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As we build High Priority Messaging and Acknowledgements, it will allow us to explore the option of adding some sort of message receipt to the Mattermost platform. Since HPM is more aligned to the explicit acknowledgement of a message receipt compared to the implicit nature of automatic read-receipts, and also since it we believe it to be less disruptive to users. This hypothesis is further driven home by the fact that HPM will be reserved for “Important” and “Urgent”, messages we believe it to be less disruptivemessages deemed Important or Urgent - and won’t be something that affects all the messages in a channel.
Ultimately, it’s clear that some functionality is needed for:
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