Ability to follow news channels in some sort of special DM channel

[lumap]

Feature Request

I think that being able to follow a news channel into a special DM channel would be a nice feature.

How would it work?

When a user wants to subscribe to a news channel, they could choose either to post it in a server or in a special DM channel (like the official Discord System).

Why would it be useful?

When a message in a news gets posted and published, it's just published into all the servers that follow that channel. A user may not know a message has been published as they have to manually check the servers following those channels. This DM channel would notify the user that a message has been published so they will not miss any important message.

[TwilightZebby]

A user may not know a message has been published as they have to manually check the servers following those channels

Current solution (or workaround) is to set the receiving channel's notification setting to "All Messages" (Granted, this does mean the channel, it's parent category (if in one), and the Server cannot have their notifications 'muted' in order for this to work). That way, you get the notifications as you would a DM (and also the white unread message marker next to the Server's icon or Folder if you put it in one).

[Longhouse81]

The downside of this method is you only receive a sound alert on desktop, not a real ping, personally, I'm working on a bot that has a sticky msg at the bottom that pings a role on a post, but I'm sure if you look around there will be plenty bot's that have this feature or are only focused on this task