Expected behavior
When creating a group or in the overview, one can add a description of the group.
Actual behavior
There are no group descriptions.
Explanation
A description could be useful to explain the purpose of a group or certain rules.
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Would be most useful for mailinglists.
Though I wonder if this use case could also be reached by implementing pinned messages.
That would also be a possibility. Unfortunately, this would require more screen space.
I think pinned messages should only be visible locally. It would bother me if others could pin messages on my device. But if one really want that, one could do it more discreetly using the Webxdc app Corkboard. In this context, quick access to Webxdc apps would make sense.
Telegram has pinned messages for all people in groups, discord has this too, It’s useful to say these messages are important and you could also have auto forwarding when adding people to the user.
That’s right. But I think the group description should contain general information about the group.
Pinning makes more sense for messages that become particularly important during the chat.
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I do agree, and this is mostly how it is used on Telegram, WhatsApp and Discord too
For instance, one may have a discord channel for a particular topic and one can expand on the purpose of the channel in the description, whilst pinned messages would often contain useful resources for later–this is especially useful as anyone’s messages can be pinned, like a useful contribution by a member
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