Subject of emails

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I inadvertently duplicated Raiden’s work, with similar if not identical results:

Use subject line to provide functionality

I’ve thought this over, and I think a better UI would be a show/hide toggleable “Subject:” text field just above the chat text entry field (toggle it in the “+” menu). If you manually alter the contents of this “Subject:” field, the field background changes color, and your next message will go out with that subject. Otherwise it contains the subject of the most recently-received message. A drop-down (well, drop-up) menu gives the most recent subjects in the chat, in chronological order of last…

To accommodate Raiden’s nice background waterfall image, maybe just the left or right margin could change colour according to the subject.

I think searching by subject, thread views, etc. could be something different clients could choose to do differently. And it could certainly be done later, after basic subject functionality exists, if people want it.