Chat Ability for All Attendees

Hi,

is there a function for attendees to see questions of others and react to them in writing? With the questions tab only I can see questions. I want to have an interactive webinar where attendees can also chat with each other. This would be very helpful. Or is the webinar not the right tool for that?

I agree! even an event with 10 or 20 people the chat is not available to the attendees.  The only way the chat is available to attendees is if you directly send them a message.  Why would GoTo limit this?  

I have used many other webinar platforms and I have always engaged a lot with my attendees, asking them where are you from or various questions to keep them engaged. GoTo doesn't allow this.

Please change this asap!!

It would be rare for us to use this feature.  I can think of many  other wanted features I would prioritize over this one.

Yes, the option must be fully manageable otherwise there is no benefit from it.

But if this is ever put as an option, it must be an option because our group would never use this since we have 500 to 2,000 attendees per webinar and we don't want folks to view who all is on the webinar nor do we want them communicating with others during the education. So, we'd need to be able to disable or turn it off.

Thanks 

This should be prioritized and be available as soon as possible since a lot of customers need it.

2014-2022, 8 Years and no solution !!!!

I am sad to see this thread because it for reasons like this, where GoToWebinar is a great platform missing a few very key features, which has been the case for YEARS, my company moved exclusively to Zoom in 2021.  I miss GoToWebinar's dashboard and reporting because both are far superior to Zoom's.  However, we could no longer afford to provide virtual events with limited participant interaction opportunities other than audio.  Participant video and chat, along with polls and registration, are now standard expectations and GoToWebinar did not keep up with repeated requests for these features.  I was hanging on to G2W until the end of 2020, when it became clear the features we really needed were either very far off in the future or never coming.