Collapse/expand conversations (hide/show replies)
Users are asking for a few different things:
- Collapse/expend all button -- single click to collapse or expand all threads
- Admin setting for collapse/expand
- Button to re-collapse a thread once its been expanded (right now you have to navigate to another channel in order for the thread to re-collapse)
Please add more granular requests in the thread below.
Carlos Carvallo
shared this idea
Item 1 and 2 are Under Review.
Item 3 has been Completed.
I’ll keep you posted as I hear more on this request.
-Warren
101 comments
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- Al
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Conversations should be able to be expanded by default. This is how it is in slack, and it is much easier. I want to be able to read what people are saying - not just the first line or two.
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thobie
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Long review process? How to expand all posts/conversations visible automatically?
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Anonymous
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Please add the ability to clear the last Chat in the background. I do not want an old and potentially sensitive/confidential chat just sitting in the background just because it was the last chat I had.
Allow chats to be closed / cleared from the screen when you are done!Add a toggle command to Reopen the previous chat - or even the whole continuous Chat thread since the beginning of time, fine... BUT PLEASE allow the Chat contents to be toggled off the screen and persisted as OFF until I get a new Chat or I choose to display it, again!
Pin the Contacts list open like Skype as a quick reference to the status of your favorites and group members. This is the landing page I want always open... and with NO stale Chat thread in the background.
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RajQSL
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It seems that last update from the team is on September 09, 2018? Is it possible that Dev team is not looking at this post?
Would really appreciate "expand all" button? I have Slack and Rocket Chat for long time and never felt the need for collapse all. Maybe it is feature for few people, but "expand all" seems more useful.
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Anonymous
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+1
Took me a long time
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Jonathan
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Agreed - why collapse automatically? i want to read the whole thread!! Help me save the world (in my mind... but thanks anyway)
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Marc
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+1, it's really annoying having to expand more than every 2nd message I get.
@Warren: How's review status?
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Anonymous
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Please stop collapsing entries in the conversation. Please implement 1 and 2 as soon as possible!
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Jonn
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I second that:
Can't work with Teams until this is implemented... I click "See More" "See More" "See More" "See More" all day long, it drives me nuts. -
Anonymous
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Can't work with Teams until this is implemented... I click "See More" "See More" "See More" "See More" all day long, it drives me nuts.
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Anonymous
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Hi, would def like to see the user have full capacity to see the entire message first up, then have the ability to collapse, remove, delete, save the message. More user friendly
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Elmar Höfinghoff
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I would like to see all replies, all thread answeres, posts and comments everywhere in the complete tool.
If I like to hide something of this, I would like to have an option in the settings to turn this on and off.
Here too: Our team members are missing important things because they do not click on "see more"...! -
Timmothy Frink
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So, we've got "collapse all", but still no "expand all". What is there to review? It is a waste of time to force user to click 3,4,5, + times to see a full conversation thread, particularly as it collapses all whenever you change focus.
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Frank
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Any update on this, been a year since the last Admin post.
Thanks,
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Scott
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Hiding messages by default is bad user experience. I've missed so many important messages.
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Charlie
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Seriously. This makes channels unusable. Auto collapsing threads and threaded messages by default completely ruins the chat room experience. Please make this a channel setting or a user preference.
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Dan Allen
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I beg of you to please stop collapsing conversations. This is a huge time waster. Please, stop it. It's almost impossible to find conversations that you've hidden. The whole point of this tool is to have the entire conversation available for browsing and you've gone and hidden it in a way that is totally unobvious and requires incessant clicks to find what you are looking for. Please, in the name sanity, stop the collapsing.
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adupont
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I find the collapse feature maddening. I was reading messages, got a new message, and it still took me a minute to realize the messages I just expanded were now collapsed again. It is very annoying to have to keep expanding them manually, and it is an excellent point in comments below that people are missing messages because they are collapsed. The default behavior certainly shouldn't be that people miss messages. Not only should we control the behavior of auto collapse, the chat should also be smart enough to display unread messages no matter which option is chosen for auto collapse.
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Cameron Tucker
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+1 to this for #1 and #2 (especially #2), it's REALLY difficult to run a team on this app if my team members on my channels constantly have to click "read more". Unfortunately they're missing many things they NEED to know. Slack does this, why can't Teams?
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TH
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"Expand All" should be the default. I'm overlooking important information because it is hidden behind "see more" or, even worse, "Bob and 5 others replied" type links.