Thinking out loud, but one concept I would find interesting is to link this to groups.
On each chat channel you would have an auto_joined_by_groups option and essentially when a user is created or joining a group we look for associated channels.
I like that it allows to create a custom start experience based on group and also that it will automatically hint to interesting channels when you join a new group.
AFAIK, other platforms tend to just make you join everything you can interact with.
Yeah in most your always auto joined and then you leave if you don’t want to be part of it. interesting idea to link to specific groups, but I wonder should it be another chat option?
Create chat channel options wold be:
Topic
Group
Category
For sure the feedback we have had so far is that it’s weird to have to go and find chat channels to join them. Chat is instant and let’s go.
I agree.
No need to maintain history to “un-join” everyone.
Anyone who wishes to do so, could either mute or just leave a channel.
However, I would of course make auto-join an administrator thing and not allow every user to spam channels on everyone else.