Allow Channel Admins to be able to enter "select" or "edit" mode where checkboxes appear next to the messages.
Admins would be able to select messages one by one or to select a range of messages by clicking the first one, holding Shift button and selecting the last one (like we've used from other software).

After selecting multiple messages, Admins would be able to delete them at once, or perform any other action that might be implemented during the development (move, archive, flag, something else).

This feature would make it a lot easier to delete whole bunches of off-topic messages and make all the channels cleaner and easier to use - both from user and admin point of view.

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In the notification preferences for a channel (probably under Mark Channel Unread), I'd like to have the ability to disable the application icon badge in the taskbar unless someone mentions me or the whole channel, while still keeping the channel name in bold for any general messages.

That way, when I open the app, I can see which channels have general messages for me to catch up on (b/c the channel name will be in bold), but I don't get drawn to the app by taskbar icon badges for channels that I don't want to be notified about while I'm doing other work.

In the “Direct Messages” leftmost pane show a miniature mugshot, in addition to the persons name shown. The same mugshot /image as shown in message conversation list view.

Sometimes the name is not know or remembered, but the face is not easily forgotten (unless your blind) and might be recognized, when initiating a conversation.

My list contain about 100 developers, many with similarly sounding names and it would ease when trying to find the right developer.

When having many contacts often the names becomes very similar i.e John A Smith, John B Smith, John C Smith.

Which of those is the John you met at the coffee machine?

Of course one can click on each and every one of the ones in the long list of Direct Messages, you believe you spoke with in order to see the mugshot, which is only shown after a specific contact have been selected, but it is a time-consuming process.

Can it be implemented in next release?

Thank you for your time. Please vote for this idea!

I use the channel switcher with Ctrl+K a lot. Recently I joined two groups that have some overlapping members:

Group X has members aa, bb, me. Group Y has members aa, cc, me.

Now, it is quite tedious to search for them efficiently. If I search for "bb" and "cc" I will hit direct messaging with either of the two. And if I search for "aa" it is even worse: I get the two groups, plus direct messaging.

I suggest to allow for a search expressions as follows: "a b", "a c". I expect this to find group channels where there is a member whose name contains the latter "a" and a member whose name contains the letter "b" (or "c" respectively).

As far as I see, your current logic for matching channels is just plain substring inclusion. My suggestion would change this to first splitting by whitespace and then checking for inclusion of all tokens.

Also take some inspiration from fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#search-syntax with an implementation at https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/master/src/pattern.go

The first impressions of an app are critical. This is the screenshot that I have when I have first installed the Matermost desktop client on Ubuntu. I think it will be the same for all platforms:

https://imgur.com/a/HY7FxOv

Almost everything on this screen is unfriendly to a new user especially a non-technical user.

# 1. The title

It just says: 'Add Server'. Nothing like 'Hi!' or 'Welcome to Mattermost!' or anything that displays some kind of enthusiasm for welcoming the user. This is where Slack shines - friendly, quirky (perhaps later annoying) messages.

# 2. Server Display Name

Even as a fairly technical user (CS university degree, 20 years web development experience, installed 4-5 different Linux distributions, 17k reputation across Stack Exchange) I have no clue as to what this means.

Questions that I have as a dumb user (note that this screen makes me *feel* like a dumb user - which is really bad):

1. Is this optional?
2. Where can I find the server name?
3. Can I choose my own?

The help text is: 'The name of the server displayed on your desktop app tab bar.'. But I don't have anything displayed there. What is my 'desktop app tab bar'? I don't know what that is.

The placeholder text 'Server Name' doesn't help at all

# 3. My suggestion

This my guess at what I think you could display. This would only need to be displayed for the first server it could be simplified for later servers, once a user has added one server then they will have a mental model of what will happen, but until then the extra **friendly** explanation really helps.

Title: Welcome to Mattermost! Let's connect your first server

Label: Your server address (URL)
Placeholder: https://example.com
Help text: *The URL of your Mattermost server. It needs to start with http:// or https://.*

Label: [optional] Give your server a display name
Placeholder: Choose any characters or emojis - go wild
Help text: This will be displayed in your side bar once you've added it

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