different notification settings for group chats

[sagischwarz]

It would be very nice to be able to change the notification settings for goups independently from other (personal) chats, as group chats might have a lower priority for the user.

[eChoooo]

This would be a very nice feature ... atm this is the only reason why our group cannot use it for our group communications (due to the massive amount of spam in our groups ;) )

+1

[moxie0]

@sagischwarz Can you throw out some examples of what you'd like to see? What if we just duplicated the existing notification setting section for group notifications?

[sagischwarz]

@moxie0 Yes, this is exaclty what I was thinking about. Other chat apps also do this and it would be easy to understand with the right wording (Notifications/Group Notifications).

[Henry31]

It would be Nice if you can Change the Notification for every Chat. So i can set for a important group a loud Sound, and for some spamming contacts a quiet notification sound.

[sagischwarz]

@Henry31 Yes, that might be even better. New chats could start with the standard setting and in the menu of the current chat (the three dots in the upper right corner), one could add "Notifications", which on selection would open a menu overlay with the same settings as in the global options, but for this chat only. This option could also be made available not only for group, but also for one on one chats.

[KBanause]

Nice request. But I would like to see it if it would be possible to extend it to SMS messages as well. So that I can tell a TextSecure message apart from a SMS

[jocelynthode]

@moxie0 Yes, I'd like to see this implemented, it's a must imho.

[r-arias]

Yes, this would be very useful.
I have friends leaving group conversations because they feel like they are being spammed. ;)
Is anyone already working on this?

[richyr45]

+1
desperately missing this and still going mad of group chats while being busy ;-) (aka spam ^^)

[Wopfi]

+1
Opened a similar Request #1674 because I overlooked this one. I really miss the option to select different Notification Tones for Group Chat and Single Messages.
It would be much easier to distinguish between a Message send especially to me and some Friends chatting with each other in one of my Groups.

[jocelynthode]

This feature is still missing and I think we badly need it :(.

[tinloaf]

There is a kind of related pull request somewhere..

[agrajaghh]

I didn't find the PR, but this discussion on the mailing list is related as well:
Proposal: Per-Recipient Notification Settings
https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/whispersystems/2014-07/msg00049.html

[tinloaf]

#1815 ... Its not really group notification settings, but it would do the trick.

[agrajaghh]

The question is if we should have different notification settings for groups in general or for every single thread (including normal conversations)

To quote moxie:

Engraved in 16 story letters on the side of the TextSecure World HQ building is our core mantra: "The answer is never more options."

I think general group notification settings would be less "more options". Whatsapp is doing the same btw, they have general notification settings for groups but allow muting single groups.

[tinloaf]

Let's discuss this on the mailinglist. I feel like we did this already, but its better suited than this bugtracker.

[KBanause]

I hope this feature will be added (with the extension to use a different notification sound for SMS).