It really depends on how Administration sets up the Mattermost Environment (teams / channels) right? If you have many teams and little amount of channels, with the same name, I can see the issue that you are mentioning @jasonblais. On the other hand if you have litte amount of teams and many channels this won’t be an issue. In our set up we found it frustrating to have too many teams because of the following reason:
- slash commands have to installed for each team,
- members have to be maintained for each team,
- channel switching does not work in between teams.
Here are my two proposal to get back on this topic.
- Create a shortcut to switch teams. Then I could quickly switch the team and switch the channel afterwards. This solution would be independent from how you have set up your teams / channels.
2 . Switch channel function (Ctrl + K, Cmd + K) shows either (a) all channels of all teams or (b) channels of the current team. We add a setting to the user account preferences. I have added an attachment how the option could look like in the account settings.
What do you think?