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Add quote reply in addition to collapsed threads
Currently, in order to reply to someone a few messages back, you hit the reply button and it goes into a thread. Alternatively, Mattermost could add a quote button on messages next to the reply button. When you click quote button it should work like reply in modern messengers with text of the message or part of it and name of the creator of the message.
Threads are useful, but creating them for replying to paticular messages can be a bit of an overkill.76 votesLabel and status updated.
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Ability to “Also send to channel” inside a thread
As we are starting to use threads more, it would be nice to keep the channel updated when important updates are made in threads.
Slack solves this problem by adding a checkbox that says “Also send to channel” inside a thread. Would love to see a similar approach.
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Get a notification for reactions
Anytime someone put a reaction (emoji) on a text you wrote, you are not notified.
Very anoying.64 votesLabel and status updated.
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React to reactions
Reaction emojis are great for quickly expressing a sentiment in response to a message. It would be beneficial to have the ability to add a reaction emoji to those reactions.
For example, when someone reacts with “Thank you” I need to then type a new message to say “You’re welcome”, and if someone overlooks the small “thank you” emoji then my message can be easily misinterpreted as sarcastically implying the person wasn’t grateful!
Instead, it would be much better if I could add a “You’re welcome!” reaction to their “Thank you!” reaction.
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Customiziable user profile fields (in addition to "position" and "nickname")
Currently the user profile contains a nickname and position field. It would be awesome if it was possible to add additional fields in the System Console, and that users then could populate them with information.
Depending on the mattermost server and what it is used for many different fields could be useful. For my specific case (student organization) I would like to add:
- Phone Number
- Pronouns
- Year of study
These fields would ideally show up both on mobile and desktop/web platforms.
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Provide a way to control the time range of reading history in a channel
Be able to control the range of channel member's reading history.
Options include:
1. All
2. Until the date of the member joins3 votes -
Some kind of user interface that showed messages to a person that have not been replied to by the recipient of that @ message.
I think it would be a great new differentiating feature in Mattermost if they had some kind of user interface that showed messages to a person that have not been replied to by the recipient of that @ message.
For instance we often have people who are not very responsive on Mattermost. You send a message “@person can you give me your feedback?” and of course often the person does not reply. Then you have to manually remember that the person didn’t reply, so the next day or two you send them a message “@person would you please reply?” and…
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AVIF image format support
AVIF (which is also a still image of av1 video compressor) is one of the most modern image formats (in addition to JPEG XL).
Majority of web browsers already support it and modern news websites are using it on regular basis. Sites such as Facebook / Instagram support it (and btw.. render avif uploads much faster than jpg)
If you want to compress / archive your image collection AVIF and JPEG XL are best formats to do that as they are open source. Problems start when you want to share an image from your collection to a Mattermost site.
I…
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Message Forwarding Control in Mattermost
Currently, users cannot forward messages to others in Mattermost. It would be helpful if system admins could control this feature — either allow or restrict forwarding globally or between selected users. This would improve usability while keeping communication secure and flexible.
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To use an Access Token to login at the Mobile app
I see that the access token is only for the API, but I wonder if at some point it would be possible to use the access token to access the mobile app? and thus avoid using the password (or in my case keycloak credentials) on the smartphone.
Thanks
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Option to Disable Channel Sorting Based on User Join/Leave Activity
I would like to propose an enhancement to the current channel sorting functionality. Specifically, I would suggest making it possible to sort channels based on activity, while excluding user join/leave events from influencing the sorting order.
The current activity-based sorting is useful for keeping active conversations easily accessible. However, frequent user join/leave events can also cause channel reordering, which may lead to unnecessary disruption, especially in larger teams or public channels where such events are frequent.
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Add ESR URLs to the latest version redirects
The list of URLs at https://latest.mattermost.com/ that redirect to current Mattermost software is great. Doing an HTTP HEAD request on any of them shows the current semantic version in the Location header, great for checking for patch updates.
For some reason, ESR versions are not listed there. It would be very helpful for sysadmins if your list also had these:
https://latest.mattermost.com/mattermost-enterprise-esr-linux
https://latest.mattermost.com/mattermost-team-esr-linux
which could redirect to the versions marked as Extended Support Release on https://docs.mattermost.com/about/version-archive.html2 votes -
Display Full User Names in Mobile App (Avoid Truncating with Ellipsis)
Hi Team,
I’ve noticed that on the Mattermost mobile app (iOS), user names are often truncated and displayed as “Kim…” instead of showing the full name, even though the full name appears correctly on the web version. This makes it difficult to identify users, especially in organizations where many people have similar names.
Please enhance the mobile app UI so that full user names are always visible, or at least provide an option to expand or view the full name easily. Ideally, the display should be consistent with the web version, either by wrapping the text, allowing horizontal scrolling, or…
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Display full names in @mentions during input typing
When typing @mentions, there's an inconsistency in how names are displayed.
The suggestion dropdown shows both username and full name, and the final posted message displays the full name, but the input area only shows the username while typing.This creates confusion, especially in international teams where usernames may not reflect actual names. Users can't easily confirm who they're mentioning until after the message is posted.
There should be a way to display full names consistently in the input area while typing, matching the behavior of the suggestion list and posted messages. This would improve user experience and reduce mention…
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Message attachment action button open URL
Currently, message actions button is doing a HTTP call to get a JSON response. What about adding the possibility to define button that open an URL in a new tab ?
Using https://developers.mattermost.com/integrate/plugins/interactive-messages/ , we want to display a button that simply open a link:
{
"attachments": [
{
"pretext": "This is the attachment pretext.",
"text": "This is the attachment text.",
"actions": [{
"id": "open-link",
"name": "Open Dashboard",
"integration": {
"link": "http://grafana.my-dev.com"
}
}
]
}
]
}
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Customizable Chat Skins or Themes for User Interface
I suggest Mattermost introduce customizable skins or chat themes (like animated backgrounds, colorful avatars, etc.) for user experience personalization.
Gamers and younger audiences often appreciate playful visuals during team communication. This could bring a fun twist and attract more Gen Z users.
For example, our gaming mod community (https://stumbleguymod.com) frequently asks for these types of features in real-time multiplayer experiences. A skin-based plugin or theme builder would really enhance engagement.
Hope this gets noticed by the product team!
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Custom Tag or Option that shows 1st line (title) but collapses the rest of long post under "Show More"
Currently Mattermost limits the length of posts to 16383 characters (https://mattermost.uservoice.com/forums/306457-general/suggestions/17368972-eliminate-4000-character-per-message-message-leng).
Most likely the limit is caused by the length of the TEXT field in supported MySQL, which is 65536 bytes. A UNICODE character can take up to 4 bytes, hence the safe limit:
65536 bytes / 4 = 16383,75 characters.Using rich Markdown formatting, abundance of hyperlinks, one can reach the limit of 16383 characters in a research post.
To make it easier to scroll through the list, Mattermost collapses (hides) parts of long posts under "Show more" button/link, after showing first few lines.
Too make it…
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allow the Late Time Warning to be disabled or modified
Not everyone works a regular schedule. Constantly being "warned" about messaging someone during their regular work hours could get really annoying. The ability to disable this, or to alter the time(s) that would incur a "warning" should be a relatively low LoE.
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JPEG XL (jxl) Image Format support
JPEG XL is one of the most modern image formats (in addition to AVIF). It newer and not yet as common as AVIF but it is the only image format which has practically no limitations (it supports almost everything). Compression efficiency is as good as AVIF (except for certain very low filesize settings) and it is also open source and royalty free. Encoding speeds are 3-5x faster than AVIF why it might be better for certain scenarios.
Browser support is a bit lacking at the moment so if support were added there should be automatic conversion to some more supported…
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Customizable time in scheduled messages
When creating a scheduled message in the time field you can only select minutes 00 or 30, and this is actually a problem, users want to create messages for example in 45 minutes or 15 minutes.
https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/issues/305234 votes
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