Channel Categories

[itskenny0]

Hi there,

I would like to request the feature to categorize channels into different groups in the sidebar.
I've made a mockup to illustrate my idea:

Do you think this is a feasible request?
I'm currently using custom CSS to highlight the channels in different colors depending on category, but I'd like grouping a lot more.

Thanks a lot for your great work on this awesome project!

Best,
kenny

P.S.: If someone wants to do CSS highlighting like me, this is how I do it:

/* ---------------------------------------------- */
/* Special rooms */
[title^="incroom"] { 
  background-image: linear-gradient( rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0) , rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.3) , rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0) );
}

[title^="svc-"] { 
  background-image: linear-gradient( rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0) , rgba(34, 104, 216, 0.3) , rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0) );
}

[title^="support"] { 
  background-image: linear-gradient( rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0) , rgba(0, 255, 33, 0.15) , rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0) );
}

It ends up looking like this:

[TwizzyDizzy]

Hi @itskenny0

interesting thought, I like it... how would you do the sorting that every user can set in their preference? Would you apply those settings per-group? Or would, for example, a new message in the group Marketing (channel "social media") trigger the sorting mechanism to put the whole group on top or only "social media" onto top of the Marketing group?

I guess those type of issues have to be considered and you have to define that for every kind of possible combination of settings. If that's figured out, this might be a nice addition to RC.

Cheers
Thomas

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Please have in mind, that I am no member of the Rocket.Chat team, so anything I say is no guarantee that anything will or will not happen. Just sharing my thoughts here.

[TwizzyDizzy]

@rocket-cat label add enhancement

[peterkogit]

I support, a very good idea. If any plans for her?

[appelmoesje]

I tried to do this with javascript but it is a pain in the ass the maintain and to explain to my support team what not to do. I would really like this feature too so I can implement it more easily!

[marceloschmidt]

Relatable: RocketChat/Rocket.Chat#658

[Gamey404]

I rally miss that feature its impossible to have a none messy server without clearly behind many competitors there :/

[vtexperts]

Definitely a must have feature. Would love if someone could share a JS/CSS script which does something similar.

[hpvb]

I would like to see this also.

[theSmokingFrog]

It would be really great to have that feature. Though this approach only hits channels.
As a User with a quite big amount of Favorites (combined from Users and channels) it would be gorgeous to not only group channels, it would be great if auch a functionality would also work within the Favorites.

The whole thing would increase the usability and clarity of the Rocket.Chats Sidebar so much.

[workdojos]

Over 2 years now, and nothing that comes close to providing this crucial functionality?

[MilanObrenovic]

I want to use rocketchat but i can't use it literally because of this missing feature. This should be the basic number 1 feature to begin with. Discord, slack, teams and others have this feature, but rocketchat doesn't.

Seems like no one cares to do anything about it for over 5 years. I'll have to avoid using rocketchat if no one cares to add this fundamental feature.

[Xeckt]

Any talk of this being done? It's a deal breaker for larger organisations and is the main reason me and my team haven't begun to use it.

[D1reW0lf]

Hi all.
I know that RC has the “team” option, but frankly the way it’s done does not replace a “categories” sub-division. Besides it’s confusing for my users that the team itself is a chat and that they have to click on the # on the top right to actually see the other (sub-)chat rooms.

So I just want to add my “me too” to this suggestion.
Thanks.