

Workspace settings now have an **Emoji** section. It shows the custom emoji you've already added, and you can create your own there too.

For now, custom emoji can only be used as reactions to messages. We plan to support them in message text later.

Limit: 300 custom emoji per workspace.

![Custom emoji reactions under a message](https://pachca.com/blog/chto-novenkogo-v-2024-1761735092469-m6few4.png)

And that's far from everything. We kept improving cross-chat threads, global search, tags and bots. We fixed bugs and added API methods. And of course, we worked on making the interface clean and easy to use :)

Let's keep growing together! Happy 2025.

With love, Pachca