{"id":29686,"date":"2023-09-30T19:04:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T23:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=29686"},"modified":"2023-10-01T01:59:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T05:59:25","slug":"text-sms-chat-interfaces-need-a-way-to-show-whats-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=29686","title":{"rendered":"text\/sms\/chat interfaces need a way to show &#8220;what&#8217;s new&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>see also: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=29694\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chat\/text\/sms multiple topics split like old rolodex<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>why doesn&#8217;t text smsm chat apps shouw an obvious &#8220;these messages are news and unseen&#8221; like thunderbird does? or the read line in BoingBoingBBS message list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think fading out the already seen messages would be best, still there to read, but obvous that they&#8217;re not new. unread.  difficulty: how does the chat\/sms\/texting app know where youi last read to.  perhaps allow me to long press on the space between messages and &#8220;set last read here&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>here&#8217;s an example using sepia where I mean to be faded or greyed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-faded-2023-09-30-19-15-24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-faded-2023-09-30-19-15-24-424x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29691\" width=\"298\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-faded-2023-09-30-19-15-24-424x1024.jpg 424w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-faded-2023-09-30-19-15-24-124x300.jpg 124w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-faded-2023-09-30-19-15-24.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>thunderbird uses bold to show unread messages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-2023-09-30-19-08-19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-2023-09-30-19-08-19-1024x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-2023-09-30-19-08-19-1024x266.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-2023-09-30-19-08-19-300x78.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-2023-09-30-19-08-19-768x199.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-2023-09-30-19-08-19-750x195.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-2023-09-30-19-08-19-1226x318.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-2023-09-30-19-08-19-675x175.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-2023-09-30-19-08-19.jpg 1283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BoingBoing BBS has a marker line; Fark does something similar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-Boing-Boing-BBS-2023-09-30-19-10-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-Boing-Boing-BBS-2023-09-30-19-10-12-1024x597.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29690\" width=\"550\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-Boing-Boing-BBS-2023-09-30-19-10-12-1024x597.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-Boing-Boing-BBS-2023-09-30-19-10-12-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-Boing-Boing-BBS-2023-09-30-19-10-12-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-Boing-Boing-BBS-2023-09-30-19-10-12-750x437.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-Boing-Boing-BBS-2023-09-30-19-10-12-1226x714.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-Boing-Boing-BBS-2023-09-30-19-10-12-675x393.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/chat-text-sms-improvement-highlight-new-messages-Boing-Boing-BBS-2023-09-30-19-10-12.jpg 1414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>see also: chat\/text\/sms multiple topics split like old rolodex why doesn&#8217;t text&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[376,1457],"tags":[1820,919,1242],"class_list":["post-29686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mine","category-projects","tag-chat","tag-mine","tag-software-improvements","wpcat-376-id","wpcat-1457-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29695,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29686\/revisions\/29695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}