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Inform user suggestions with more 1:1 interactions than DMs #12017

Open nadonomy opened 4 years ago

nadonomy commented 4 years ago

When inviting a user to a room, the user list suggestions are limited to users I have open DM's with. We should use other heuristics to inform the suggestions too, such as users who have @notified you, and users you have @notified.

nadonomy commented 4 years ago

@turt2live @jryans can you speak to the effort of doing this? It'd be great to include this within https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/12000 so we bring the feature to production more fully featured and don't have loose ends we need to round back to.

But, I'd like to validate that against other priorities in flight over the next couple of weeks.

turt2live commented 4 years ago

It is not an easy thing to track which is why it was excluded. The theory was that the suggestions we currently have are good enough to go live with it.

jryans commented 4 years ago

We should probably review these and any other possible heuristics for implementation cost. Notified users (either direction) would be a medium-size amount of work.

@nadonomy, if you want to block the feature on having these heuristics, please speak up as @turt2live is already setting things in motion for it to go live with the next release.

nadonomy commented 4 years ago

@jryans we ended up discussing this on a call while debugging some other related issues. Our takeaways from syncing were: