[DISCOURSE] - Strengthening community safety in group chats

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At Discourse, we are committed to fostering safe and healthy online communities. To support this, we’re introducing an important update that allows forum administrators to access and manage group chats within their communities.

This update ensures that community leaders can effectively manage group chat memberships, enforce guidelines, and respond to safety concerns when needed. It also helps communities align with evolving online safety legislation, providing admins with the necessary tools to maintain a secure and welcoming space for all members.

We believe this change will empower admins to uphold community standards while continuing to provide a space for meaningful and productive discussions. As always, we remain dedicated to building features that balance user experience, moderation needs, and community well-being.

This feature will be available for all Discourse sites in the coming days, and was added in these two pull requests:

github.com/discourse/discourse

FEATURE: Allow admins to remove users from chat DMs

main ← feature/admin-remove-users-from-chat-dms

opened 10:13AM - 17 Feb 25 UTC

Drenmi

+375 -17

### What is this feature? This feature allows admins to remove users from cha…nnels. This is allowed for category channels and group DMs, but not one-on-one DMs, as that wouldn't make any sense. 😉 **Screenshot:** <img width="263" alt="Screenshot 2025-02-19 at 10 59 49 AM" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/049aa77d-67ae-42f8-a190-f640e4285118" /> ### Implementation details This PR attempts to follow the existing structure as much as possible. The major moving parts are: - A new back-end service for removing users from channels. - A guardian extension checking the ability to do so. This is also propagated to the front-end. - A new method in the front-end chat API. - UI changes. - Tests. ### Known limitations - When removing a member from a group DM, the header doesn't update to reflect this. This is a pre-existing issue. (It also doesn't update when adding members.) I have created a task to fix this separately. - The terms `users` and `members` are mixed throughout the code base. I tried as best I could to follow the terminology of the _directly adjacent code_. We could potentially fix this up later.

github.com/discourse/discourse

FEATURE: Allow admins to access group chats

main ← feature/admins-access-group-chats

opened 05:45AM - 21 Feb 25 UTC

Drenmi

+36 -1

### What is this change? In #31366, we added the ability for admins to remove… people from group chats. However, that only works as long as the admin is already in the group chat. For forum-side group messages, admins can join any of them at will. This PR extends that same ability to chat for parity.

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