Benjamin Pierce

- [ ] make it easier to keep several chats going at the same time - [ ] make it easier/more obvious to add people to chat groups - [x]...

We really need a way to have a sense of who is around — both “what is the whole list of people registered for the conference?” (so that I can...

* [ ] at the moment, it is not possible to click on a link in the Followed Chats window because this takes you to the chat instead. I'd rather...

* [ ] To save space in the sidebar, when a persistent room is created, there should be an option to control visibility: * always * only when occupied *...

Add a confirmation when joining a zoom session as host

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Instead of directly joining Zoom, the "join as host" button should pop up a confirmation dialog warning people to use it carefully, with Proceed and Cancel buttons

Private conversations created from text chat should be Ephemeral

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If you click on the camera-+ icon in a chat to spin off a new private room for a conversation, the room should be created in Ephemeral mode, not Persistent....

Clarify semantics of "private" rooms with a tooltip

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Right now. it is not clear to people what it means when a room is created (or marked) private. Also, the little "locked" icon is hard to interpret. One simple...

"Go someplace random" button

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We've gotten a _lot_ of requests for a button somewhere in the UI that will take someone to a random chat room (with at least one but no more than...

Video / Allow muting the audio of other people

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Allow anyone in a room to mute someone else's mic (and put a message in the chat saying who did it). (This is important because people sometimes step away from...

UI nits

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(Probably some or all of these should be broken out as separate issues for easier tracking...) * [x] Show the long version of people's presence descriptors (with status text) in...