Enforce Read status administratively

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

In Talk settings we wish for a administratively choice to be able to enforce the "read status" to either "ON" or "OFF" in Nextcloud talk. When a user turn this "OFF", any message sent to that user is instantly shown as "read" (from senders point of view). Our company wish to enforce this to "ON" (no, this is not a GDPR issue), but it is not possible.

Describe the solution you'd like

A setting using OCC, or inside nextcloud.config would do fine, or a parameter button in administration settings.

Describe alternatives you've considered

For web browsers I successfully removed "share my read-status and show the read-status of others" using theming/custom CSS. However this is not good solution as users uses mobile client and/or desktop talk client etc, and I can not remove it there.

Additional context

Using OCC user:setting and listing a specified user and his/her settings I see this:

spreed:
signaling_ticket_secret: ORnGhYNoApWAUgT9VpuQgocdauA/dUowcwokQ2JSZcBUe..... snipp!
changelog: 50
typing_privacy: 1
read_status_privacy: 1

I would then try the following command to change "read_statusprivacy" from "1" to "0" for that user:

sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ user:setting "user" read_status_privacy: 0

But in stead of changing the current value it create a new read_status_privacy: 0 for that user in. the bottowm of the listed settings. The new one has no function :-/

[nickvergessen]

Changing it in this table is not enough, but yeah.
Unfortunately the described feature is not really high on our priority list. But this doesn't mean that we don't like the idea or that we are against this feature per se. Quite the opposite! 🙂

There are many way to get new features in Nextcloud:

1. The easiest and most straight forward way (especially here at Github): pull request.
   Nextcloud is completely Free Software, this means that everyone is welcome to join and to contribute. If you or anyone else want to work on this feature, this would be great! We appreciate every pull request, and we are definitely able to help in case of questions, reviews, etc.

2. We have a category for Freelancers in our forum. Another option would be to post an offer there and try to find a freelancer who want to work on it.

3. The most direct way for a company or organization to get the issue addressed is to get a Enterprise Subscription. This includes everything to enable you to run Nextcloud in a productive environment with guaranteed SLA's and more. The Enterprise Subscription also includes optional professional services such as custom development. Feel free to reach out to us. We are happy to explore the possibilities how to make Nextcloud fit your needs.