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Shared/meta documentation and project artefacts for Element clients
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Non content information crowds out content in timeline #2475

Open kongo09 opened 2 months ago

kongo09 commented 2 months ago

Steps to reproduce

  1. Visit a room from a group with infrequent chats
  2. Observe the timeline

Outcome

What did you expect?

See the recent content in the viewport

What happened instead?

The viewport is filled with non content system messages that grab a lot of screen real estate and crowd out the real chats.

For example:

Screenshot_20240712-114352

Your phone model

Pixel 5

Operating system version

Android 14

Application version and app store

0.4.16-nightly

Homeserver

No response

Will you send logs?

No

Are you willing to provide a PR?

No

frebib commented 2 months ago

Element Web deals with this by collapsing these entries into a single summarised line. I always quite liked that