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Mattermost - Read Only channel
For the moment, when this option "ExperimentalTownSquareIsReadOnly" is set to true, all the Town Square channels of all the teams become read-only.
It will great to set up this option not globally, but at the team level and not only on the "Town Square" channel but on any public channel.
6 votesThank you for nominating the feature! It is now available in Mattermost v5.22.0 in Enterprise Edition E20 (Beta).
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make threads collapsible
A toggle option so that threads appear as "N comments" and open in the side-panel, so they do not interrupt the main flow of the channel, and you can follow each thread mode easily.
2,572 votesWe’re very excited to share that we’ve begun design work on this project and are currently testing prototypes with the Mattermost community and some customers, with development starting soon after. We will be rolling out the threading changes in stages, starting with an experimental configuration setting that can be enabled by System Admins.
If you haven’t already, we encourage joining the Folded Reply Threads channel (https://community.mattermost.com/core/channels/folded-reply-threads) on our community server as we share progress updates and gather feedback.
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Add ability to move mistaken thread replies in a channel to the intended thread
If a user misses replying to a thread in a channel and instead replies directly to the channel, this message is not part of the thread that it was intended to be and the conversation is not clear.
There should be a way for a user or channel admin to move a message to the intended thread inside the channel and keep it inline with the on-going threaded conversation (since everything is timestamped this seems possible).
This would clean up the conversations and mistakes that users will make.
98 votesWork on this feature has begun! Big thanks to @kkekkonen for starting the effort.
If anyone would be interested testing it, you can help out here: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/pull/9165
PS: Previous update incorrectly mentioned that this an Enterprise Edition feature.
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JIRA improvements
Add to jira plugin features to notify about new comments, description changes, attachments changes in a ticket.
132 votesThe status of this feature can be followed via this Jira ticket: https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-12474.
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MSI installer for windows client
We need a MSI file for automated (silent) installation. That way you can deploy the application with the group policy of windows.
105 votesWork for an MSI has begun! If anyone is interested contributing or testing the installer, let us know here: https://github.com/wget/mattermost-desktop-msi-rd
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Possibility to load more messages after the search result
- Seacrh a message
- Jump to the result
- You have possibility to load more messages before the result but not after it
39 votesThanks for the feature idea! This is now in progress and scheduled for an upcoming release: https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-9708
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Support different options for sorting the channels in the sidebar
Now the contacts (Direct messages) are always sorted alphabetically. It would be great to have different options of sorting. What we like the most is sorting by last message recieved/sent, which means on top we always have our most recent conversation (like in Skype)
Any chance to have it in future?850 votesHere’s more information on what options are currently offered: https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/config-settings.html#experimental-sidebar-features-experimental.
Note that this is currently experimental and the settings must first be enabled by a System Admin.
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Add a Tablet / iPad version of Second Generation Mobile Apps
The second generation mobile apps currently are not designed to support tablets.
(See https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-mobile/issues/670)
If you would like to see tablet / iPad support, please help upvote this feature idea so we can track the demand for it.
150 votesBeta support for tablet/iPad was added in v1.3
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allow admins to set the default channels when a member joins
It was nice in Slack to say for the batch of invitees that have been recently invited that they be thrown into channels x, y, z instead of having to manually Add Member to varying channels or ask them to seek out channels and add themselves.
113 votesHey all! The work has now started and we’ve released an experimental setting for default channels.
System Admins can configure default channels via config.json, here is more information about it https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/config-settings.html#default-channels-experimental
Big thanks to @dschalla for contributing this improvement!
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Add option to set multi-team team or server-wide display defaults
Add an option to allow changing of the default "Display" settings from the System Console. (E.g set Theme & Teammate Name default "Display" settings globally).
147 votesThank you for this feature idea! We have started to work on this feature.
Also note that we have experimental system-wide default theme settings: https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/config-settings.html#theme-settings-experimental.
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Add custom user groups for mentions
Add cusom user groups for mentions. Something like @developers or @frontend to mention all members of group in this channel. Also it would be useful for large teams, when novices does not know who is who - with this feature they can determinate at least group
457 votesHere’s a plugin that can be used: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-plugin-autolink.
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Server facilitated encryption of database contents
This feature proposal is for the ability to encrypt posts/direct messages in the database, with a server-side encryption of the database contents.
513 votesHey all, we’ve outlined available encryption options here: https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/encryption.html
Would love to hear feedback from everyone who contributed to this feature proposal!
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Polls (like doodle or for decision making)
Creating and participating in Polls would be great,
to be embedded within a message.
Like in Doodle, Facebook or Threema:Option | User1 | User2 | ...
Coke | x | |
Sprite | x | x |
...OR
Option | Votes
Coke | 3/15 Users
Sprite | 2/15 Users
...695 votesHey all! We have a polls plugins created by Hanzei and Yusuke:
https://github.com/matterpoll/matterpoll
It is easy to install and let’s you create quick polls with a /poll command.
If there is any feedback on the polls plugin, let us know!
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Display most recent conversations on top
On the sidebar, it would be useful if the most recent conversations were displayed on top. As for now I have to delete channels so I dont have to scroll all day long.
202 votesThis setting is available under Sidebar > Channel sorting: https://docs.mattermost.com/help/settings/account-settings.html#sidebar.
Note that these settings must first be enabled by the System Admin.
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Add write policy for channels and private groups
This feature is essentially a "force mute" in a meeting room, when you want to enable some people to listen in, but not to speak.
- Add an option to restrict the ability to post to a channel or private group (requires channel header menu redesign--the menu is over the UX guideline of 5-7 options per menu)
- Add the ability to define users who have the ability to post, which would by default include Team Admins. We don't currently have UX for a channel owner or channel creator, but in future Enterprise releases this may be added
- Include UX so that…
345 votesThank you for nominating the feature! Ready-only channels feature is now available in Mattermost v5.22.0 in Enterprise Edition E20 (Beta).
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Video/Audio/Screenshare feature
Add feature to make video/audio calls (personal/group)
902 votesHere’s more details about what is available today: https://docs.mattermost.com/deployment/video-and-audio-calling.html.
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Add auto-link functionality, e.g. to create links to bug tracker
It would be really useful if when a message contained text such as "blah blah blah bug 23 blah blah" that the text 'bug 23' was changed into a link to bug 23 in our issue tracker.
This could be handled more generally as a regex replacement that is applied to the message, with the system administrator being able to add multiple such regular expressions. This would allow all kinds of links, e.g. [[wp:Foo]] to link to the Wikipedia article 'Foo'.
The replacement could be applied at the point of save or the point of rendering, but I would recommend…
194 votesHey all! We now have a Beta version of a plugin that supports custom auto-linking.
All feedback is much appreciated as we develop this plugin further.
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Enable omission of message snippets in email notifications
For organizations with advanced compliance requirements, this feature should enable a System Administrator to omit the inclusion of message contents in email notifications.
64 votesThis setting is available in E20: https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/config-settings.html#enable-notification-contents.
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Add a way to spoiler some messages or part of messages
I think it would be a great idea to add spoiler tags like message or message but for spoilers (i.e ^This is a spoil^)
There are several ways to implement this:
-By having an expand/close button for showing/hiding the message
-By having to select the text to see it
-By having to hover on the text with the cursor to see it (might be problematic for touch-based devices)I suggest discussing on what is the best for mattermost.
135 votesFor now, a plugin can be used: https://github.com/moussetc/mattermost-plugin-spoiler.
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EE: Single-Channel Guests for non-team members
For IT policy compliance, offer the ability to invite non-team members users to Mattermost as "single-channel guests" to have access to read and write to one channel and direct message any other users in that channel.
Potential scenarios include opening discussions with non-team members, including customers, vendors, partners and interview candidates.
683 votesThis is now available in Beta in E10 and E20: https://docs.mattermost.com/deployment/guest-accounts.html.
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