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Recurring Tasks (Task Manager Feature Requests)
Have the ability to have tasks that reoccur at intervals (which can be set either as a fixed date or variable 'smart' date') be part of the task manager. Example: take out trash every week on Friday (this would be considered a variable 'smart date'), Go Grocery Shopping on the 15th of every month (a fixed date).
Read receipt
I would like to see if/when an item has been read. In a private chat this would be the day/time that the message was read; in a forum perhaps implemented as a "seen by #" count that could be expanded by clicking to list those that have viewed the message/post/reply
Convert teams & forums between each other (private -> public & vice-versa
I realize this may not be an easy task, but its something that after a long time slack finally implemented and it is useful more frequently than I would have thought...
Often we are discussing something in a private group and end up invitng so many people it would make more sense to have it as an open channel... Having the history "copied" over, is something essential however...
The opposite also happens in some cases where a public channel starts taking on a strategic twist, and we want to segreagate some content from teh entire team be it for a long time or just temporarily (for example when we do bugathons/hackathons, we start with a public channel, and then convert to private when devs want to just get their heads down... This isnt the best example but its one I've come accross)...
This functionality would also be very useful in importing from Slack... I have discussed/proposed a possible workflow that would allow us to import private & public channels from slack instead of the public ones only as per today's limitation.
The proposed idea is:
- Admin disables all users on Slack
- Admin (or group of admins) convert all private channels to public and rename them with a prefix (ex: priv_****) or something in order to keep track of them
- Admin runs import to Ryver
- [Missing ryver functionality proposed>>] At this point, in Ryver, the Admin can make all the priv_*** channels private, and rename them appropriately
- After doing this, the Admin can then invite the users into Ryver.
- Migration completed :)
I assume there would be some manual work (in slack: renaming, making public, and then in ryver: rnaming, making private), but I would argue this is something that most admins would be willing to do... at least for groups that matter... We have some very large private groups, and its one of the reasons we dont migrate from Slack paid into Ryver yet... (This and admin restrictions for group creation)... Anyways, I'm not sure how complex this may be from a data standpoint within Ryver, but it would help with the 2 areas... Importing & General communication flow...
Bookmark or "Favorite" a chat, comment or post
The current Reminder feature on Posts/Comments can be used as a poor man's bookmarking mechanism, but would prefer an explicit way to bookmark both posts/comments AND particular chat messages, and have an easy way to get to them in a "bookmarks" or "favorites" list.
Custom user-centric tagging would be a bonus as an extension of this feature...allowing the user to put a #tag on any chat, post or comment that is just for that user's reference in future searches.
Generate "Invite URL" for inviting users
Would like to generate a URL that can be shared on a web page or via email, which people can click to join my Ryver account. Would like to have control over which email domains are allowed.
Sort teams and forums
Ability to drag and drop to change the order of your teams and forums in the sidebar
Sticky Posts to Chat Channels
We often find ourselves forgetting/losing track of important posts because they're off in the separate 'Posts' tab rather than right there in the chat channel. As such, a feature that allowed posts (or even just a single post) to be stickied to the top of the chat window would be really useful.
It might be useful to make this an admin-only feature/add an option to only allow admins to do this.
Voice Messages
It would be great if we could record a voice message and send it as a chat message. In the app, the chat message would show that there is an audio file and allow you to click to listen to it. Kind of like a mini MP3 embed.
Bulk Delete Chat Messages, Topics, Tasks and Notifications
Sometimes, for whatever reason, we need to be able to delete more than one message, topic, task or notification. If it's only a couple it's no big deal. But if it's more than a few, it's very annoying and time consuming to have to do it one by one. Would be nice to be able to delete anything in Ryver with a system similar to when you pick a few chat messages and convert them to a topic or task.
Mobile push notifications unreliable
For my users, we've been having significant iissues with the mobile notifications in the Ryver app. We will be away from our desk for the weekend but still not get mobile alerts. I've heard from Android devices but I'm not sure about iOS because we don't have many.
Also, I have noticed that you have to actually have the app open and running in the background for it to work if it will send notifications at all.
I have in app and regular notifications enabled, but is there ssomething I'm doing wrong? Thank you.
Ryver localization / internationalization
Hello guys, I appreciate your work, I am glad our small team based in Czechia will have a communication platform for "affordable" price ;)
I hope you had started Ryver development with future internationalization in mind and would not have problems adding more languages to your app in future. We are just fine with English, but maybe one day when you start adding languages I will gladly help you with translation to Czech :-) I believe that is a load of your mind, right? :))
I wish you all best and thank you for both being smart and brave and giving Ryver to us.
Ondrej
Group teams, forums or users in nav bar (like a folder structure)
My suggestion is that may have sub privates teams like a sub-folders.
A big difference
Notification keywords
Allow users to define keywords for notifications. This would be a mirror of Slack's "My Keywords" ability within the Notifications settings. Essentially a user can define a list of keywords (such as "emergency"). Then anytime that word is used in a Forum or Topic the users gets a notification.
Notification when someone/ other people else is/are typing in the chat.
Just a "Bob and Steve are typing" at the bottom of the chat to let the other people know that the person is actually responging.
Restrict access to uploaded files, now they are downloadable freely from the internet.
Hi Ryvers!
You have created the most useful communication tool we have ever tested and kudos for making it free!
We have two major concerns:
- Can’t install it on premise.
- Uploaded files go to Amazon cloud and are accessible by simply sharing the link even to people that are not members or guests to our Ryver organization.
Solving either of these concerns would resolve the other – if we had on-premise installation we could host our files locally, and if the uploaded files were encrypted or hosted in directories that are not publicly accessable from the internet we would not have issue with Ryver not being on-premise.
I would propose two types of solution that would not require on-premise installation:
- A quick and dirty fix in the form of a checkbox that allows the administrator to disable all file uploads for everyone (at least untill the second solution is implemented).
- Some sort of cookie or session authetication that would allow file download from the amazon storage only if the user is currently logged onto our Ryver. This can be further extended to special group file access but I understand that that can take some more time to develop.
You have made communicating and sharing ideas and files so easy that I am sure I would not be able to put forward policies on which files should and shouldn’t be shared in Ryver, so why limit people when we can make it secure and let them communicate freely.
I wish you all the positive energy in the universe and I hope you get the success you deserve!
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