On 2025-04-26 12:26, Philipp Hörist wrote:
If for some reason the community deems it absolute necessary to create threads from messages that don't have a thread themself s, i would simply take the message-id of the parent message and use it as a thread id, circumventing any mentioned problems above. This is even moderate safe, because the message-id is never moderated. This comes at the cost of losing the feature to signal that a message should not be used for a thread.
While I don't have any preference for one or the other solution, the latter could be signalled explicitely. Might need a new XEP, though. On Sat, Apr 26, 2025, at 11:24, Goffi wrote:
2. A side discussion explicitly started, that could be seen like a new chat window (UI example: user clicks a "start a new thread button", and start a blank window with it message, this message has a new thread ID, that will be used by people replying to it).
In my experience, this is not how humans work. People will just reply, and not care about any change of subject. That's what is happening with email all of the time :-( Cheers