Threads: Add a configuration options to move threads with new messages down in the timeline. #2510
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A-Threads
A-Timeline
O-Occasional
Affects or can be seen by some users regularly or most users rarely
O-Uncommon
Most users are unlikely to come across this or unexpected workflow
T-Enhancement
T-Feature
Request to add a new feature which does not exist right now
Your use case
What would you like to do?
I want to directly see a thread that got a new message.
Why would you like to do it?
I am in a group that uses threads heavily to keep the chat history "clear" and to make it easy for others to skip of the thread is not of relevance to them.
The topics are too fluid to create individual rooms for them, but once a topic comes up it can last for some weeks, while other topics also come up from day to day.
When a new message arrives in an older thread it requires a more tedious search to actually find the message (and only then I can decide if the message actually is in a thread of relevance or not):
It is both easily to get lost (to not find the message at all) and to spend a major amount of time to search for the new message than to actually read it.
(The combination with the outstanding issue of stuck new message markers in threads makes the problem even worse, since one does not know if a marker in the thread overview means "a new message is in that thread" or "this is just a stuck notification that does not get removed".)
How would you like to achieve it?
I suggest:
Having a configuration option in the client which allows to enable that the complete thread which received a new message is moved down in the timeline. User-configurable if this should occur or not.
Have you considered any alternatives?
Using Slack (which does allow that). Ruled out due to proprietary servers and impossibility to self host.
Additional context
No response
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