Group sent messages.

[andreyvital]

Hi!

I don't know if there's already a PR for that, but, what about introduce message grouping? like WhatsApp/Hangouts, etc.

Hugs!

[eliseumds]

+1

But.... let's convert it all to ReactJS before that hahahaha

[zhukov]

Do you mean broadcasts?

[andreyvital]

@zhukov Nope.

[Haktrum]

Do you mean visually grouping consecutive sent messages? (BTW, WhatsApp doesn't do that on my phone)

[andreyvital]

@Haktrum

[zhukov]

It's a lot harder to make them selectable then. Hangouts doesn't have this feature.

[zhukov]

I mean, if we make it grouped like you suggest, then we have to solve problems with proper selection. Have you seen mass edit feature?

[ingria]

Look how they did that in vk.com:

Sent messages are grouped, and you also can select any of the grouped messages

[andreyvital]

Exactly @jmcdn.

[eirinnm]

I'm in favour of this, because it'll make the conversation a lot more compact!

[igorsantos07]

Not sure if this feature is behaving properly. I just opened webogram's web version (not chrome app) and sent some messages to two friends, as below:

Correct:

Incorrect:

[zhukov]

There are some restrictions for these groups. E.g. the time difference must be less than 30 secs.

[igorsantos07]

I think I've sent all the messages together, but I'll keep that in mind anyway :)

[macandron]

I'd like for the time difference to be longer. 30 seconds seems a bit unnecessarily short. If you think about the flow of conversation - a conversation topic would not "end" until after a long break - say 5 minutes.

Personally I think the timeout for a "dialogue turn" should be at least 2 minutes. Sometimes it takes a while to write out your entire thought, but it's still about the same topic. As it stands now, conversations become quite verbose and difficult to follow, because almost every conversation looks like Igor Santos's example.

However I don't see why the timeout could not be 5 or 15 minutes instead? I think the main point of the timeout is that separate conversations (or conversations with very long time differences) are easy to tell apart.

"This dialogue turn took 15 minutes, then there was a one-hour break, then the same person continued for another 15 minutes." What difference do breaks of 30 seconds make? It often takes longer than 30 seconds to write one sentence. :D

Usually a conversation is broken up only after a few hours. Not 30 seconds.

Correct me if you think I'm wrong!

[macandron]

One more idea. Think about how long it takes before you start thinking that the other person left the conversation. Are you sure after 30 second of silence? After 2 minutes? After 5 minutes? 10? 15? 30?

For me, this is usually about 10 minutes. If I get no reply, I imagine the person has left to do something else. So their dialogue "turn" would be over and this should show in the conversation history with a new message group.

[igorsantos07]

I cannot add any other thing than saying that's something I've been thinking of and you could express exactly what I still had no words to say :)

I've been noticing how much space is spent between messages, with or without grouping - the screen still looks much more verbose and "empty" than other messengers.