I don't understand how in 2024 this must-have forward privacy feature is still not implemented in mattermost. Chat apps in turn some kind of a company memory (including all private discussions); and a new employee can just come, dump all the history, then leave the company. There is no useful workaround.

This is the most important feature I've found lacking so far when it comes to evaluating Mattermost as a replacement for Slack

Upvoting this please!

This is critical. Users need assurance that a level of 'forward privacy', if you will, exists. It is trivial to implement, so it's surprising this hasn't been done by March 2016.

Any update on this suggestion?

It's a must-have feature

This feature request matters the most

Please add this feature guys..

I'm out of votes too, but I need the same feature and actually ended up here after searching if it could already be configured.

It is very nice feature, i would like to see it asap.

Hi folks,

I currently face the following problem: I want to invite somebody to a team but I do not want him to see all the history.

So the idea would be, to mark users as users that are not able to see messages (and replies to messages) that have been posted prior to their signup date.

Cheers
Thomas

This is a great idea.

This is an excellent idea, and if I hadn't already spent my votes elsewhere, I would vote for this.