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New plugin hook to preproceses/format posts
I tried to implement a plugin which supports spoilers and moderated posts.
To achieve his would require me to process or format the post when it is being rendered.
3 votesThank you for the proosal! In fact, web app plugins can render different post components based on the post’s type. Any time the web app encounters a post with this post type, it replaces the default rendering of the post component with your own custom implementation.
This allows you to create a custom format for posts.
https://developers.mattermost.com/extend/plugins/webapp/#custom-post-type-components
Let us know if there is further functionality you’re looking for from the feature?
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Eliminate 4000 character per message (message length)
Currently I can't create messages with more than 4000 characters. This limit should be removed.
158 votesThank you for nominating the feature! It is now available in Mattermost 5.0!
New installs of Mattermost v5.0 and later allow up to 16383 characters per post. Instances of Mattermost installed earlier than v5.0 will need to update to v5.0 or later and then run a manual database migration in order to utilize the higher character limit. This migration can be slow for large Posts tables, so it’s best to schedule this during off-peak hours. See important upgrade notes (https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/important-upgrade-notes.html) for more details.
To migrate a MySQL database, connect to your database and run the following:
ALTER TABLE Posts MODIFY COLUMN Message TEXT;
To migrate a PostgreSQL database, connect to your database and run the following:
ALTER TABLE Posts ALTER COLUMN Message TYPE VARCHAR;
Restart your Mattermost instances.
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Member list on side of chat window w/ status indicator
Show a member list on the side of the chat window listing all the users that are in the current room, sorted by status and then name (so that logged out users are at the bottom).
This seems critical to communication .. who's in the room, who's online, who am I talking to, am I in the right room before typing @everyone, etc. At a glance. The little member button with drop down is insufficient especially in rooms with hundreds of people.
Screenshot from Slack: http://take.ms/YhtK8
19 votesThanks everyone for the feedback!
We’ve now added a status icon in the channel member list (clicking the member icon in the channel header) and sorted it by user status.
This improvement is supported in Mattermost v4.7.0 and later.
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Make notification emails multipart (plain-text friendly)
The notification emails are HTML only, which is a pain when you read your mails in plain-text mode (or if you use, say, mutt).
The mails should be multipart : a plain-text version and a HTML one.
26 votesThis feature is complete and shipped with v4.2
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Away status
Mark user as away if there is no activity for more than 15 minutes.
An /away command would be nice as well.34 votesAway status is now available on master, set to 5 minutes. If anyone is interested in implementing the /away slash command or making the away duration configurable please reply here and we can open a ticket?
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Add a file download progress bar
You constantly need to check Explorer to see if file has finished downloaded or not, very bothersome. A progress bar / download indicator will be very helpful.
20 votesThis feature is completed and available in v5.6 release!
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Interactive Message Dropdowns
I really like the interaction message buttons!
https://docs.mattermost.com/developer/interactive-message-buttons.htmlI am trying to clone the /remind functionality in Slack into Mattermost, and the button interactions are working well, but the 'Snooze' dropdown button does not have an equivalent in Mattermost. (For now I am going to have one button for Snooze of 20 minutes... not as flexible as I'd like)
10 votesThank you for nominating the feature! It is now available in Mattermost v5.4.
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Android App: Notification on Timeout or Logout
Send Android Users a Notification if they have been logged out.
We previously had session lengths of 1 month. After that, the App silently just doesn't send any more notifications about messages and users forget about it.
Only if you open the App directly, you'll see that you have been logged out.1 voteHey all,
Thanks for the report. We’ve identified the issue and fixed it in v1.13. You should receive a push notification after the session expires informing that happened.
Note that for the fix to take effect, you would need to log in with v1.13. So you might see your session expire without receiving a push notification one more time, but you should receive that notification thereafter.
Mattermost v5.4 also adds a session expiry notification for the desktop app and desktop browser.
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Let someone get to a public channel with just one hyperlink
Yesterday I tried to share a link to a public channel on mattermost with people who had never visited the site.
Unfortunately when they clicked it they were redirected to the default home page, and not even for the home page for that group. I then found out later that I could get someone there with two hyperlinks (1) an invite link for the group and (2) a direct link to the channel.
I think it would be much easier for someone to be able to click just one hyperlink and be redirected to the page you intended. It would…
4 votesGreat suggestion Vincent! This is in fact fixed in v5.1 release coming on July 16th.
With that release, when the user clicks on a link to a specific channel outside of Mattermost, and goes through the account creation process, they will land on the channel they intended to view.
More details are included in this ticket: mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-9479
If you see any issues with this functionality on the v5.1 release, let us know!
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Restrict team by email
It is currently possible to restrict account creation to specific email domains via “Settings > Users and Teams > Restrict account creation to specified email domains”; however, once a user has an account, they can be invited to any team, or join any open team.
We would like to be able restrict individual teams to an email domain too. Specifically, we have a group of external contractors who have access to their own team, but we don’t want them to accidentally end up in any of our other teams.
For example, team “Foo” would only allow members from @foo.com, and…
75 votesMattermost 5.4 has added a new setting to restrict teams by email domain
Huge thanks for Gabe (@gvengel) for your contribution, and for everyone nominating this feature.
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Use the actual group url as the invite url
Why use a separate URL to invite people to a group on mattermost?
It seems like there would only be an advantage to keeping the URLs separate if someone could visit a page without actually joining it, but that isn't the case.
When someone (for the first time) tries to use the URL that we see in the address bar when looking at the group they don't actually make it to the page. Instead they are redirected to the default home page.
1 voteGreat suggestion Vincent! This is in fact fixed in v5.1 release coming on July 16th.
With that release, when the user clicks on a link to a specific channel outside of Mattermost, and goes through the account creation process, they will land on the channel they intended to view.
More details are included in this ticket: https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-9479
If you see any issues with this functionality on the v5.1 release, let us know!
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Message preview for Android notifications
The system notifications triggered by Mattermost don't include a message preview (only a message "@xyz sent you a direct message" with "@xyz sent you a direct message" as preview), even if "show content" on lock screen is activated for Mattermost notifications. It would be nice to have message previews.
1 voteThanks for the feedback!
This is in fact available, but your System Admin might have restricted what information is included in push notifications. We provide three options:
– General description with only the sender’s name
– General description with user and channel names
– Full message snippet including a message previewYou can contact your System Admin to see which option they’ve chosen. More information here: https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/config-settings.html#push-notification-contents
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Link to a channel in chat like #announcements
It would be nice if I can point to an other cahnnel. Mostly useful for public ones, like:
> free beer! find details in #announcements
but it would be even better if we can point to any other, maybe in other team too.1 voteThanks Tamás for the feature idea!
This is in fact available on Mattermost with the ~-sign. For instance, you can post:
> free beer! find details in ~announcements
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Option to have permanent sessions on mobile apps, manageable on the server
After logging in to the server on a mobile app the server should assign a permanent session to the app. This avoids the necessity of re-loggin in to mobile apps.
In order to keep security the user should be able to view logged in session ("devices") on the server an be able to log them out if necessary.1 voteThank you Andreas! Both of these can actually be achieved today:
1. Your System Admin can configure how long mobile sessions last in System Console > Security > Sessions > Session length for mobile apps. https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/config-settings.html#sessions
2. Each user can view logged in sessions in Account Settings > Security > View and Logout of Active Sessions. Your System Admin can also revoke all sessions from a user in System Console > Users if necessary.
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Delete User (to be GDPR conform)
The european unions new general data protection regulation grants user the "right to be forgotten" (Article 17, GDPR). Event though Art. 17. (1) a. grants the exception, that data does not have to be deleted if it is still necessary for the purpose it was collected or processed, it is questionable if this exception is applicable.
I understand the effort to maintain a consistent history of conversations and interactions and therefore not implementing a deletion of users and the work it takes to implement a compromise between guranteeing the data subjects right to be forgotten and consistent conversation history.
Still…
1 voteWe do have a CLI tool for deleting a user that I think should cover what you’re looking for: https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/command-line-tools.html?highlight=cli#platform-user-delete
Let us know if it looks like that will work, or if there’s anything missing from it!
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Mobile Client Upload Files
Feature really really required. Upload files to mattermost. Web can do it which means just need to implement mobile interface.
22 votesThank you everyone for upvoting this feature suggestion! File uploads now supported on mobile apps v1.9 and later.
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upload any type of files
We need an opportunity to upload any type of file to the group chat i.e. docs, html, pdf and so on.
16 votesThank you everyone for upvoting this feature suggestion! File uploads now supported on mobile apps v1.9 and later.
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Allow users to choose the Teammate Name Display option
From version 4.0 the Teammate Name Display option is an administrator only option for the reasons explained at https://forum.mattermost.org/t/switching-teammate-name-display-to-a-system-console-setting/3366
Please add another option in the _System Console_ under _Users and Teams_ "Allow users to choose Teammate Name Display" which allows users to choose how to display users' names in posts and the Direct Messages list.
We understand that the name in the push notification would not reflect an individual user's preferences; this would be totally fine for us (but it probably should be mentioned in the description text of the new option).
The main thing is that our users prefer…
247 votesThank you John for nominating the feature! This feature is now available in Mattermost v4.9. Users can go to Account Settings > Display > Teammate Name Display.
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21 votes
iPhone X layout is supported on iOS and Android mobile apps for v1.5 and later.
Big thanks everyone for contributing to this feature suggestion!
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Consolidate display of join/leave messages into a single System Message
Where lots of users join, I find it interferes with seeing real content. Any screen is dominated by System join messages.
52 votesThank you for nominating the feature! It is now available in Mattermost 5.0!
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