persistent selects

[CottageDwellingCat]

add a "persistent" field to selects that if checked would have the client store the users selection, and only send an event of it was changed. This would be useful for bots granting roles, as users could quickly see what roles they had selected and the bot would only have to respond to an event when they changed. Another possible use is for storing users settings (like data collection opt outs) if the select is stored the user will always know what they selected.

[figgyc]

You can basically already do this, just update the message with the select in it and change the default option to true for each option the user selected when they use the select.

[CottageDwellingCat]

That value can't be set per-user, so it doesen't work for public messages.

[IanMitchell]

Our plan is to use forms for this - selects won't become persistent. You can use ephemeral messages with default values to somewhat achieve this today, though