Whispering in groups containing non staff

[tobiaseigen]

Continuing the discussion from Discourse as a private email support portal:

@sam

In the context of a message in a support category, whispers should be visible and usable by all users who have access to the support category. This means that in some cases non-moderators may have access to the whisper feature.

@sam

Whisper works everywhere, but whisper functionality is staff only.

@sam Can you confirm that this is the case, or did the original idea survive? I think that might be an interesting idea.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

@tobiaseigen

or did the original idea survive?

No whispers is staff only, any expansion of this concept will be a nightmare to change.

[tobiaseigen]

Cool. Thanks for confirming.

[rishabh]

@JammyDodger

I believe group access to whispers was added recently:

A new feature was added to the latest Discourse, which allows specifying additional groups whose members would be able to see/create whispers. [Screen Shot 2022-07-01 at 12.00.47 pm]

But all groups would be able to see all whispers.