Hi !
Thanks for having added the custom statuses to Mattermost.
But by doing that, you've just made what the others (slack, discord...) have already done.
It seems logical that if you do more than the others, if you add features that others don't have, people will choose your platform rather than other's platform.

So what can you do more for the custom statuses ?

Sometimes, you need to send a "message" to the people you works with. But instead sending a message every time which will be submerged by other messages, why not set a status that only concerned users will see ?

For example, I need to work with Mr. X and Mr. Z, so I'm going to set a status "Ready to work with you" and you will set the people to @mrX and @mrY