Ability to get notified more explicitly about responses in a given thread

[ara4n]

Your use case

What would you like to do?

I want to know when a specific thread gets a response.

Why would you like to do it?

Currently if someone replies to me, i'll get notified when they reply. Now, if someone answers me in a thread, I have no way to whether the notification of the new message in the room is in a thread i care about (i.e. the one where i was talking) or one of a gazillion other random threads in the room.

How would you like to achieve it?

Treat notifications differently if they're on a thread you were participating with. Could treat it as if you were mentioned perhaps?

Have you considered any alternatives?

No response

Additional context

No response

[t3chguy]

This should be doable with current push rules

[janogarcia]

@ara4n I'm not sure I'm following you specific use case/request.

You should get unread notifications (gray dot beside the thread timestamp in the thread list, or red dot if any unread reply contains a mention) on threads that match any of the following conditions.

• A: You are the author of the root message.
• B: You replied in the thread.
• C: You were mentioned in the thread.

Currently only case B is working as expected. A and C are in the works and part of the Exit Beta milestone.

You should only get notifications for those three cases. If I understood it correctly, you are probably requesting a way to differentiate notifications for cases A and B, from notifications for case C.

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There are other ideas we explored for improving the thread notifications visibility and usability but those didn't make the cut for the first release:

Threads notifications in Room list

Thread notifications in Notifications panel

Explicit Follow/Unfollow thread actions

You'd have a way to selectively follow/unfollow individual threads and get notifications for those, no matter if those threads don't match any of the three cases explained previously.

🔴 Early mockup/exploration warning: It looks quite different to the current implementation.

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Let me know if your particular request still wouldn't be addressed by the stuff described above.