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Ability to ignore individual messages.

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Description

Suggestion

Occasionally somebody posts a message which is really ugly/distracting/stupid and keeps cluttering up your timeline. You don't want to ignore the user outright, given they sometimes post useful stuff, but you could do without seeing this message every time you switch to a given conversation.

It would be nice if we could maintain a list of events somewhere which your client can ignore. Simplest case, I guess it'd be a list in account_data similar to ignoring users.

See also https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3840 and https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/2270 etc.

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Research direction

Start by reading the proposed ability to ignore individual events in this issue, then review the referenced Matrix Spec Proposals pull requests 3840 and 2270. Determine the protocol and account_data changes needed for clients to maintain and apply an event-ignore list; the work is done when the specification defines that behavior clearly.

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Assessment

Domain
api, backend-api-design
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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