element-hq / element-hq/element-android

Shorten reply messages in the notification bar

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A-Notifications T-Enhancement X-Needs-Product Z-GetYourUpdates
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Description

### Your use case

#### What would you like to do?
See the actual incoming message and not there message replied to.

#### Why would you like to do it?
I want to be able to read the new message quickly from the notification bar because right now if the message replied to is very long it takes up all the space.
#### How would you like to achieve it?
Only show a specific amount of characters from the replied to message

### Have you considered any alternatives?

Don't show at all that the message is a message reply to another message.

### Additional context

I think something that's making this worse is the fact that the mxid is showing and not the display name of the server of the message which is replied to.

If encryption is an obstacle here (wouldn't know why it should be) then it could be done for non encrypted rooms as a start?

Here's a video explaining my use case:
https://aarenet-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/p/chagai_friedlander/EQXvZCbXGfJImkf0KH0LvcIBYmAPIvL0xeUqKbMG8_zMEA?e=ZKNsn6

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