New Channel Setting Suggestion for Information Channels
When you run a large discord server you will always need to have dedicated information channels that have your servers information and rules on display. By default when you open a channel in Discord, you will open it to the newest messages at the bottom of the channel when it is your first time opening the channel, or you will open it to wherever you left off previously.
This is great for channels in which conversation's are occurring, but for static information channels, such as rules or reaction role channels, you always want people to start from the top of the channel, or the oldest messages.
I propose that Discord add a setting in the channel settings to allow you to set the channel to open to either the oldest or newest message upon first entering the channel. This would allow server owners to direct traffic to the top of a rules page, making those that enter much more likely to read them, than when they start at the bottom and have to scroll up to the start.
In the proposed new channel setting:
The default setting for the channels opening orientation would be "Newest Messages" (The bottom of the channel). Then in the channel settings there would be a selection that allows you to toggle the channels orientation to open instead to the oldest messages (The top of the channel).
This would help enforce rules about behavior and toxicity in servers by giving server owners a better tool to ensure that anyone that enters our servers know what the rules are and how to conduct themselves in that server.
I think this would be a very simple and practical idea to institute, that Discord as a platform and it's entire user base would all benefit from. Hopefully this is something we see integrated in the near future!
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Thank You!
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One addendum I'd like to add for this feature is a "Always stay current" - regardless of read status.
I run a small discord that has game server streams (repurposed IRC bots stripped down and broadcasting game events to discord). The events happen quite quickly, but if you're not watching it, discord will just stack up the messages until you read through them which isn't desirable for the purpose of streaming game events to discord.
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You know those lines like "31 February 2020" in channels? They are also annoying in information-oriented channels imo.
Here's what I'd suggest in addition:
Role selections, social media, anything informative should become this type of channel (and the rules channel would have these settings by default)
When creating this channel type, everyone cannot talk by default setting (same as how announcements do it).
This channel would (for people who cannot talk in this channel):
- Automatically hide the day-lines (when a message was sent)
- Eventually a /hr command can be added, so you would still be able to split into sections.
- Hide the usernames/avatars of message authors
- 'Spawn' at the top of the conversation
- Keep traffic of who read it (could be hard to implement but quite handy). This would store the 'most low' message a user has seen or at least had loaded. Bots could make benefit of this by e.g. muting users until they have read all of the channel contents (or at least to a certain message).
For people who can write into the information channels:
- Extended Markdown [](), #, ##, ###, bullet lists actually becoming bullet lists
- Ability to edit messages of other senders (Treat this more like a wiki channel, you wouldn't want to wait till that person comes online). This would show "edited by whom" in case of abuse.
- Embed Constructors for Users (not everyone has a bot, and i think this would help out smaller servers)
- Higher character limit with the cost of lower rate limits to prevent this feature being abused.
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