Muting a channel should probably mark the channel as read

(#4085) Feature Under consideration channels desktop messaging mobile ui

2h agoby FullestReviewer

Current problem

Currently, if you mute a channel it retains its unreads. This has the undesirable side effect that if you enable the setting in that community to hide muted channels, the now-muted channel that still has unreads is still visible because of the unreads.

Proposed change

I propose that when you mute a channel (and maybe even category?) it should also mark that channel as read. Muting a channel is a pretty intentional action by the user, and forcing them to take that extra action to mark as read just to be able to hide the channel is a bit unintuitive and feels unnecessary.

Platform

macOS, Windows, Linux, Web, Android, iOS

2 comments

Patrix 1 vote 2h ago

same issue with my android/windows account if i mute channels & turn on "Hide muted channels" and "Hide muted channels by default" (in fluxer://settings/user?tab=advanced_settings&section=advanced-settings-chat) the channel disapear if i click "mark as read" but if there are new messages them apear back in my channel list. turn on/off "Hide muted channels by default" dont fixed this problem.

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Zenny 1 vote 2h ago

This sounds a little unintuitive to me also though. It probably wouldn't matter to anyone in the end but I wouldn't expect messages to be read by marking as muted, I would expect if I mute and unmute, it be in the same state I left it. Of course, the longer it's left this way usually it would be untrue anyway since usually chat platforms have some kind of skip-ahead mechanic when you haven't read a channel in days and that's why I think it ultimately wouldn't be noticed, but just a thought

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