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Room write locking #2157

Open cy8aer opened 10 months ago

cy8aer commented 10 months ago

Your use case

What would you like to do?

It would be nice to have some write locking mechanism for defined rooms. Something like a additional dialog "really write?"

Why would you like to do it?

You may have the situation too that you sometime wrote posts into the wrong room. This is unfavourable for large rooms with spamming rules, for example. For these rooms a write locker would be very useful.

How would you like to achieve it?

Additional parameter like a favorite flag to opt-in locking, dialog when sending a post

Have you considered any alternatives?

We already have message deleting of course but this does not work e.g. on bridged irc channels.

Additional context

I am not sure if this needs a spec addition. Favorites do have a parameter in the protocol? So probably not trivial to implement but really helpful.

cy8aer commented 10 months ago

Probably a different coloring of the message field could be helpful as well.