Easily change default channel town-square
Across Go and React code, town-square channel is hardcoded. Maybe we can make it configuration-based so teams can easily change it and the platform can redirect correctly to /channel/<new name>.
However doing this, we also have to change the mobile app code e.g. https://github.com/mattermost/android/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/mattermost/mattermost/MainActivity.java#L137 code.
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Ben Bodenmiller commented
Similarly often times we have teams that need to be merged with other teams. Currently one cannot rename town square and move it to the new team. Hopefully support for renaming town square would enable this.
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Andreas Scharf
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That would be great and would also solve the problem of people posting in Town Square addressing all memebers just because it's the default.
Maybe something that could help you as well: You might find this proposal usfull as well: https://mattermost.uservoice.com/forums/306457-general/suggestions/33917131-warning-message-for-all-posts-in-town-square -
Andreas Scharf
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That would be great. Also I'd like to have a warning for all posts in Town Square: You might find this proposal usfull as well: https://mattermost.uservoice.com/forums/306457-general/suggestions/33917131-warning-message-for-all-posts-in-town-square
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PtrBld
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Maybe think of something more configurable like in Slack:
https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201898998-Set-default-channels-for-new-members -
T3rm1
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I don't get the idea behind the default channels. Why are two channels created of which one isn't even allowed to be deleted. I don't want to have a channel with a url "town-square". Why can't I change this?
If I create a team I want an empty channel list. I want to create all my channels myself.
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n3niu
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+3 from my side. I've wondered why channel town-square cannot be deleted...