Our group is migrating from several other services and is concerned about the loss of openness. In our case, we would support anyone from the general public to read any of the Open Forums (similar to Gitter chat).

This would be especially important if we were to post links from our Open Forums to a public site - currently, unless the reader has an account within our group, then that link is useless. We would like to have some switch setting (via Eddy Bot) that would enable this support.

Obviously, the anonymous reader would not be able to comment or make any modification; but at least this feature would help our transparency and ease some of members hesitance to move across to Ryver.

When you click reply on a message the author is included but I think also including time/date could be a good idea. It would make it easier to find the context both because you might more easily recall the conversation if you know when it happened and it will be easier to find if you want to scroll to it.

After a number of tries, the browser gives up trying to reconnect. That probably makes sense, but instead of giving up, it should just wait longer and longer between tries. Maybe even as much as every 15 minutes between tries. But not totally give up.

Right now, if you've left yourself in the chat tab for a team or forum, the name turns yellow if a new chat messages comes in.

It'd be nice if perhaps an icon (or emoji) were to appear before the name in the list - with different ones for new chat vs. new post vs. new file notification. It would greatly help finding where the new content is if you have a bunch of teams/forums.

Unless i am missing something, i can currently add only individuals to a team. In a cross-functional or matrix organization, it means that i will be doing a lot of manual additions, one person at a time. Instead, it will be much easier, and much more reflective of the groups-interacting-with-group picture you had delineated in your product announcement, If i can add a team to a new team.

It will save a lot of manual additions, and not only in the first time. If i later make changes to a team, these changes will be automatically reflected in all teams that include them ;-)

Eliminate double notifications when mentioned and getting notifications for a team. Only want the "mentioned" notification when mentioned. If not mentioned, then still want the "commented" notification (with notifications enabled).

How do private teams communicate with each other? If Events has a question for IT, but no one from the IT dept is in the Event dept Ryver Team, their options are to DM one of us, email us, or walk over and talk to one of us. All fine options, but it'd be great if there was a way to include others in a conversation through Ryver.

If there's a discussion in a forum and there's a question that someone from the Membership dept could answer, the asker would either have to wait for someone from membership to see the question and reply, or @mention a person from membership in the chat and hope that person is available.

I propose groups which can be used in an @mention. It'd also be great for administrative controls.

In the first exampIe, I see an IT group that contains the members of the IT dept. Someone in Events could @IT and the members of the IT group would get a notification of the question. Ideally we could reply to the notification to post back to their chat with an answer, without having to be part of their private team or see what else they're discussing. This might also work in a Post - if the @IT group was mentioned in the Post, we could comment on that post in that team, without seeing anything else in the Team. That would help break down some silos.

In the second example, all the members of the @membership group would get a notification of the new forum message, where they could reply directly.

Another benefit to the groups would be from an administrative standpoint, if all members of a group could be added to a Team. This would help with my Events example, since there are usually several events happening and each event might have it's own Team.

It would be nice if we could include an emoji in the Subject line of a Post.

For example, it would be nice to be able to make a post about an upcoming birthday with something like "Happy Birthday, Jason! :birthday:" and have it show the cake emoji.

Currently, doing the above will print out the words ":birthday:" instead of showing the emoji.

It would be awesome to have the ability to share buttons for popular social media platforms. This way if there is an amazing post and you want to encourage people to become guest you can lure through great content shares. I understand it may not be a product priority but social media sharing is undeniably essential.

Show the title and forum name only (or only show the forum name in the main post stream), and move the byline information(how this was posted, by who) to the actual byline (Date).

Topics on Ryver are an important tool that we use every day, even though we do not use them as a forum. We use topics as a way for our team leaders to post important information and procedures that our team members could look up and use when they need it.

We have gotten to the point where we have too many topics, and it is hard to find what we are looking for, in a timely manner, and efficiently.

We have tried everything to keep our topics organized, but as it is currently, topics are very limited.

Here are our collective suggestions for Ryver Topics, that would make our experience so much better:

1. Topics should be able to be categorized, either by allowing tags in their titles, in order to differentiate different kinds of topics, or any other clever solution that the Ryver Devs could come up with.

2. Topics should be able to be reordered freely, or at least have some sorting options, other than automatically being sorted the publishing date. Sort by A-Z, by #hashtags….

We understand that this might not be the intended use for topics, and if the Ryver Devs consider that topics dont need those features, we kindly suggest to please implement a new feature in Ryver, where we can maintain all this important information, and have better controls and organizations over it.

Make it possible for the admin/owner to see when a user last time was online, And see witch forum/team he/she was most active in.

I like Ryver's Topic implementation, but having recently migrated from Slack, I feel that having to "quickly reply" on a message without having to create a long-live Topic is definitely missing to Ryver.

In the past when using Slack, I liked some discussions started from a message which was not flagged as "important" like we would do with a Topic.

I really see such "light thread" as an added value to Topics, both could live independently.

Seeing as there is a personal tasks feature it would make sense to be able to give view/edit permissions on them. Managers may want to see their direct report's tasks. And high up people may want their PA to organise theirs.

As a company who typically has our users search across previous chats/posts, when reading the subsequent thread, the date does not include the year. 

This creates lots of situations where someone looking for data ends up reading a thread with no context of how old it is. 

Below you can see when searching I get the full date, but once I'm now looking at that thread, which may have been contributed to over a couple of years there is no year reference.

Thanks!