Feature: List of past threads

[nileshtrivedi]

A very common use case is ability to visit and resume past conversations. See https://chat.openai.com for example.

It might be a good idea to provide a container component with the list of past threads (with actions like share, rename, archive, delete) as well as a button to start a new thread. This are stateful features, but they can possibly be handled much like past messages (i.e. initialMessages).

This will make it much simpler for backend frameworks to generate a really good Assistant experience without having to build much frontend.

[buzhou9]

Like this ？ When you click this button, it will clear the current conversation record and start a new conversation again.

[nileshtrivedi]

That's one part of it. I meant the list of past threads which can be resumed. For example, we are currently considering using Chainlit instead of Deepchat with custom backend, because it has this:

[OvidijusParsiunas]

Hi @nileshtrivedi.

My apologies for a very late response, I'm currently trying to balance my work, studies and open source endeavours which has been a little challenging.

External outer components/add-ons for Deep Chat is something that I already have on my to-do list and am very eager to work on in the future. The problem at the moment is that I have a set of more pressing issues/enhancements to get through before I can start working on external components.

Having said that, this is an excellent opportunity for members of the community to try their hand at enhancing Deep Chat's capabilities and construct their own chat experience for others to use. I would be more than happy to give those projects a shout out (as long as they are Open Source ofcourse).

This would also fall into the category of creating a minimize/maximise container mentioned in the following issues:

• Is there a provision to add Minimize and Maximize the chat window #69
• Intercom / Crisp style popup from button embed #187

I'll set this issue as a help wanted so that other Open Source developers can see it.

[bruffridge]

We built our own logic and UI to handle multiple chat threads in bidara-deep-chat. Our frontend is built using Svelte.

[nileshtrivedi]

Thanks @bruffridge ! This should be quite helpful! 👏