Personal ('pet name') room name for chats #726
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It would be helpful for users to be able to set a custom name for rooms in general, with the custom name only being shown to the user who set it. For example, it would be useful if someone is subscribed to both #debian on Freenode and #debian on OFTC to set custom names so that they're distinguishable. |
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Good point, I didn't think of it, yes actually channel names should personalizable in general. |
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This is basically https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/690. Agreed it'd be nice to have - it's very annoying when someone renames a 1:1 to be called something unhelpful like "Matthew" |
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Would also be good to be able to set a personal avatar for the room without affecting other users. |
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Pet avatars are tracked here ftr: https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/363 |
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For don't create new entities in storage, can we store 'pet name' for rooms in
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Why not just store it in room account data then you don't need the room id inside the event. |
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Does room account data have private storage for each user, that not visible to other room members? |
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Yup, that's why it's room account data. |
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This would be fantastic to have. I'm one of those people who have trouble remembering usernames of my contacts. I also have groups with certain users that I would love to just label with something related to these users that doesn't make sense for them (e.g. "parents"). |
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First of all, sorry for not adding real content to the discussion. My point: I don't understand why this issue has p2 assigned. I've literally seen roughly 10 more or less duplicate issues with this same request from users, who also want this feature - going back to 2017. And then there are issues with p1 assigned where I really don't get how it's supposed to be more important than this one here ... example: Why doesn't 'da' autocomplete Dave in #riot-dev? Sure, priorities are somehow a matter of personal perspective ... but for me, the same issue popping up again and again like this one clearly indicates it's quite important. And I bet that this is one of the missing features that keep potential users (like me) from using riot/vector.im. I don't want to have to remember silly pseudonyms - which is what many private users chose when making an account. Sure, users from french administration probably use their actual names anyway. But if riot/vector.im becomes more widespreach they won't be a big percentage of all users anymore. |
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Seems this is planned to implement in element-hq/roadmap#10 roadmap item? |
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I have created the matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#3015 for this feature, hope this will be implemented in some clients. |
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found that issue because i was looking for the same missing feature. happy to see if we could rename persons locally wihtout overriding global room names, to have a better overview of a whole community and a lot of group members and friends. |
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It would be super cool if this could integrate with contacts on the android version of element. |
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Hopefully allowing us to give nicknames or pet names to friends on the app to better distinguish them from other friends will arrive soon. |
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Moving this issue to discussions in Element meta as we need to make a cross platform decision on how to proceed 👍 |
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6 years later... any update on this? |
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Locally changing names is rather crucial before Element will have widespread adoption. You should be able to set your own default name for a room, your default name globally, and other people should be able to give you their own local custom name for the room. |
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Hi hopefully keeping this thread alive as I'd really love having this feature |
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Currently, if the channel with another person is not named, then their nickname is shown.
Problem:
Second group of problems: A MUC rarely has a good name that is helpful to everyone. See @uhoreg comment. Eg. you have an "Organization" channel of some open source project, which is just very unhelpful if you are in multiple projects. So it would in general be helpful for all chats to have a custom/personal room name.
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