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An easy and quick way of managing SMS and MMS messages without ads.
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Better labeling of participants in a group conversation #81

Open SilverPuppy opened 9 months ago

SilverPuppy commented 9 months ago

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Feature description

In a group conversation, presently the only way the program distinguishes between participants is the icon/letter to the left of the message. If the participant is not in contacts, this can result in the numeral 1, the symbol +, or whatever else happens to be perceived as the first character of their ID string, becoming the sole identification of the participants. This is entirely unhelpful. Even a single letter, from the contact entry, is not ideal, due to overlap and ambiguity.

Adding the entire ID string in small print is much more helpful. Additionally, using 2, not 1 character is more helpful.

Why do you want this feature?

The present format for group messaging is very vague, and difficult to see who said what.

Additional information

Screenshot_20240208-062817 Here's an example from QKSMS, which I dropped in favor of this because it doesn't support many MMS features.

SilverPuppy commented 9 months ago

Screenshot_20240208-063716 Same conversation in this app. Impossible to tell who said what.

SilverPuppy commented 9 months ago

The comparison also illustrates another case where color coding correspondents is helpful, but that's a separate feature request I also made. :)

SilverPuppy commented 9 months ago

Thanks @Aga-C for all the work you're doing on the many things I'm posting about this app.