Feature Request: Disable status broadcast for specific user

[christianlupus]

Hello. I am a representative of a club and thus have a bunch of people in my contact list that I might need but that I do not know very much. Some of them are using their whatsapp status broadcast to promote their business (multi-level marketing!). I would like to exclude these broadcasts from my room as I am not interested in the products.

So, the formal request:
I would like -- as a user of the bridge -- to have a list of WA users whose status broadcasts are either ignored or put in a separate silent room. The list must be configurable (preferable from the config room) and most probably will be per user of the bridge.

[Isodome]

+1
Ideally the individual mute status would be synced with WhatsApp's built in mute status. That way the bridge didn't have to maintain any more state.

[Severin-S]

Is banning the users you want to mute from the Status Broadcast room a valid workaround?

[christianlupus]

I blocked the user on matrix side, I do not know if this is a permanent workaround. Also it will be hard to check as I ideally no longer get any notifications 😄. I would consider it a workaround but would prefer the sync of the status.

[mcepl]

Couldn't we get an user-level option to switch off “WhatsApp Status Broadcast” altogether? #166 is just server-side, so for me (an user of one.element.io) it is useless.

[tulir]

You can already mute the room, this issue is about muting statuses from individual users (which is a feature whatsapp has, but it's not synced to web clients)