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smogon / pokemon-showdown-client

The client for Pokémon Showdown
http://pokemonshowdown.com
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PM Refactor #961

Closed panpawn closed 7 years ago

panpawn commented 7 years ago

PMs could be much improved; they haven't changed much since added to PS.

Some of the bigger issues with PMs are log-tracking, report-ability, and not taking up much space.

For starters, if I close PS, my PMs with everyone I was PMing will be gone. If I reported someone, I could easily fake a screen cap to get someone else in trouble. If I am having a long conversation with someone, it can be tedious to do so on such a small window.

One of the things that would change this is if PMs were re-worked into room-like tabs, and maybe even actual rooms like groupchats.

If you made PMs groupchat-type rooms, where they were limited to those two people, the server would keep the conversation up even if a user closed PS. The report feature would be relatively easily done server-side as well.

If a "room" is a PM, then we could create a PM-tabs bar under the room-tabs bar. This would organize PMs, while also keeping them separate from actual rooms.

This is just one idea; there's lots of other ways that PMs can be improved.

Zarel commented 7 years ago

We don't already have an issue for this? I already have a detailed plan for this sketched out somewhere.

panpawn commented 7 years ago

I didn't see an issue for this, unless I missed it?

Zarel commented 7 years ago

https://github.com/Zarel/Pokemon-Showdown/issues/2151

This one.

panpawn commented 7 years ago

Oh, my bad...