Channels: hide the name of the author of posts

[veritas]

add functionality to hide the author of posts in a channel or replace it with the channel name

[r10s]

what is the reasoning/usecase you have in mind with that feature proposal?

[veritas]

if there are co-authors of posts or if the channel is run on behalf of the community

[steko]

What do you think about this approach? There is a separate identity who owns the channel:

How to create a channel with shared administration

Background There are many situations where it is useful to have more than one person who is able to post to a Delta Chat channel. Common use cases include: chatmail relay operators local communities The current implementation has a 1:1 between the profile creating the channel and the channel itself, but there is a straightforward way to share a profile among a group of trusted people, even without being in the same place/local network How to create a Delta Chat channel with mul…

[ian]

Related:

Requesting a new bot for coauthoring, pinned messages and to resend recent chat log in a broadcast channel

(Let me redraft this topic with more actionable wording) A publisher sends a private message to the bot and receives some help text in return. Then typing /new there would create a new channel and a corresponding private control group and invite the publisher user there. The initial publisher may invite further co-authors and bots (e.g., RSS & Atom feed reader) to this control group. Slash commands are allowed, but only for the original publisher initially (tokens are made up): /help /admin …