Open timothyclemansinsea opened 7 years ago
I'm marking this as high. I'm also assigning you, because this is a really good idea, worth doing, and I think all information needed to implement this is already in the browser, so this might be pretty easy. Look at what other chat programs do to indicate "read receipt" information for inspiration...
I would be in favour of closing it without implementation:
I've never seen this issue before. However, I think we have to implement this in order to be able to show users what they have and haven't seen, which is a feature request people do make. E.g., if I want to know which messages i've missed in existing threads, we have to store somewhere whether I've read those threads. It's exactly the same data as "add read receipt to chat".
When I'm requesting help I need to know if my helper has read my message. I'm marking this as M-medium because I imagine that instructors/TAs want to know if a student has read their message.