Our customers made these suggestions for improving Status Desktop. Suggestions for improving Status Desktop.
Up arrow to edit out last sent message
It would be great if we could edit our last sent message by pressing the up arrow (like on Discord).
It saves time as you don,t have to use your mouse.
Extend emoji reactions
We have only these 6 emoticons for reacting to a message; give us the full choice of reacting with _any_ emoji
Creating @Desktop, @Mobile, @Status to mention multiple people at the same time
Creating kind of maillists to mention multiple people with a single mention
Polls
Would be create to make Polls in group-chats/channels!
In Discord it's intended to be done using many emoji reactions.
In Telegram there's a special feature for this.
Under consideration
Keep categories closed on restart and just show channels that have new messages
It would be nice, first, that categories that are closed (minimised/toggled) stayed closed when reopening the app.
Secondly, like Discord, when a category is ...
Under consideration
Support for custom emojis
An user should be able to install an emoji pack or add custom emojis. Communities could also have their own set of emojis
Shareable message links
It should be possible to share (or bookmark) a link to a particular message (e.g. message sent to a channel in a community or even a private message).
Right click - copy action for messages' actions list
When i right click a message, i should be able to copy it (select appropriate action from suggested actions)
Tool for migrating private message history
This is a bit controversial feature suggestion, but I'd like to have a tool that would allow me to add additional private message history with a particular contract.
Under consideration
Improve navigation speed between chats and tabs (chat, communities,settings)
It would be great if switching tabs and/or chats were more immediate
Planned
Syntax highlighting for shared code snippets
When I share code snippets using the special markdown syntax:
```language
code
code
```
... I expect the code to be highlighted.
Planned
Signature simplification
Simple UI explanations of what the TX will do. ie, you browse onto a website, go to sign a TX, it should explain what you are giving permission to do, ie. “By signing ...
Under consideration
Chat Threads
This is one thing I miss from Slack, which is the possibility of organizing messages in threads (see image). Discord supports this as well, though only in channels ...
Under consideration
Custom theme support
It would be awesome to have custom theming support similar to what's available using the BetterDiscord client.
Users can create a CSS file that contains colors, ...
Under consideration
Allow sending files (.txt at least)
There is a need to send logs , would be nice to do it within Status.
Under consideration
Display a line separator indicating which messages are new in a channel since your last visit
This feature is present in most modern group chat applications.
Change highlight color of jump-to messages
There's an issue describing the problem here: https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop/issues/8271
In a nutshell: let's change the color of the highlighted ...
Delegate wallet feature
A delegate feature, so that you can use hot wallet to connect and verify holdings on your cold wallet without the risk of loosing everything with one simple click. ...
Under consideration
Dollar cost average option when buying
DCA, from bank to wallet. Give people the opportunity to build up their assets passively, this guarantees TX fees via Status. ie. Give permission for weekly/monthly ...
Under consideration
Removable Paired devices
We've got a maximum of 3 paired devices, but no way of removing them. If you change your phone or computer and the list is full, you won't be able to pair and sync ...
Under consideration
Add a messages counter for muted channel
I want to know how many messages are in the channel that I muted. Telegram has an example (please see attachment)
The counter should be shown as "inactive" and ...
Under consideration
Switch to chat (CMD+K) should offer fuzzy matching
Competing products such as Discord and Slack offer fuzzier matching where typing "jms" for example will successfully match for a contact named "James".
Under consideration
Click'n'Drag select across multiple messages
You can currently select text from a single message when click'n'dragging. This is kind of bothersome when trying to copy several messages to a text editor or to ...
Support for Pinning user chats
Motivation: A user often as important chats that he/she wants to always be on top or easily accessible, but these often get pushed down when there is a lot of other 1 ...
Under consideration
Keyboard shortcut to move through channel and group chats history
Back history navigation: As a user, I want to press the "Modifier Key + Arrow Left" to move to the previously selected channel or group chat
Forward history ...
Allow setting own custom status (message)
A mere online/offline is boring, we want fancy descriptive message with some emoji :)
Add the ability to re-order Communities in sidebar
Similar to Discord - adding the ability to drag Community icons in the sidebar up and down to change their ordering. Allows users to place their most visited ...
Under consideration
Increase image profile size in the chat section list
Motivation: The profile images on the chat list are quite small, this makes it hard to quickly parse what chat it is. Also the status color is REALLY small and very ...
Under consideration
Text formatting
Please could we add underline as an option, either in the format bar, or allow ctrl + u?
Could the bold text also be bolder? Currently it doesn't stand out very much
Mute community sections
Allow mute the whole section of channels in a community
Advanced Search Operators
Competing chat applications such as Discord and Slack feature advanced search operators which allow to search messages from specific authors, or from specific date ...
Under consideration
Scroll UX is not comfortable when using touch pad
It isn't easy to control the scroll when using the touchpad.
It behaves as if it had inertia so with minimal finger movement, the scroll moves super fast almost ...
Done
Support spoiler markdown
Like in Discord, surrounding text with `||` like this ||spoiler|| makes the spoiler hidden unless the user clicks on it.
Under consideration
Make the Chat look less crowded
The chat area looks very crowded and overwhelming. I think its mainly because there is no spacing between messages. We can compare with Discord to understand
Planned
Being able to cancel a message reply by pressing esc key on the keyboard
It would be helpful to have a keyboard shortcute to cancel a message reply by pressing esc key on the keyboard
Done
Support clipboard image pasting
Support pasting a screenshot from the clipboard like most of the apps do.
improve how new messages are shown on the community
instead of only being a "lighter" color whenever a new message arrives to a channel in a community, would be useful to have a more "visible" distinctive.. maybe using ...
Planned
Importer from Slack
It should be easy for communities and organizations currently using Slack to migrate their message history to Status.
Planned
Support ENS for contact request
Being able to add a contact using their ENS or stateofus.eth name
Done
Link previews: add option to enable/disable link previews with exceptions
Suggested initially by Igor: when managing which sites to enable link previews for, we could add the following options:
1) Enable link previews for ALL domains ...
Under consideration
Add the ability to search through sent media (pics and videos /docs/links) in any message.
Similar to WhatsApp - have an option where users can search through just the media that has been shared in 1on1 / ad-hoc group message and in community channels.
Under consideration
Unread indicator (red dot without counter) meaning there are some unread messages
Unread indicator (red dot without counter) meaning there are some unread messages in groups / channels that are not mentions or replies or 1x1 chat messages (where we ...
Under consideration
Search bar in the Community Members list
Would it be useful to have a search bar in the Community Member list so that a user can search for a specific member in a large community?
Under consideration
Add snooze or mark as unread to have a reminder that you want to continue the conversation later on
The option will mark the message from where the user wants to continue the conversation, next time when reopening the channel.
Under consideration
Ability to remove link preview by clicking cross button
1. enable links preview (for example GH)
2. post a link to GH, for example issue link
3. the link is shown with preview
4. no chance to remove the preview (like in ...
Under consideration
Allow to add private notes about a contact
Discord allows you to add a note about a contact that only you can see. This is useful to track who is who in a ever-changing world of pseudonyms and profile ...
Under consideration