Disable notifications and alerts for a given chatroom to reduce the noise while maintaining visibility into different chatrooms.
You can mute a chat by:
1) Hover over a chat on left panel and click ellipsis for options (Figure 1)
Figure 1. Hover on a chat on the left panel and click on the Ellipsis for options
2) Select "Mute" to disable notifications for the chat (Figure 2)
Figure 2. Select Mute option to disable notifications