Threaded Messaging

[ajvsol]

Extending the Quote functionality to allow for threaded messaging.

This could be a simple 'Quote 2.0'-style like WhatsApp where the quoted text is hyperlinked and when clicked makes you scroll up to their message:

Or the more sophisticated Threaded Messages panel like Mattermost:

Perhaps allowing for both could be done by having the Threaded Messages panel open when you left-click on the 'reply' part of the Quote 2.0 message:

Or by having 'Message Thread' popup as an option in the context menu to allow opening the Threaded Messages panel:

[ara4n]

The plan is to do REALLY good threading in Riot. There's a lot of work on this currently on the Matrix spec, backend, and we're starting work on the frontend next week. matrix-org/matrix-spec#411 is the design bug for this (although there's nothing there yet). I'll keep this one around too. Thanks for the overview of what other folks are up to here!

[ajvsol]

Looks like Slack have implemented this now as well.

Cool UI:

And an overview page:

[clopez]

flowdock also implements threaded conversations in a nice and very usable way

https://www.flowdock.com/help/chat

Twist from creators of Todoist uses the very interesting concept of threaded channels:

In these channels every message must be in a thread, and it makes conversations much more organised than a continuous stream of messages.

It's the modern version of forum, except you get the benefits of organisation and don't miss out on integrations, mentions, presence, bots etc.

[richvdh]

this is not p1.