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
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
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 ...
Done
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)
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
Community Bots / NPCs
I am suggesting bots that users can develop and create.
Here are some of the top personal reasons.
Advanced notification management:
Improved Community ...
Under consideration
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).
It would be nice to have double ticks for delivered messages and single tick for sent messages
Similar to other chat apps like whatsapp where you have single tick indicating a message is sent successfully and a double tick indicating a message is delivered, ...
Done
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
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
Allow sending files (.txt at least)
There is a need to send logs , would be nice to do it within Status.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
channel: RSS Subscribe
The Room administrator can add "RSS Subscribe" to the channel. For example
https://status.app/blog/rss https://status.app/news /rss
Various latest news and blog ...
Under consideration
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
Allow setting own custom status (message)
A mere online/offline is boring, we want fancy descriptive message with some emoji :)
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
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
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
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
Show a indication of there are unread channels above / below the current scrolled list of chans
Sorry hard to explain, but discord / slack show a small indication to tell that there are unread channels outside of what's currently displayed.
Under consideration
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
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 ...
Disappearing messages
After setting up some specific time or days, message should be get deleted automatically, that will help in more privacy.
Under consideration
Support spoiler markdown
Like in Discord, surrounding text with `||` like this ||spoiler|| makes the spoiler hidden unless the user clicks on it.
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 ...
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 ...
Done
File transmission: file formats | Remove Meta data | use self-hosted media storage
### formats
status is open source, and users should not be allowed to upload non-open file formats.
Document Format: .txt/.md/.epub/.odt/.odp/.ods/.odg ...
Under consideration
Status - MasterCard Debit Card
Our company can enable status to launch a status branded debit card directly integrated into web or mobile.
In order to use the card a user has to perform a soft ...
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
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
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
Mute community sections
Allow mute the whole section of channels in a community
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
Notify when a new version is available
When the app starts, it could check whether there is available a new version and then, suggest the user to upgrade.
That way we are sure the majority of users have ...
Under consideration