Pin/Unpin functionality

[geekgonecrazy]

I'm a bit of a meteor noob.. Ok total noob. But here is my attempt to add pin/unpin functionality.

This would add the fields pts and pinned to the messages.

pts being pinned time stamp. This is needed to allow grabbing subsets of pinned as well as displaying when message was pinned.

Related to #310

I don't have all i18n files updated either.

[rodrigok]

Looks really awesome, you are not so crazy after all 😸

[geekgonecrazy]

Lol! This is debatable!

[rodrigok]

Just waiting for the interface implementation.

[geekgonecrazy]

Soon as the tab system is figured out and the UI respect of edit/delete/pin that should be pretty easy

[marceloschmidt]

Tab system is ready. @geekgonecrazy are you working on this implementation, os shall I pick up from where you left?

[geekgonecrazy]

@marceloschmidt if you want to pick up on that feel free. Heh i've got so many different pieces up in the air.

[marceloschmidt]

I'll do it ;) thanks

[marceloschmidt]

@geekgonecrazy As per your implementation, one should only be able to pin their own messages? I'm not sure that is really useful... I think there are two alternative implementations for this:

1. Users can pin anyone's message and the pinned messages will appear for that user only.
2. Admins can pin anyone's message and those messages are displayed for everybody in the channel.

@RocketChat/owners what do you think?

[geekgonecrazy]

That's pretty much how I was thinking. Admins / future moderators / channel creator can pin channel wide.

I was kinda thinking it might be broken up pins for this behavior and staring being at the individual level

[sampaiodiego]

I think pinned messages should be global.. only admins can do it..

if you (normal user) wants to "save" a message, you should star it! or some another term for that.. but it should be two different commands to not confuse people.

[graywolf336]

I think anyone in the channel should be able to pin messages - for small teams there isn't a need to add complexity. So, maybe this needs to be configurable instead of just one set way.

[geekgonecrazy]

Yeah I agree small teams I can see this being useful for pinning links etc during research phase and want others to be able to access it

[sampaiodiego]

yeah.. it should be configurable..

but I think that you should pin everyone's messages and it will be always visible pinned to everyone. like @marceloschmidt said on second option.