Search should not show archived rooms by default or at least seperate them clearly
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Description
When I search in the room list on the left side bar all results shows up, archived rooms and active rooms. Completely mixed up, there is no way to distinguish them by just looking at the results. Which is especially tricks if you have multiple rooms with similar name but only one is the active one and the other ones are old archived conversations.
Most of the time I want to search my active rooms, showing the archived rooms as well adds a lot of noise if you have many archived rooms and make it harder to spot and select the right room in the search result.
Ideas to solve it:
- Only search active chat rooms by default. If you want to search archived chat rooms you first have to go to "Archived conversations" and search than only the archived rooms.
- Clear separation of search results: show at the top only search results for active conversation than a separator/headline "Archived conversation" and than the result from the archived conversations.
- Like the first one but with a button/filter "include archived message" to easily add them to the search result.
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 with the room-list search UI and inspect how active and archived rooms are currently included in results. Compare the proposed filtering and separation options, then verify that the chosen behavior makes active rooms easy to find while still allowing archived rooms to be searched when needed.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100