Add ability to show/hide muted topics from streams.

[FoggyFinder]

If muted topics are active they might distract user from other topics.

I think it would be useful to have ability to hide them totally.

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[chdinesh1089]

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[timabbott]

@chdinesh1089 this issue isn't ready to work on since it isn't clear what the problem is.

@FoggyFinder can you explain the issue in more detail, maybe with a screenshot? You can do this using this menu:

[chdinesh1089]

I was thinking a checkbox(‘hide muted topics’) needs to be added in user display settings, when enabled muted topics doesn’t appear on clicking a stream in left sidebar.

[FoggyFinder]

@timabbott I meant exactly what @chdinesh1089 wrote.

[chdinesh1089]

@FoggyFinder @timabbott ,I've added a new field in UserProfile model for this, but I'm unable to find out how to modify this field from the frontend. It would be very helpful if you could briefly explain what is to be done and direct me to the relevant javascript files.

[timabbott]

Hmm, OK. @FoggyFinder can you talk more about the problem you're hoping for this to solve? There are some other left sidebar changes in flight that may relieve the problem and I want to make sure we're approaching this the right way.

[FoggyFinder]

can you talk more about the problem you're hoping for this to solve?

For example, there is a topic with active discussions. But content may be inappropriate for someone (like politics).
When topic is muted user still sees count of unread messages and that can be annoying.
Or another case - user may have itch to return to a converstation but since topic is slippery one will "leave" again after a while.
If muted topics are invisible then user won't know that disputes are going right now and one's feelings won't be touched accidentally.

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[timabbott]

@FoggyFinder thanks, that's helpful. We'll need to think about the right model for how this sort of thing would work; would it be a global setting or per-stream? Does it work by automatically marking messages in those topics as read, or by hiding them from view? Etc.

I doubt I'll have the time to think through the options there in 2019 but we could think about this next year. There's some other major changes to the unread system that we'll want to get in before this in any case.

[chdinesh1089]

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[FoggyFinder]

Got it, thank you

[n-cc]

👍 , another good solution could be to prevent new messages in muted topics from bumping that topic to the top of the topic list. It's more of an annoyance thing for me, there are a few very active streams I'm in where I have the most-active topics muted, and I have to click the "more topics" button to find topics I actually care about.