no friction channel view with option to prepare a message

[ciekawy]

Currently for anonymous user the message input is disabled. I'd like to provide users an option to browse a chanel even before they decide to sign up (and also to reduce MAU for logged in users as they may just read messages but not decide to write any - still with instant option to start writing).

Currently I did a hack:

• opening channel as 'anonymous' user
• appending send-message to channel.data.own_capabilities - this makes the messageInput enabled
• patching ChannelService.sendMessage so upon send, user walked through the sign in/sign up if needed, anonymous user gets disconnected and after fresh ChannelService.init with real user, original ChannelService.sendMessage is restored and flow dispatched to it.

Would be great to see this all handled internally by stream-chat-angular

[szuperaz]

Thanks for your feedback. We don't have plans to support this workflow in the near future. However further down the line, we might add related features to the SDK.