Jonathan Daugherty

Oh, thanks - we didn't know about that!

Interesting - I'll have to take a look.

> Oh, interesting. It appears matterhorn does render the fallback message if the message type is in_channel but not ephemeral. Can you elaborate on what you observed to draw this...

It would also help if you could provide an example of how such a message gets posted. For example, if I go to the web client and post a message...

Would it be possible for you to: 1. Enable logging in Matterhorn (with `-l` at startup, or with `/log-start` at runtime) 2. Post such a message as demonstrated above while...

Thanks; your first log gave me enough to go on. The issue is that our support for "ephemeral" posts is very limited. Currently Matterhorn doesn't look at any aspect of...

Oh, not at all - this is definitely worth fixing and just goes to show how often we Matterhorn developers encounter this kind of message (never). :)

From Harrison H., ephemeral posts persist only until the client is restarted. For our purposes is this equivalent to another message abstraction we already have, so that's good. Now that...

@nivex out of curiosity, do you run Matterhorn from a binary release, or do you build it from source?

After asking around on the Mattermost dev team, it turns out that the docs are not quite right: the fallback message is intended to be displayed in place of the...