Extend calls to multiple people?

[privong]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I recently got off a call with multiple people, but I could only add a call with one person. It would be nice to support group calls.

Describe the solution you'd like
I can see at least two possible solutions:

• Extend "calls" to be able to include more than one person. This makes it then seem quite similar to Activities, so the other thought I had was:
• Make calls a sub-category of activities. This might also go along with Turn "phone calls" into generic "chats" #1062. Perhaps by adding user-definable categories.

[pqhf5kd]

I also had this problem yesterday, a group of family members called video called me.

Also group chats for Coversations.

[tbirrell]

Realistically, Calls, Conversations, and Events, should all be subtypes of Activities. Though this would take a ton of backend work to pull off.

[pqhf5kd]

Realistically, Calls, Conversations, and Events, should all be subtypes of Activities. Though this would take a ton of backend work to pull off.

This would solve two of my problems. In fact there's no reason I can't do that myself with custom activities but it Monica was to move to this system in the future, my custom activities probably wouldn’t match.

[tbirrell]

Unfortunately true. Though if you host your own, you could probably migrate it by hand (or script) with a couple of SQL queries.

However, if @djaiss wanted to make this change (for a 3.0 version or something), I suspect it wouldn't be terribly difficult to include the ability to switch types. It would take some backend magic since polymorphics would certainly be involved, but relatively simple in the grand scheme of things.

[privong]

Has there been any further thought to adding multiple participants to calls/conversations? Or to generalizing these into Activity sub-types as @tbirrell suggested?