Move message into thread

[krenuser]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. A lot of users doesn't really remember to use threads instead of just quoting messages (that is the only way for other messengers). For now when I want to organize and moderate chat (having admin access to server) connect to MongoDB and manually move messages to threads they in fact belong to. To be precise, I add tcount and timestamp field for parent message, add tmid for all messages moved to a thread, etc...

Describe the solution you'd like I would like to see a new menu item in message menu, like "Move [this message] to a thread", which e.g. should display text prompt "Enter message link in thread to which to move a message". It's possible to implement any other comfortable way to select destination message to create/append thread to. Some rules can be implemented:

• messages can be moved just inside a single room, without moving between different rooms/chats/groups/teams;
• moving user's message to a thread should subscribe this user to a thread his message has been moved to;
• restrict moving a message which already has a thread;
• restrict moving a message under another which was posted later that moved one.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Another option is to implement a new slash command for moving messages to a thread. E.g. typing /movehere https://chat.company.org/group/name?msg=12345667890 somewhere in a thread should move a message with ID 12345667890 from current chat to a thread this command typed in.
• Other option is to implement two items in message menu called "Move this message to a thread" and "Put selected message here" respectively. First one will "Cut" (Ctrl+X) a message and second one will "Paste" (Ctrl+V) a message to a thread and then clear buffer.

Additional context None.

[ankar84]

Interesting! Nice to have such ability!

[btittelbach]

We also would like to have this feature.

Often, the person who starts a topic or replies first does not yet know if the conversation will blow up and should have been a thread. Only later it becomes obvious that the conversion should have it's own thread and should continue in it's own thread.

Moving message to it's own thread would be a powerful moderator feature that makes the flow of conversation clearer.