Improve work environment by not overloading people with notification

[schiessle]

Some thoughts how to reduce the noise if you are in a lot of rooms.

I like to be in many rooms because the topics are important but not in a way that I have to follow them constantly. I rather want to be able to look at the discussion when I want to. But I want to stay in the room so that people can @-mention me and pull me into a discussion at any time

At the moment we can decide if we want to get notified for all messages, only when I get mentioned or not at all.

Drawback:

1. @-mention only also gets triggered when the whole room is mentioned
2. I still see the unread count. So my chat list on the left gets quickly filled up with a lot of unread-chats. For example I constantly mark the "company"-room as read just to clean up my unread filter.

Idea for improvements:

1. We should have a setting to only get notified when I get mentioned directly (no group mentions), fwiw Element for example has such a setting.
2. Have a setting, not sure what would be a good name for it, which ignores the unread count. Maybe something like "silent rooms"

This way I can stay in many rooms, look up the discussion when I want, people can mention me and pull me in a discussion. But beside that I don't get disturbed, neither by notification nor by a huge list of rooms with unread messages which would make the "unread filer" way more useful.

Opinions?

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Subtickets:

• Allow filtering out @-all mentions from notifications, only notifying for direct @-mentions #11235
• Allow to prevent @all for non-moderators #9074
• Ask for confirmation when mentioning all in a large conversation #11881
• Allow to ignore a chat so it does not display unread messages count #2195

[nickvergessen]

We should have a setting to only get notified when I get mentioned directly (no group mentions), fwiw Element for example has such a setting.

I think this is

• covered by Allow filtering out @-all mentions from notifications, only notifying for direct @-mentions #11235
• Addiitonally there is Allow to prevent @all for non-moderators #9074 which would apply to us in certain rooms as well
• And Ask for confirmation when mentioning all in a large conversation #11881 that should help people to reconsider their options

Have a setting, not sure what would be a good name for it, which ignores the unread count. Maybe something like "silent rooms"

• Ref Allow to ignore a chat so it does not display unread messages count #2195