Tdesktop: [Feature Request] Use @all to simply notify all members of groups and supergroups in a message

[paul-arthurthiery]

1. Type "@all" in a message
2. All members of the group will then be notified through this message

Simpler for an admin rather than typing every single username in a single message

[MasterGroosha]

You can pin necessary message and notify all members about it.

[paul-arthurthiery]

I'm afraid this option is only available for supergroups, which are not ergonomic for groups of about 10 people.

[Skarlso]

Please don't make this a slack clone. Thanks.

[T3rminat0r]

Still, an easy way to notify groups would be nice. But if it triggers notifications same as a normal mention, it should be limited to admins for supergroups ... :)

[stek29]

@paul-arthurthiery then just write all 10 usernames :)

[paul-arthurthiery]

@stek29 I don't get why you're all taking this as a joke. Finding and adding 12 usernames (sometimes 30) to a messages in order to notify everybody of an event (ex: party) is just a waste of time when something so simple could be implemented. Furthermore, it makes the message unreadable and you often forget a username or two along the way. A simple "@all" would be so much easier.

[diazbastian]

It does not sound so bad. It could easily be an option for a bot, but having a standard feature and sounds good, especially for workgroups (200 members).

Other enterprise messaging solutions have something similar and homologous to the email system that some companies use (if you write a [email protected]) and sends a message to all members of the company, department, group, etc. 👍

[MasterGroosha]

@diazbastian Again: why not use message pinning?
Of course, it's only available to admins, but if everyone would use @all command the group will be a mess.

[diazbastian]

@Kondra007 oh god xD... read again,
I'm talking about groups rather than supergroups. To work teams is better than each user to manage his own message history.
Moreover, @paul-arthurthiery specifies that would be a feature for administrators (although the dynamics is different in groups). Anyway, the use cases differ to a use a pinned message.

[Aokromes]

@Kondra007 message pinning is limited to super groups, and some people already have message pinning used for permanent important messages, and unless i am mistaked, you only can pin one.

[stek29]

@paul-arthurthiery It wasn't a joke and I didn't mean to offend you, sorry.
I personally do this (Write all members' usernames, ~15) and that's why I suggested you to try it.

[nyuszika7h]

It's already bad enough that pinned messages can override the user's notification settings, and that's the default behavior for pinned messages. Let's not make it even worse.

There's no reason you can't make your group a supergroup even if there's only two members. I don't see any reason not to do so unless it's important that new members don't see past message history.

I'm not sure permanent message pinning for things like rules is particularly useful. Users are expected to read the group description anyway (though sure, that's limited in space) and a welcome bot (which can also link to a message by ID in public supergroups, rather than repeating the message every time) is more likely to get stubborn users to read the rules.

[esanumIT]

Well, you just gave the counter-argument to your whole statement in the second half of your second paragraph ... "unless it's important that new members don't see past message history." So, to have a tool for those cases, would be nice... since this request.

[paul-arthurthiery]

The way I envisioned it, this feature would be only applicable to groups (not supergroups since this ability to create so many notifications can be overused) and not at all linked to welcome messages or rules. Rather, I thought of this like something I didn't know at the time which is the Slack feature @MasterGroosha talked about. I feel that it is a basic component of chat clients to be able to notify everyone when a crucial piece of information is being spread around (say a work file or an event taking place). This is why I asked for this function, because in such a basic scenario I don't believe that users should go the extra mile of creating a bot or writing their own clients.
But well... that's just my view, I can't force anybody to implement it :)

[iKenshu]

This should be so useful :/

[auchri]

@iKenshu Useful or annoying, it depends.

[iKenshu]

@auchri Yeah, indeed, maybe only admins can use this and not every member of the group

[stek29]

@iKenshu then why can't they just pin messages?

[iKenshu]

@stek29 Maybe they want the push notification for something urgent or important, the pin messages don't do that I think

[stek29]

@iKenshu They do.

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