This feature is a must.
Please implement it.

Would be perfect!

This is the only hurdle that is hard to switch to mattermost.

Look forward to seeing this feature!

any update on this? why are you guys making users beg for a standard feature which is available in all your competitors?

Please add the functionality to show read receipts which should make it possible to see who read each message. Most of your alternate solutions already have this functionality.

E.g rocket chat has:

By activating `Show Read Receipts` users will see who reads each message and by activating `Detailed Read Receipts` they will see when users read each message.

This idea has been requested since 2016 and it's a pity no one even assigned it.

The original idea has been made in 2016, a feature ticket was made in 2018 and it still hasn't been assigned to someone.
Kinda pitty to be honest, lot's of people have asked for this and it still isn't here.
with 294 votes for the post i think it's something people really want to see.

Honestly, I do not understand the true goal of Mattermost Inc. If the goal was to provide the community with a “state of art” collaborative tool, the implementation of features such as "Read Receipts" is a must, with top priority, there is no doubt about it.
Why not implement it? It would not be difficult to activate sponsorship systems, transparent, serious (such as Indiegogo) that would allow you to make available the funds needed to develop what you need.
The feeling is that all this is known but Mattermost Inc. has no intention of following this path.

Any news on the ticket ?

anyone's sponsoring ?

Any mod that what to review this idea?

How come this is not already in?

Our company really would like to see this feature on the next Mattermost releases.

Would really like to see such a feature. Should be an option to switch on and off in admin console.

Where is this option?
If already is.

Do you plan to create such an option???

A plug-in that show you: read or not read of a message (like WhatsApp / WhatsApp-Web)
read confirmation: Chat is open and the application is in the foreground

For enterprise use this is **really** helpful. I know there are no algorithm that can really guarantee that a message has really been read, unless the user explicitly clicks on i.e. a checkbox, which could basically then just be a reaction icon. But, there should be an algorithm that is able to find out if the message has "most likely" been read or not. We were used to Flowdock, which seemed to do a pretty good job in this respect. We used this feature all the time back then, and it is sorely missed in Slack.

I want to see if the opponent reads the message what i sent in DirectMessage.
If opponent read the direct message what i sent, the read sign is shown to me.
If opponent reads the message what i sent, then i want to see read mark on DirectMessage.

Our customers on Enterprise deployments are requesting this feature as well. Would really help with managers being able to see if subordinates got their message, etc.