Archived conversations appear on sharing list

[fllp]

The problem

Archived conversations are listed like regular ones when sharing contents to wire (in the 'share to' view).

Environment

• Wire version that exhibits the issue: 3.3.374
• Last Wire version that did not exhibit the issue (if applicable): n/a
• Android OS version used to run Wire: 7.1.2
• Is this a custom firmware or a stock one: custom
• Mobile phone model/manufacturer: n/a
• Mobile network type (EDGE/LTE/Wi-Fi/Offline): n/a

Details

Share anything via the android sharing menu. Select Wire as sharing target. List of conversations including archived ones appears.

[someoneEsle]

Hi, thanks for getting in touch. We think that archived conversations should appear when sharing content to Wire -- just because you archived them doesn't mean that you don't want to ever talk to those people again, right? Can I ask why you would expect a different behaviour?

[fllp]

Oh I see. Well, intuitively I'd have thought archived conversations are those I want to keep for certain reasons but don't write to anymore. A simple example would be, say, an organisational group (birthday present for somebody, holiday with friends). Once the event is organised I might want to keep the messages of the conversation but not write anything more. So at least to me, treating archived convs like regular ones seems a bit counterintuitive. ~~Especially, if the conversation won't get unarchived once I do share some content to it.~~

So, I hope this is a valid use case. If you don't agree, maybe it would help to mark archived conversations somehow in the 'share to' list so one won't unarchive a conversation by accidentally sharing something to it.

[derkommutator]

I find this is the case even for group conversations whose content has been deleted, not just archived. Deleted group chats should certainly not remain on the sharing list. Unfortunately I have someone in my contacts who keeps adding me to groups without my consent (why, oh why, can't Wire ask for consent to join a group?), and my share list is getting polluted with all these deleted group chats.