🧠 Talk brainstorm ideas

Contributor week 2025

• ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️ https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/issues/3390
• ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️ https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/issues/3954
• ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️ Starred / favorite messages and threads
• ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️ Better/easy call reactions (reduce clicks, increase icon size, make it quick)
• ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️ Prompt/ask AI assistant to search for disussion (by description of it)
• ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️ https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/issues/16977
• ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️ https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/issues/15877
• ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️ https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/issues/15026
• ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️ Better performance and UI for files upload (web + mobile progress, compressed files)
• ☑️☑️☑️☑️ Show links in Shared items
• ☑️☑️☑️☑️ Preview open conversations before joining (last messages)
• ☑️☑️☑️☑️ People in the lobby - can’t chat, should be easily invited / notified
• ☑️☑️☑️ Post highlighted messages as ‘from moderators’ (anonymously)
• ☑️☑️☑️ Video - autotuning (adjust camera position, background, e.t.c.)
• ☑️☑️☑️ Bridge with Mastodon, Whatsapp - easy setup
• ☑️☑️ Group / organise/ tag messages in ‘Note to self’
• ☑️☑️ GIF support in chats
• ☑️☑️ Correct order of posting messages (text is fast, files are slow) 🐛
• ☑️☑️ Channels as conversations
• ☑️ New messages don’t always appear 🐛
• ☑️ Redesign Talk Dashboard (again) 🐛
• ☑️ Threads - read marker 🐛
• ☑️ Counter, How many people read the message
• ☑️ Post effects for virtual background (like Mac)
• ☑️ Start a call directly from calendar

Company week 2025

• ☑️☑️☑️☑️ Grouping conversations (folders, tags, …)
• ☑️☑️☑️ https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/issues/7660
• ☑️☑️☑️ Announcements, sticky/pinned messages
• ☑️☑️☑️ Create task out of message in Desktop client
• ☑️☑️☑️ SIP dialout using own number
• ☑️☑️☑️ Control message flood in big conversations (Twitch slow-mode, enforce drafts, don't allow sequential messages)
• ☑️☑️ SIP dialin (mailbox, redirect, …)
• ☑️ Android: QR code login
• ☑️ Protected/Confidential conversations (no last message, no message content in notifications, …)
• ☑️ Multi-speaker view (2 speakers e.g. in 1-1 with screenshare, or in big calls with 2 regular presenters)
• ☑️ Add timer for presenters/moderators
• ☑️ Access other conversations while in a call
• ☑️ Faster UX when switching conversation (Searching for it (1+k problem) and Time from click until chat is finished)
• ☑️ Add tags to messages
• ☑️ Enhanced hot-keys / full keyboard navigation
• ☑️ Automatically summarize "topics" and replace the related message with the summary
• Overview of reminders
• Disable join/leave sounds in big conversations
• Notification when some guest joins a public conversation (e.g. customer chat when you wait for the other side to chat)
• Grant permissions with Request > Grant instead of via Chat
• As a moderator assist people to unmute
• Suggest deletion of old/unused conversations
• Recording management (easier overview and sharing)
• Android: Share file directly to a conversation (instead of App > Conversation list > Share)
• Mobile: Show latest images directly when sharing something to a conversation
• Better GIF support
• Preannounce scheduled calls
• Easier federation (when joining public link, or via addressbook)

Pain point

• As admin request some debug information without user interaction on browser console
• Message flood
  • Limit messages outside of a call
  • Jump to latest when too many unread
  • Message threads and option to mute a thread but not the rest
  • Increase input field to emphasize longer single messages over single line messages

Contributor week 2024

• ☑️☑️☑️☑️ Instant/disposable meetings: Start a meeting and after finishing it, it automatically gets removed https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/issues/5972 / https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/issues/14929
• ☑️☑️☑️ Show if a message was sent silently: From a user perspective it is not clear if a message was sent silently or if a push notification was missed https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/issues/12008
• ☑️☑️☑️ Don't create a 1:1 conversation without sending a message first: As soon as you select a 1:1 conversation, a conversation is directly created. It should only be created after sending a first message
• ☑️☑️☑️ Extend out-of-office to mobile device and also show it in advance (show upcoming vacation on friday already)
• ☑️☑️☑️ Archive conversations, without leaving them: The conversation should not be visible in the conversation list, but you should still be part of the conversation and should receive notification if you're mentioned https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/pull/13357
• ☑️☑️ Title of the conversation in the URL: Currently the URL is just random, it would be nice to have pretty links, including the name of the conversation https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/issues/2421
• ☑️☑️ Grouping of conversations: Organize conversations in "folders", e.g. put every 1:1 in one "folder" https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/issues/2448
• ☑️ Schedule event from talk conversation: Able to show a calendar to schedule a follow-up event with a subset of the participants https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/issues/6292
• ☑️ Status of meeting should be visible for upcoming events in Talk: Upcoming conversations should be moved to the top of the conversation list
• ☑️ Show participant count and date of last message for open conversations: Show a "preview" of the room before you actually show the room
• ☑️ Global drafts: Start drafting a message on Device A and it should be available on Device B to continue https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/issues/3055
• ☑️ Shared media view: Allow to filter by file type and show date of sharing to the conversation
• ☑️ Bypass DND: Some conversations should be marked as "bypass DND" so notifications are still reached https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/pull/14738
• ☑️ "Translate" time to local/different timezones
• Threads: Chain of replies get condensed to a single stream of messages https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/issues/1469
• Better call notifications: Have multi select which people should receive a call notification
• #13934
• Show call summaries in shared media view to easily jump to them
• Show "non-used" conversation to allow easy deletion of those (goes along with instant/disable meetings)
• Call agenda: Hand out a call agenda upfront to the participants

This issue is a brainstorm list rather than a scoped task, and it names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by selecting one unchecked idea and reviewing its linked issue when available; the work is done only after that idea has defined scope and acceptance criteria.