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Show list of groups #645

Closed andyggg closed 5 years ago

andyggg commented 5 years ago

Expected Behavior

Show list of groups in the left column

Current Behavior

Either chats or individual contacts can be listed in the left column

Possible Solution

Add a third icon (depicting e.g. a group of people) above the list in the left column. When clicking this new icon, all available chats are displayed.

Advantage

Quickly find a specific group (in particular when many different group chats are available)

dbrgn commented 5 years ago

Either chats or individual contacts can be listed in the left column

Groups are also listed in the left column.

Quickly find a specific group (in particular when many different group chats are available)

Wouldn't the search be more effective to find a certain group than scrolling through a list of groups?

andyggg commented 5 years ago

Groups are also listed in the left column.

That is true for the list of all chats, where individual chats and group chats are shown in chronological order. As I'm using many different group chats for different topics with different membership compositions (approx. 50 different groups), it is always a pain to find the "right" group chat from that chronological list which is furthermore also "mixed" with all the individual contacts.

Threema App (iOS) already offers to display not only the chronologically ordered list of chats, but also to display either a list of individual contacts or of available group chats, both in alphabetical order. This makes it very handy to find the right one ot of the 50 available group chats. I'd very much appreciate to have this feature also in the webclient.

Wouldn't the search be more effective to find a certain group than scrolling through a list of groups?

In principle yes, but then I'd need to know a portion of the group name as search statement. In my case this might sometimes be difficult due to the nomenclature we use - but I'll give it a try!

lgrahl commented 5 years ago

I would prefer a filter button for conversations (which includes groups).

dbrgn commented 5 years ago

I agree. That would be even more useful than just adding a groups tab, because it also allows you to filter gateway IDs, work contacts, etc.

Closing in favor of #283.