Feature request: Organize read-receipts so that receipts from mentioned people are not hidden

[pafcu]

Description

Read receipts are shown as small icons along the right edge of messages. If there are a lot of them only a few are shown and "+N" is shown to indicate that there are N more receipts. However, some read receipts are more important than others; e.g. you usually want to know if a person you mention has read the message. Therefore, it would be nice if mentioned people would be prioritized when choosing which icons to show, and which to hide behind the "+" functionality.

Steps to reproduce

• Mention someone in a message
• A lot of people read it
• Note that you can sometimes only see the read receipt of the person you mentioned if you click the "+" button

Version information

• Firefox 57
• Ubuntu
• riot.im/develop version f72b44650b70-react-7118f7a38f79-js-0238ecebedfc

[turt2live]

Currently they are sorted by time, which I personally prefer. The person who sent the message would more than likely be checking the room anyways to see if the person read it if the message was that important. People who happen to be in the room and did not mention the person likely don't care a whole lot about whether or not that person read the message, and if they did they'd also likely be monitoring the room more closely.

[pafcu]

The person who sent the message would more than likely be checking the room anyways to see if the person read it if the message was that important.

Well, yeah. And how do you check that? By looking at the read receipts. Which is what I'm proposing to make easier.

Also, personally I care a lot more about who read a message, rather than when they did.

[turt2live]

Most of the rooms I'm in have a manageable number of users, so seeing who read a message isn't difficult. For larger rooms I'm generally less interested in read receipts overall.

[pafcu]

Well, this is specifically for cases where you have a lot of people. E.g. I write to someone in #matrix:matrix.org and I want to know if they read it.

If the number of reads is small enough to not trigger the "+" thing then nothing should change.

[turt2live]

I still personally would prefer to keep it as-is. As much as I hate infinite settings, if this does get implemented I'd at least like to see it behind a settings flag.

[lampholder]

There's an interesting idea in here - certainly the idea of making it clear when a binged user has 'seen' that bing has merit (though it would be interesting to think about what sort of behaviours that's likely to encourage).

[lampholder]

/me idly wonders about the idea of an 'acknowledgable message' that binged users have to acknowledge with an explicit button press, which maybe notifies you when they've done that...