Direct Message UX

[ivanminutillo]

Here some thoughts about a Direct Message UI / UX for our beta release...
It contains several differences with how DM works now. Here the main points:

• Single thread: ATM each DM is a separate thread, in this UX we have just 1 thread for each conversation with a selected user/s (we may want to add more flexibility later, adding the possibility to create a new thread if same users want to discuss about a specific topic)
• Flat Thread UI: Users can reply to specific messages, like telegram / matrix but messages will be shown in chronological orders with reference to replied messages (Nested thread for DM can be odd when dealing with a more sync conversation)

[ivanminutillo]

An interesting variation for DM could be moving the composer at the bottom of the DM section, so from one side we could have the left sidebar fully taken by the list of messages, and the main section that behave more like a private chats (with the composer component sticked at the bottom of the screen)