Way of organising channels

[matthias-brun]

Currently there is no way of sorting or grouping the channels a user is in, except for completely hiding them. Over time, as the number of channels a user is in grows, the channel list gets messy and it becomes difficult to quickly find a specific channel.

My suggestion would be to add a feature which allows for

• either organising the channels in directories or groups (every user can have a different layout and is able to organise in a way that fits best for them)
• or the creation of subchannels which would allow the same functionality but globally, so all users have the same structure.

The exact implementation could look quite different than what I outlined above but should provide a way of organising many channels.

I couldn't find any similar issues, has this never been discussed before?

[clevertree]

$$$ is in charge. Open source is dead.

[neylwalecki]

@clevertree @adestis-ds and all

They're problably strugling to make profit and there's to many open source users, that's bad for their business. So they started to remove and limit features from the open source version and now are disabling push notifications and other things from who doesn't upgrade to the most recent versions (which has the new limitations imposed).

They're doing this at a slow pace and hiding it among other announcements, so most users problably have no knowledge of this until they need to use something that was there before and now shows a message about upgrade to the paid plan.

Things that were removed or limited:

• No more home screen custom message/HTML
• No more read receipt/info on messages
• You can't create new permissions profile (type of user), but if you created before they continue to work (otherwise users would get very very mad)
• You can't activate more than 5 apps from the marketplace (and some popular free apps now are paid, like polls, for example)
• They ended the benefit of doubling the push notification limit for who donated 10USD montly here in their GitHub (but are not enforcing the limits yet as they need to offer a paid option to buy the push notification extra amount first)

Problably there's more things, specially for who uses omnichannel feature (not my case), these is what I noticedin these last year or so.

Rocketchat is a great app and I really admire their work. I'm from Brazil and I'm proud to have a brazilian startup like Rocketchat being successful. But they should offer more tiers/options for who runs it on-premises and don't need omnichannel and other things.

[SerPenTargo]

It's very strange that RC still doesn't have the functionality to group the contacts window by category or department. This is a much needed functionality.

[Gitoffomalawn]

I feel this issue needs another necrobump to stay on the radar...

[vorpentine]

Grouping channels would be amazing

[warlock9k]

Another option that seems pretty simple to implement is to add an additional “Label” field to the channel property. And add a “Group by label” option to the appearance. This would allow different channels to be grouped together. Ideally, labels should be different for each user, but if this is difficult to implement, you can make them available for editing to the channel owner.