Threads: Proposal for additional usability and readability Option

githubkoma commented 3 years ago

Dear Team, thanks for awesome rocket.chat !

I love threads, and i would like to suggest an additional usability and readability option:

Background (or "what drives me mad"): Everybody knows the flow of conversations, they have the tendency to get unstructurized and important threads of messages get "buried" below new incoming messages in the parent channel. Also People sometimes dont answer in threads, either they dont want to use threads, or they accidently answer in the parent channel. This makes things more than often confusing to follow..

My Proposal to implement just 3 little Options [1,2,3]:

How it works Now:

Open Channel
Write either "normally" into the channel, or reply to a thread (, or to a discussion)

Proposal:

Open Channel
DONT ALLOW to write normally ! input field is disabled. [1]
Just allow to reply to threads, that are already open. [2]
AND have the ability to create a new thread (like the button to create a Discussion) [3]

This would be awesome to have that settings per Channel. Like in Channel A this is activated, and in Channel B,C,D its just like it was before.

Thanks for considering and wishing you the best, githubkoma

ankar84 commented 3 years ago

I think it pretty good as an option. We very often need a thread-only channels where every message it's a separate topic. But it's a good feature request, not a bug.

sennewood commented 3 years ago

Alternative/additional idea: Always show the "Answer"-Button to start a thread, not when it's already a thread.

debdutdeb commented 3 years ago

Transferring this to our feature requests repository since it is not a bug.

Thanks for sharing it!

Please create issues on https://github.com/RocketChat/feature-requests instead of this repository in the future, if you want to share more ideas.

yashovardhan commented 3 years ago

Hey there,

We highlighted this feature request internally. The design team will have a look at the idea by September and propose a solution accordingly 🙂

In the meantime, if you have any other ideas as well around this, feel free to drop them here as well.

lascapi commented 3 years ago

From my point of view I love the way Zulip do it, like a subtopic. It's related to https://github.com/RocketChat/feature-requests/issues/501

krenuser commented 2 years ago

Probably, also related #546 (Moving messages to a thread)

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