Rocket.Chat discussions allow you to have a separate conversation about larger topics in a team or channel. Use discussions to address specific topics and their related conversations. They are displayed under the Discussions section of the sidebar. They are identified by 
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{% hint style="info" %} Discussions must belong to a parent team or channel. {% endhint %}
For example, you have an Engineering-Team in your workspace and created a channel under that team called Website-Development-Channel. Let's break down the conversations about each feature of the website into discussions. Now, you can have a Website-Landing-Page discussion where all the conversations about the landing page occur.
The room information screen gives detailed information about the current discussion. These details include:
- Name: The name of the discussion, how users see the title and find the discussion via search.
- Description: The description of the discussion.
- Announcement: Announcements post in a bar under the discussion header.
- Topic: The topic here is next to the channel header's title. It shows which channel or group the discussion is linked to.
- Private: When enabled, makes the discussion private.
- Read Only: Tells whether a discussion is read-only and toggles the read-only status on the discussion. In read-only discussions, only people with admin permissions can post messages.
- Archived: Enable to archive a discussion. Nobody can post messages in an archived discussion, and searching will not find the discussion.
- Password: Tells whether a discussion is protected with a password. The password is required before joining the discussion.