Nio should allow for better control of the chats list.

[justMaku]

Currently the chat list within Nio is a flat table view which users need to scroll through to navigate to a chat they want to enter, and doesn't implement the "favorites" or "low priority" section that is present in Element.

Users are also not able to quickly see just 1-on-1 chats or group chats, another feature that is present in Element.

[kiliankoe]

I definitely want to have some kind of UI to either highlight or separate rooms from DMs. Ideally of course Nio will also support favorites and low priority marked rooms as such.

Any idea how to tackle the former? I'm not a big fan of iOS Element's overview screen. One thing I've seen proposed in other Matrix clients is a segmented control at the top to switch between DM's and larger rooms, but that also feels a bit weird. Maybe a page-based design?

[pixlwave]

Side note: It might also be worth considering the upcoming Spaces feature in any update to the presentation of the rooms list.

[kiliankoe]

Good point, planning for that sounds very sensible!

Thinking about similar concepts from other platforms, we could try something akin to what Slack does for multiple workspaces as a separate sidebar? Which is also the direction Element is heading afaict (basically the representation the communities used before)?