Danger of forwarding to the wrong room

[krille-chan]

Description

When you select a message for forwarding, you get a list of rooms. Tapping on a room, forwards the message to that room immediately.

The problem is, that this appears to be a "live" room list. Rooms move around when they receive activity. A room may switch position from underneath your finger and you may end up forwarding a message to a room you didn't intend to forward to.

Because of this problem, I've recently forwarded a photo to a public room with lots of members, instead of forwarding it to another Direct Message room (my original intention). I've forwarded hundreds of messages using Fluffychat and only had this happen to me once. While slightly embarrassing in my case, this has the potential to cause serious damage in other cases.

I think that it'd be nice to have:

• a static (non-live) list, to prevent the problem I'm describing here
• some confirmation in any case, to prevent the problem where you mistakenly tap on the wrong room (I've never had this happen to me, but there are people with disabilities, etc., which may struggle with this)

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I think a better overall solution would be to implement forwarding to multiple rooms (#211) together with this.

That is, rendering a static list of rooms with checkboxes next to each one, and potentially a search field above them too ( #194), and then a Forward button in the top-right, and a Cancel button in the top-left or something of that sort.

/issue fluffy

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