List of Required/Desirable features for a Communication System that Maximises Productivity

[nelsonic]

This is our "Work-in-Progress" List of Features for our "Communication System"¹:

• List of People Who are Online/Active: List of People Who are Online/Active #38
• Store previous chat messages on the device/browser to reduce "startup" time: Store Previous Messages in HTML5 LocalStorage to reduce app startup time. #8
  see: https://github.com/dwyl/learn-offline-first
• chat to a person 1:1 in private.
• chat to multiple people in a group (public)
• chat to a group in private (e.g: to discuss sensitive information or decisions)
• notify me of new messages in a chat
• give me fine-grained control over notifications using "flow-based" rules.
• automatically display when I am available/busy based on the task/timer I'm working on: Protect People's "Focus Time" from Distracting Notifications Automatically based current Task/Timer #35
• detect when I am on a "Slow" or "Low Bandwidth" (Mobile) network and restrict images and heartbeat to conserve data: Availability on slow or poor network/mobile connections #34

Please add to this list and where you can.
open a new issue with more detail and link to the feature-issue.

¹The repo is called "Chat" because messaging is the primary functionality.
But Where other Instant Messaging platforms are a source of disruption/distraction ours will hook into https://github.com/dwyl/time and protect people when they are doing focussed work!

[newswim]

Canned responses and/or FAQ during "focus mode"

[newswim]

Better "Sign-Up" flow -- right now you basically have to spin up a Heroku app to get an invite to a new slack team.