RocketChat / RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
Feature: Add per-message read count and reader list
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Description
Summary
Add the ability for users to see how many room members have read each message and who they are, providing visibility into message engagement within a channel.
Motivation
In team communication, it's often important to know whether a message has been seen by the intended recipients — especially for announcements, action items, or time-sensitive information. Currently there's no
way to tell if a specific message was read or by whom.
Proposed Behavior
- A read count badge is displayed on each message indicating how many members have read it
- The count updates in real-time as members read the message
- Hovering over the badge shows a tooltip with the list of users who have read the message
- Read status is determined by the room's subscription lastSeen timestamp relative to the message timestamp
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the message rendering entry point and the room subscription data that provides each member's lastSeen timestamp. Define how the count, real-time updates, and reader-list tooltip should use message timestamps; done means each message shows the correct count and reader list as members read it.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- full-stack
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100