Show Date when scrolling

[FarisZR]

Your use case

What would you like to do?

It would be great if element X shows the date of the messages while scrolling.

Why would you like to do it?

currently it's almost impossible to know when messages were sent in large groups.

How would you like to achieve it?

In similar style to other apps like telegram.

Schildi chat next already does this, it shouldn't be too difficult to just merge the patch back to element X.
https://github.com/SchildiChat/schildichat-android-next

Have you considered any alternatives?

No response

Additional context

No response

Are you willing to provide a PR?

No

[rom4nik]

I'm not sure how SchildiChat does this, but here's an example from Signal (notice the changing date in bubble hovering below top bar). At the same time, Signal does have the feature proposed in #2116. I don't have a long unread chat right now, but I think those features might even be used in Signal together in one situation - chat opens on unread messages from a few days ago, and the bubble shows the date of first message.

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[FarisZR]

It's similar to signal. But I don't get how showing the date is related to the message being unread or not, I just use it to know when something was sent, even if I have read it before. I currently can't know when a message was sent till I scroll to the first message on that day, which isn't great.

[spaetz]

Sorry, my comment seems to have ended up in the wrong ticket, so I deleted it. Sorry for the confusion this must have caused.

[claell]

This was also important to me on Element Web, so I created element-hq/element-web#26925.