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Allow anonymous use of the chat [$250] #604
Description
So currently, Rocket.Chat is a very much a Slack clone. But my main issue with Slack is that it is not open enough. So I would like an option to make Rocket.Chat more open. What I mean by that is that is that users can come and start reading what is happening on public channels without registration. So when a not-logged in user would open root address, they would get to the normal main screen, with all channels listed and so on. When they would open a channel, they could see what is happening there, but the message input box would be grayed out and a message to register/login to post would be there.
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Reacted by Christopher Dembia, Xabier Vázquez Gallardo, Noé Brucy, Pierre Ozoux, Trevor Solace, Kent Shikama, contextlimit, Jack, Jakub Kruczek, Mustapha Turki and 17 more
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mitar commentedon Aug 28, 2015
What does "Registration Required" set to false do? I have not seen any effect?
frabrunelle commentedon Sep 13, 2015
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I am considering switching away from Slack and this is one of the main features I am looking for (being able to access and read the public channels without registration).
AdrianoCahete commentedon Sep 13, 2015
This needs to be an option for each channel. If the creator wants it, the channel can be read for unregistred users.
mitar commentedon Sep 22, 2015
Or written to. I would really like that it can be like: user comes, sees channels (maybe flagged as such), and can read them, and can write an reply. And if the are not logged in, they have also to fill in the name in the status bar (which stays stored locally).
mitar commentedon Sep 23, 2015
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rwakida commentedon Sep 23, 2015
@mitar Registration Required is not used at this time.
mitar commentedon Sep 23, 2015
Heh, a setting which does nothing. ;-) OK, this is good, then it can be used for this particular purpose. So I would suggest that we make it so:
I would say that concept of private and public channels should be for some other ticket/task.
geekgonecrazy commentedon Sep 23, 2015
for sure agree with @AdrianoCahete this needs to be maybe global to allow it. But needs to be a per channel setting.
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patcon commentedon Apr 3, 2017
fwiw, if this is critical to anyone, riot chat allows world-readable channels already: https://chat.tomesh.net/#/directory
rasos commentedon Apr 23, 2018
Where can I define, which public channels are listed in the left column when arriving anonymously at the start page? Currently I see "undefined" only and directory does not allow to search (which is okay for users, but it should list public channels).
lunitic commentedon Apr 23, 2018
@rasos Make the channel/rrom default and it will be showed there
rasos commentedon Apr 23, 2018
@lunitic tnx, but where do I set a channel room to become default? Can't find it in any menu. We're on RC 0.62. I only can set it as favorite which is a per user setting.
flantascience commentedon Apr 23, 2018
leonardorocc0 commentedon Jun 29, 2020
Hi there
I don't see this is possible to make some channels available to anonymous users.
There is a public/private setting for each channel and the default flag but it doesn't mean I can exclude anonymous user from writing or seeing other public channels.
Do you think this could be added as a feature?
Thank you!
Merge pull request RocketChat#604 from WideChat/develop_pwa-catchup-f…
FynnMazurkiewicz commentedon Jul 2, 2021
Adding to what @leonardorocc0 is reporting: I have allowed anonymous write on my instance (3.14.0). I have disabled finding public channels via the directory or spotlight search for
anonymousandguestroles. It seems theanonymousrole is only assigned to users that register with a username via the "Sign in to talk anonymously" button. Now, an anonymous user without a nickname can find any public channel via the spotlight search and it is impossible to turn this off.This mislead me to almost configure a security hole simply because I thought that if I disable finding public channels via spotlight on
anonymousandguest, this will also cascade to the actual anonymous user without a username.Is there any possibility to disable the spotlight results of public channels for anonymous users without a username?