Thunder App

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An open-source, cross-platform Lemmy client for iOS and Android.

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private/direct messages (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/thunder_app

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Is there currently no way to write or answer direct messages?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the explanation! I just tried the API passing my own user ID as the creator_id and I seem to be getting back all messages. :( If they can add an endpoint or parameter to get a "conversation" (i.e., all messages incoming/outgoing to/from a specific user) then a chat-style interface would be much easier to implement!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, this is exactly the problem I've been planning to eventually solve. It's not an ideal way to lay out DMs, so an app that puts in some work to make it nicer to interact with DMs has been on my wish-list for Lemmy.

I intended to do so essentially either by maintaining a local database of messages as suggested by @[email protected], or, by loading one page at a time, and transforming that into the several conversations.

Then, the "end" of any list (the bottom of the conversation list, or the top of a chat) would have a "load more" button to load more pages, the contents of which would just end up in their respective conversations.

I hadn't thought of the fact that DMs can be edited, so the latter option is likely better instead of a local database.

It would serve 99% of cases where you're having back and forths with just a couple users, where your most recent DMs would always show up with their most recent messages.