We reserve our “permanent” chat channels for TL_3, but I just had a temporary forum-wide chat event which worked well, and I was able to close the channel and archive to a topic - which is actually extremely handy and I’d love to do that without ending a channel.
[TL;DR: humble suggestion]
- What about a similar Staff option for “Archive chat channel from [date] to [date] to New Topic” ?
That would do the same thing as archiving a channel, except for a limited range of dates, without removing the messages from the channel, and wouldn’t close the topic. That way if someone’s trying to recall something that was discussed last week, or if we’re needing to mod something someone saw but didn’t flag, we could pull a limited archive from specific dates to a public or Staff topic and search it with the normal forum tools (or even CTRL-F in the browser) or PM it to someone who’d like to do that without the need to manually scan the timeline for which chat messages or dates we’re looking for.