hide channels suggestions

[arkencl]

Hey there people,

we sometimes get suggestions to introduce roles to reduce the number of channels, and we did try that once and it was annoying because new comers would get redirected to non existent channels without a certain role. Couldn't we make productive mute a bit more expansive to handle that? Default mutes every off-topic channel as it stands and you can provide categories or further channels to ignore in the args. It then applies a role with that exact name (one role per person) but mutes different channels depending on how it was invoked and if we really wanted could make it of indefinite duration (with some way to revert)?

Just some throwing some thoughts around, what do you think?

[markhc]

That can quickly get out of hand though, even if we only allow 1 role per user. The max allowed number of roles in a server is 250. TPH currently has 98 i think. We could try to reuse roles when multiple users select the same channels to hide, but the code for that wouldnt look pretty.

I could see this working if we had the roles we had before (that would hide certain categories or channels) and allowed users to grant themselves said roles.

e.g tph!hidechannels off-topic general spotlight 24 hours

[arkencl]

Oh yeah, most definitely. I must have completely forgotten about the role limit on a discord server (and the fact that it would spam our role overview on the server), that's quite a shame though. Putting that aside, I think the main problem about having the category or roles that spanned several categories was just what I mentioned in the comment before yours about the redirection of newcomers on the server. Which is nonexistent if it's the other way around i.e. more knowledgeable users that can hide channels themselves.

I changed the title of the issue since it makes more sense to view this separately from productive mute since some users might want to mute everything but social chat channels from their sidebar. And those two things would be at odd with my initial suggestion. Although the very possibility of this should be up for discussion, since we don't want to necessarily want to promote people just shitposting in our social chat channels.

@Moe-Szyslak What do you think about this?

[ItsAzaria]

Perhaps on a per category basis it may work for roles.

I wonder what the permission override limits are per channel, if there's no limit on that it would remove the need to rely on roles too.

It's a difficult one for sure especially with the limits discord has