Comment on In light of changes coming to discord: Sharkord
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 week agoYour group arrangement should either be under user account preferences, or local client settings
I disagree. On Discord, channels are sorted and grouped by the server admins. This is good UX design because it gives every user on a server the same experience of the channels, and doesn’t require users to all replicate a bunch of the same work.
What you’re proposing as a solution is that every single user in a Matrix space is responsible for sorting and grouping all of the channels in the space that they’ve joined. That’s a ridiculous proposal because 99% of users aren’t going to go to that ridiculous effort, they’re going to be happy with the default settings. I think your idea is better than Matrix’s current setup, but it’s far worse than Discord from a usability perspective.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 week ago
it’s so ridiculous that it’s what IRC clients and Slack does.
I’m sorry that I forgot to also specify that what you’re talking about could be part of the admin settings for the specific server, which is where that information should be, which again, is not going to be part of the chat protocol.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 week ago
The Matrix protocol sends the channel name and icon from server to user client. It’s one extra field to add the ordinality. Two extra fields to add the category and ordinality. Adding your idea onto My idea so users can also reorder channels after the space moderator orders them would be ideal, but please don’t mistake My suggestion for the idea you came up with.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 week ago
ok, well good luck with the other thread where the other guy is also trying to help you understand that you aren’t quite right on what you’re upset about. I’m not making suggestions, I’m trying to help you understand what you are misinterpreting .