What is the functionality of hide channel, what doest it mean. While checking for max channel limit for a user, do we consider hide channel also or only active channel?
Hi @Vijay_Kumar,
Welcome to Sendbird Community — thanks for contributing!
The hide channel functionality lets a user to hide a group channel from their group channel list. Hiding a channel gives users the ability to hide/archive channels so that they can focus on channels that need the most attention.
‘Hide’ means that the group channel is hidden from the user’s ‘my group channels’ list but will reappear in their list when there is a new message in the group channel.
(The allow_auto_unhide option should be set to true for hiding a channel)
‘Archive’ means that the group channel is always hidden from the user’s ‘my group channels’ list unless the channel has been explicitly unhidden.
(The allow_auto_unhide option should be set to false for archiving a channel)
As for the max channel limit, hiding channels alone does not prevent them from being counted towards the user’s joined channel limit but it helps in having faster responses from our servers.
