Hi.
Here are my gripes. Minor but surely adds up when used everyday.
1. The reply button is too far away and small. It probably doesn't hurt to add text next to the icons like shown in the video in 4 to increase the click area.
In another chat app (Chatwork), I can quote a message explicitly and I can also select a part of another message to quote only that, which is very useful when just responding to a part of another message especially when that message was long.
5. Not seen in the above video but if someone else quotes me, the whole message's background gets highlighted, so I can easily notice.
6. Mobile app needs to be able to access multiple servers but I'm sure you already have this request from many.
7. You said in another post that people get logged out automatically for security reasons but I think that puts a lot of inconvenience as I can only explain to those infrequent users it's some kind of bug because they wouldn't agree it's a "feature" when they lose further push notifications by not doing anything wrong themselves. This is the biggest reason I cannot recommend Mattermost when it can be seen as unreliable.
8. This is probably never going to be changed but I don't like that everyone has to join a global room when they join a team. I'd rather want people to only join specific channels. Kind of puts a wrong pressure to have everyone who don't even talk to usually in a same room and a possibility to type something wrong to everyone isn't a plus either. I can make many teams but that loses visibility to all the channels I belong to in a single view.
9. Ability to disable automatic formatting globally. It's always annoying when people just type symbols only to end up the message looking funny and I want to disable automatic formatting. In fact, I don't remember when I ever needed to format my message in a chat when I'm not composing a wiki page.
Simply typing "text[new line]---[new line]text" would yield this.
I still think it's the best self hosted chat solution but lack of much visible improvements for years (I know you're keep making constant updates on the server component) is making me lose much faith on where it's going.
- You've shared some really interesting ideas around quoting parts of messages. While it's possible to use the markdown `>` character to insert a quote, I think we can certainly improve here to make quoting more easily accessible. Would you be open to share your ideas on the feature idea forum: https://mattermost.uservoice.com/forums/306457-general
- We are working toward a v2 of our mobile app that will support connecting to multiple Mattermost servers and have improved team and channel navigation. We expect to open it up for beta testers later this year. You can check out the designs here https://www.figma.com/file/a9w2q3JnVvBwo2IScP8j3K/Phase-1-De.... Let me know if you have any feedback or thoughts!
- We allow System Administrators to customize session lengths to keep users logged in for longer if desired. We also offer an option for Administrators to enable automatically extending sessions with activity so users will stay logged in indefinitely as long as they have activity in Mattermost at any time within the specified session duration. You can learn more at: https://mattermost.com/blog/session-expiry-experience/
1. The reply button is too far away and small. It probably doesn't hurt to add text next to the icons like shown in the video in 4 to increase the click area.
https://i.imgur.com/DozvaBu.png
2. The replying message doesn't look intuitive, as, a bar to the left of a message looks like a quote instead of a live message I just typed.
https://i.imgur.com/lqefGBs.png
3. The quoted reply message's layout doesn't look right.
I really want a bit more roomy implementation than put everything condensed in 1 line. You can see a roomy implementation in 4's video.
https://i.imgur.com/voCziha.png
4. Quoting of messages
In another chat app (Chatwork), I can quote a message explicitly and I can also select a part of another message to quote only that, which is very useful when just responding to a part of another message especially when that message was long.
https://i.imgur.com/8dnqMZE.mp4
5. Not seen in the above video but if someone else quotes me, the whole message's background gets highlighted, so I can easily notice.
6. Mobile app needs to be able to access multiple servers but I'm sure you already have this request from many.
7. You said in another post that people get logged out automatically for security reasons but I think that puts a lot of inconvenience as I can only explain to those infrequent users it's some kind of bug because they wouldn't agree it's a "feature" when they lose further push notifications by not doing anything wrong themselves. This is the biggest reason I cannot recommend Mattermost when it can be seen as unreliable.
8. This is probably never going to be changed but I don't like that everyone has to join a global room when they join a team. I'd rather want people to only join specific channels. Kind of puts a wrong pressure to have everyone who don't even talk to usually in a same room and a possibility to type something wrong to everyone isn't a plus either. I can make many teams but that loses visibility to all the channels I belong to in a single view.
9. Ability to disable automatic formatting globally. It's always annoying when people just type symbols only to end up the message looking funny and I want to disable automatic formatting. In fact, I don't remember when I ever needed to format my message in a chat when I'm not composing a wiki page.
Simply typing "text[new line]---[new line]text" would yield this.
https://i.imgur.com/wcv8s7J.png
I still think it's the best self hosted chat solution but lack of much visible improvements for years (I know you're keep making constant updates on the server component) is making me lose much faith on where it's going.