Add ability for administrators to restrict archiving of channels
Users are prevented from archiving Town Square, but users are able to archive any other channel
Several options were considered for this feature, including:
- Separate permissions for archiving, renaming, modifying and creating channels
- Adding a new role for managing channels
- Offering individual permissions for manipulating channels
Applying the fast, obvious, forgiving design principle we arrived at the least complex solution of the options, which was to combine restrictions for creating, renaming and updating channel information, in addition to restricting archiving.
The goal was to keep things simple, so that users either “can do everything” or “can do nothing” and aren’t confused about their permissions.
This feature has been added as an optional IT policy in Mattermost E10.
This was also considered for Team Edition, but it didn’t seem appropriate for a “virtual office” where everyone knew each other well. It would be like having locks on the conference room doors to keep people from erasing things off the whiteboards.
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Tom Truitt commented
support for archiving of channels, reserving deletion for admins only
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i also like the idea that was implied in one post about channel owners... i think the person was talking about teams not channels. but i dig the idea of you make a channel and it's yours to manage and no one can delete but you or an admin. that anyone on a bad day can delete a place where i have shared important information with others that either party may like to retrieve again is really unacceptable.
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Chad
commented
Channel administration is highly needed on this platform!