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Option to make Leave Room act as Leave Room and Forget #18710

Open SethFalco opened 3 years ago

SethFalco commented 3 years ago

Your use case

What would you like to do?

I would like to have rooms forgotten automatically when I leave them.

Why would you like to do it?

I find the history/forget thing to just be clutter in the UI. (subjective)

At least with my current usage, I forget a room 100% of the time after leaving it. Doing this manually is a bit annoying, though. ^-^'

How would you like to achieve it?

I think there should be a setting that:

Have you considered any alternatives?

Another button could be added to the UI such as "Leave Room and Forget" under the existing "Leave Room", however I don't think this is a good solution.

Additional context

No response

t3chguy commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/14038 is an alternative solution to this, by getting rid of the Historical room section in the room list