Mute Feature: Hide messages from specific users

[danieljhochman]

It would be great if I can select a specific user and hide all their messages across all chat rooms (or in a specific room).

This is helpful for large chat rooms where a few "loud mouth" users make too much noise.

The messages will still be shown to others in that same room. The user can still DM me unless I select "Block User" which already exists.

[rodrigok]

Specification:

• The list will be per room
• Will be saved in user's subscription as an array of users to mute
• Will be a field in room's setting using the component we already have to select users when creating a new channel
• There will be a button in user's detail view and in message's context menu to mute/unmute the user (methods to be developed)
• Will show an icon (to be defined) in members list to mark muted users
• Will affect the rendering of the messages
• Will hide the user's messages when listed in muted array but will keep the username adding a button to expand/show the messages
• Should not send notifications and emails of messages from muted users
• Should update the array of muted usernames when user change his username (RocketChat._setUsername)
• The minimized message will be designed soon

[theorenck]

@danieljhochman what do you think?

[danieljhochman]

@theorenck - looks good. Just adding what @rodrigok said:

It's per room and per user, the mute button could be added to the message's action menu and you could add the user in input inside the room's preference.

Not sure what "inside the room's preference" means exactly.

[danieljhochman]

@theorenck - this is approved for dev, right?

[rafaelks]

@rodrigok Can you describe in more details this one?

Will hide the user's messages when listed in muted array but will keep the username adding a button to expand/show the messages

[rodrigok]

@rafaelks I did update my specification with more details, @ggazzo will start developing the feature, will define the methods, icons and layout with @karlprieb and our design team, they will keep updating this issue with the interface decisions and DDP APIs developed (we can create a wrapper in REST of course).

Let me know if you need more information

[rafaelks]

@rodrigok Sounds good. Waiting for the APIs and UI mocks. 👍