Chat console

From most screens in osu! you can press F8 or click the Show Chat button on the lower right to overlay the Chat Console on the lower third of the screen.

Chat Console

• The tabs list the currently available channels. Simply click on a tab to move to that channel. Click the yellow plus button to display a list of new channels to join.
• The colours of the user names mean different things.

• Click the Show Ticker box to display the newest chat message at the bottom of the screen when the chat console is not visible.
• Click the Auto-Hide box to automatically hide the chat during gameplay (excluding beatmap intro, outro and breaks).
• Click the Hide Chat box or press F8 again to hide the chat console.

Extended Chat Console

osu!academy covered this page in Episode 6 (6:52) along with Multiplayer.

From most screens in osu! you can press F9 or click the Online Users button at the lower right of the Intro Screen to toggle the Extended Chat Console. In addition to the Chat Console, Extended Chat overlays a list of panels in the remaining two thirds of the screen, displaying information on the users currently signed in to osu!

Extended chat console

Each user signed in to osu! has a user panel displayed in Extended Chat. By default, it displays general information (name, total ranked score, rank, accuracy, play count and the user's avatar, if any). When the mouse cursor is placed over it, it displays a different set of information (name, rank, avatar if any, local time, time zone, location by country and, if allowed by the user, city, and what they are doing).

• Friends only limits the display to your friends.
• Lock Panels stops the panels from jumping round this also includes new users.
• Click on a tab to sort user panels according to that attribute.
• Click on the world map to display a world map that shows where everyone is.
• You can click and drag on the white box to scroll, you can also use the mouse wheel.
• Users without stats in their panels are connected to chat using their IRC clients.

Panel colour	Description
	Dark Blue - Player is currently idle or not doing anything or just chatting.
	Grey - Playing a beatmap in solo.
	Light Blue - Watching a replay or spectating someone.
	Red - Editing their own beatmap.
	Purple - Test playing a beatmap in the editor.
	Turquoise - Submitting (either uploading or updating) the beatmap that they have made.
	Green - Modding or editing someone else's beatmap.
	Brown - User is in multiplayer, but not playing.
	Yellow - Currently playing in multiplayer.
	Black - Inactive or away from keyboard (afk).
	Dark Blue without content - Player is not in-game, but signed in to an IRC client or stats are not available.

Clicking on any user panel brings up an options screen.

User panel options

Press the number or click the bar to activate:

1. Start Spectating: If the user is playing a beatmap and you have the beatmap, you can watch them while they play. Your name will be in their Spectators list.
2. View Profile: Opens the player profile webpage in your browser.
3. Start Chat: Opens a private chat tab with the user.
4. Invite to game: (If you are in the Multi room) Request the user to come to your room.
5. Add (Remove) as Friend: Adds (Removes) the user at your friends list
6. Report User: Report the user for misbehaviour. Should never be used unless stated otherwise. You can report a user in-game for a number of things, but also on the web, like the forums.
7. Ignore User: Any chat entry by the user will not appear in your chat console.
8. Close: Closes the panel.

Commands list

/help

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