This will take place ~24 hours from now. Feel free to post and upvote questions beforehand in this post, as it will turn into the AMA tomorrow.
This is a chance for any users, admins, or developers to ask anything they’d like to myself, @nutomic@lemmy.ml , @SleeplessOne1917@lemmy.ml , or @phiresky@lemmy.ml about Lemmy, its future, and wider issues about the social media landscape today.
Will private messages ever be displayed in a threaded or grouped manner?
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but it is current web interface is just a reverse chronological list of all sent and received messages. This can be confusing to follow if one is messaging multiple users over an extended period of time. I think the ability to group messages by user would be useful.
Maybe, if someone implements it. Basically the same answer as all other low-priority feature requests.
There can definitely be improvements, but I agree that they’re low priority. I’m hesitant to put too much work into Lemmy’s private messages or its interface, as they’re inherently insecure and not E2EE (we even have warnings in the lemmy-ui interface about this).
Its best to rely on messaging apps like matrix and xmpp that were made for that job, which you can either add to your profile. We also added a specific matrix_id field to your user settings, which enables a “Send secure message” button.
I’m personally annoyed with how the default UI shows messages and mostly work on the frontend, so changing that is definitely on my agenda.
This is already possible in many Lemmy apps. I built the Quiblr web app and messages are more similar to a messaging app. Many Lemmy apps probably do similar as it’s just a front-end change.
Cool! I haven’t tried out web apps, but many mobile apps have this feature as well. Would be nice to see this feature merged into the native web interface.