For me it is OK to have this “folders” (or “tags”) feature as per-device setting.
I’m new to DC, and I’ve just added my third contact, and I already utterly want this feature to be here!
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I agree with the arguments.
Similar to this one: Klick!
I hope for such a feature.
I strongly agree that having folders available would be an excellent feature - not only for ease of use and the ability to declutter the interface, but also as a way to ease migration from other chat options (specifically, Discord). As I’m getting friends together and working towards migrating a couple different servers to some alternative, Delta looks like a very strong contender, except for the need to separate out each “server” / group of chats into a different profile.
It’s a reasonable solution, up until you intertwine it with other reasons to use multiple profiles, for instance plurality. If the systems I’m friends with need to create an account per person per “server”, that adds up quick, and is an unnecessarily bloated workaround for a problem better solved with user choice.
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I would also vote for having Folders. A month after I started to use Delta Chat I already have 20 chats or so. I don’t want to have an account for each group of chats and it would even be impossible to do so
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@FrankLanger do you realize you are spamming the thread sending the same thing over and over, and to something that is only loosely related, that is about grouping contacts, not grouping chats, that is what folders do
I think this feature makes sense but not in the sense of email folders, that is a completely different thing that only works for grouping email, not chats (which email protocols have no awareness of), and we don’t want to leak metadata about our chat “folders”/grouping to the server anyways
but as @r10s said, just for chat grouping probably you can get away just with multi-profiles in a good chunk of the use cases
but what I think would bring more advantage is if that “folders” are shared among people, then they become basically what in whatsapp is a community and “spaces” in matrix, this is exactly how Telegram implemented spaces/communities
it could be just a group that contain other groups inside (sub-groups), all the people that join the parent group are “members of the community” and can see all the sub-groups inside, they can create other sub-groups inside that then get shared with all members of the space because that messages of “member added/removed” and “group created” etc. of the sub-groups get sent in the parent group, so everyone inside is aware of the state of the sub-groups and can join at any time, when they are not member of a sub-group, they don’t receive normal messages of the sub-group only the messages about the sub-group state (members, avatar, description, name)
That wasn’t my intention, I’m sorry.
Thanks for deleting it.