Feature Request: Add option to configure is a user joins muted or unmuted

[solick]

currently all newly joining users are joining muted which means an extra step to unmute before start talking.

It would be great to have a configuration per user or per server to start unmuted into a call.

[streamer45]

Thanks for the feedback @solick,

Personally I think it could become a per channel/call setting plus a user specific override. Essentially I'd like to avoid force unmuting a user if they don't elected to as it could be confusing or even undesired behaviour.

It's a good discussion to have though, hope to get more feedback from other people as well.

/cc @itao

[PRGfx]

We often have calls with just very few people, where we regularly have some confusion about initially being muted.

I could imagine a setting to optionally mute joining users an "ongoing conversation", i.e. a call with n users already connected where n can be adjusted.

Maybe there could be a checkbox to join the call muted (checked according to some configuration – server/channel/user) with the "Join call" plugin message.

[meierw]

Hello. Our team recently started using mattermost, and overall the experience has been great, compared to Slack or Discord. But this default muted behaviour is counter-intuitive to what we are used to.

Many apps nowadays have this as a solved problem, by having a threshold of auto-unmuted/muted users. By that I mean that if for example somebody joins as the 5th person in a call, when 4 other people are already in a call, said 5th person is auto muted, to avoid too much noise in big group calls.

My suggestion would be a config option to turn on/off the auto-mute, and also set the threshold number where new joinees are muted or not.

[streamer45]

Thanks @meierw , that's good feedback. I'll bring it up with the team and see if we can make some improvements on this front. /cc @cpoile