> Know anyone?

My family tests this type of software often enough. I know my daughter, [[j3d1h]], desperately hopes for a secure replacement to Discord for her [[friend]] groups. She's sitting on the couch with me right now writing up what she's missing most in your software. Here is what she said:

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just my opinion, man

-how are profiles going to work? do you have an individual username for each community, or will your profile eventually be the same across all the communities you're in?
-profiles you can customize to servers *can be* useful, so long as you can still trace them back to the user's actual profile. otherwise that might enable masquerading as other users
-users able to mark as invisible (appearing offline without actually being so)? good to have in many situations imo, obscuring information from people who may be a danger to you
-how is name collision handled? in a large community, you're bound to have a few people who want the same name (and i get it, your screen name can be very personal)
-discord's old solution, a username and 4 digit id (e.g. felix#1234), seemed convenient and effective to me, but there must be tons of solutions; i like having a way to easily distinguish two users with the same screen name
-personally blocking users you are uncomfortable interacting with, kicking users from communities vs. banning repeat offenders in a more permanent way, temporarily muting a spamming user?
-kicking vs. banning can be an important distinction; i'd rather kick you if you're just inactive all the time, you're free to rejoin whenever you like
-i like keeping it very, very clear what does (or does not) happen when you block, kick, ban, etc; a user shouldn't have to "test" features like these
-important to keep in mind that you rarely (or never) want a user to completely disappear; i always want to leave the option to get back in touch, unban, unmute, etc.
-a friends system is useful for this; maybe i don't want anyone i haven't marked as a friend to DM me
-selectively muting different portions of the app (e.g. i *only* want to be notified of a DM or @ mention, or *only* notifications from *this* community, or no notifications from this channel except @ mentions)
-what if i want to be notified whenever this phrase pops up in a community? might be a question of how easily you can build your own scripts *on top of* Quiet (which i would quite like to do)
-are voice and/or video planned, both in communities as well as dms?
-muting + deafening + turning off camera, nothing in a voice/video chat should be mandatory (owners shouldn't be able to *un*mute someone, but owners muting others can be useful)
-maybe i want to mute that user, but allow everyone else to hear them? turn this one up and that one down on my end?
-audio controls that make sense. if there's a layer of noise cancellation, leave the option to turn it off in case it messes with your audio, etc.
-taking microphone input as it is works just fine, though i can see some users disliking that (mostly people who don't know how/can't modify their settings *outside* of Quiet)
-i've seen many communities in other applications where multiple "owners" existed, as it can make a more safe/welcoming community
-if one owner in any way becomes untrustworthy, having someone with equal permissions in place to get rid of them and undo damage can help; whether they can remove each other or not seems like an important decision
-question about the threat model; members are not capable of sending messages that appear to be from another member, which implies that owners *are* capable of this? that could become a serious issue if true
-user discovery outside of communities, preferably just typing in a username they send you elsewhere?
-will it be possible to delete an entire community? can an owner do this in situations where members don't agree?
-searching channels (and more advanced searches; sent by this user, with an image attached, in this channel; hopefully accessible to users even if they can't do regex on the fly, lol)
-i've found it frustrating not to be able to search every community i'm in at once for something i said; is that feasible?
-any distinction between a community and a DM with 3+ users in it?
-i don't personally see the point, but some apps have this

nitpicky, visual polish, further off details
-dark mode, and in my opinion, ideally a way to customize everything more thoroughly
-if thorough customization, maybe a way to save/export those settings to share?
-maybe the ability to see separate messages sent in a row - is that a message in 3 lines, or 3 messages? just hovering and seeing one line highlighted (and the timestamp for just that line)?
-embedding video and audio files in a convenient manner?
-replying to messages, pinning them to channels (so they can be easily found again) seem very useful
-channel organization and categories; i don't always want the art channels open, i want #announcements at the top, etc.
-messages marked as read/unread can be useful, something to carefully think about
-sometimes i like knowing that someone has read my message; sometimes i like the safety that comes with people *not* being able to know. if i had to pick, it'd be the latter, users can always prove they have read something by responding to it
-client side unread; i'd like to pick up from the last message i read in this channel
-having channels visually marked that there are unread messages is nice
-keyboard navigation beyond pressing tab is super useful; a screen you can reach to describe these shortcuts is equally so

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