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Messages From Webhook in Announcement Channels Do Not Publish

(#4716) Feature Open: Under consideration channels community messaging notifications self-hosting
by Falco edited

Current problem

A UX problem currently exists where messages from webhooks in an announcement channel are not auto-published to followed channels. For these messages to publish, someone has to manually publish the message. This is an issue as of Fluxer 2026.1107.20335.

Proposed change

There are two proposed changes that I'm providing, the first being the most ideal and the second being the least ideal:
  1. Have webhook messages be auto-published. If someone is managing many announcement channels across multiple communities, it becomes incredibly difficult to remember to publish these messages, especially if webhook messages are being sent by another party and not the creator of the announcement channels.
  1. Make it incredibly obvious to the users who have permissions to publish these messages that they haven't been published yet. This is an improvement over the current UX, but manually publishing many webhook messages can still be a chore.

Platform

macOS, Windows, Linux, Web, Self-hosting

  1. Fullest changed the status from Needs info to Under consideration

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Comment by Fullest
FullestReviewer 1 vote edited 3 replies
Status changed from Needs triage to Needs info
Hi, I tested this using some test communities on the main fluxer.app instance and think there is actually a UX improvement to be made here, but I could not repro the bug as described. Canary Desktop 2026.1106.11354, Web 2026.1107.32732, Linux 7.2.15-200.fc44.x86_64 (x64), Electron 44.10.0, Chrome 152.0.7977.169, Node 24.22.1, Locale en-US Specifically, the issue I think is present here is that there is no button prompting the user to publish a message that gets sent in through a webhook. In order to publish a webhook message in an announcement channel, you have to know to do the following:
  1. Hover the message
  2. Click the megaphone icon in the hover to publish
This is probably because the publish prompt only shows for messages you send into the announcement channel (other users don't get the publish prompt for messages sent by another user either btw), but perhaps webhook messages should show the prompt to anyone who has the ability to publish messages in an announcement channel. What do you think?
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Comment by Falco
Falco OP1 vote 2 replies
I can confirm your findings. Because of this, this post would be better classified as a feature rather than a bug. There's an opportunity here to make it more clear that webhook messages need to be manually published. But also for ease of use, I think it would be even better for webhook messages to auto-publish.
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Comment by Fullest
FullestReviewer 1 vote 1 reply
I'm down for that. I'll flip this over to a feature request. If you wouldn't mind editing your post to reflect what we've found here that would be helpful!
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