Direct Messages Between Multiple Users

[hughlroberts]

Your Rocket.Chat version: 0.41.0

Setting up a new private group is painful. Slack allows you to quickly add users together without naming the group but simply inviting users into a message together and then as those group messages aren't used they are moved down the most recent messages in direct messages.

Any way that can be re-incorporated into rocket.chat?

[mkretzer]

My users also ask for this!

[alexandrezia]

Most requested here too

[mddvul22]

Yes, this would be great in our environment!

[drickerusa]

This would definitely make it easier on our migrated slack users.

[ruihildt]

You can create a private channel instead, but that's just a workaround before the main thing. :)

[xseguib]

+1

[brynn-macpherson]

Plus one for me as well, we're migrating from Slack and this will make things MUCH easier

[Dracozny]

Please just use the Thumbs up of the post you're +1ing. Otherwise, it drives unnecessary notifications to everyone following the issue.

[cam-cross]

👍

[GezimSejdiu]

👍

[aoyawale]

1+

[flashbackcz]

This would be very nice and better than a new group (:

+1

[simonv3]

I feel like a way of doing this might be to have an "unnamed" private group, and only once you name it does it become a "channel". Otherwise it's a way private messages. Does that make sense?

[nakic]

Sounds like an obvious feature to implement to me: one of the first things we used with Slack. :\

[paul-hph]

[gwpantazes]

@simonv3 With the note that a named group wouldn't carry the previous private message history into the channel, the newly named channel would start fresh with the members of the private message.
I think "unnamed" is the right idea, but the "name" of (or way of identifying) the private message "channel" would just be the members participating, right?

[simonv3]

Yeah, I would think so.

[ghost]

@simonv3 @gwpantazes Thanks! I've made a PR with that in mind #9106 Please take a look. Though to match current behaviour of Rocket.Chat, conversion is done not through renaming, but via a separate checkbox like its done with private to public channel conversion.

[dcorrigangoempyrean]

Adding my name for highly wanted feature!

[metalcated]

Same here... I can't get 100% buy-in from the higher up's until this feature is available.

[nelsongraca]

any news on this? My users are requesting this too

[zdumitru]

Pull request #9106 is ready for review.