November 1: Group Chat Sorting by last visited

i think going by abc was quite easy because our brains are trained on sorting lists by abc for a long time. with the update we have to think more (may be just me 😊)

I think I might be having an distasteful feeling for my depression. Yee.

I'm not a fan of this new way, but maybe that's just because I'm not used to it. Its harder to go from chatroom to chatroom and keep who's in which chat straight in your head if you don't know the name of each chat. I personaly can't remember, but i did know which chat was where in the list and I could rememebr which chat people would be most likely to be on.

I'm ranting know and probably not making any sense. I'll try to keep an open mind, but so far, I'm not lovin it

I have not really gotten a chance to see this in action, but I do think that this is a change that doesn't need to be made.

I would greatly appreciate this update if we two things that come with it:

1) The ability to pin certain chats to the top of our list

2) the option to disable this feature altogether

As others have mentioned, this is an awesome update for most, but for people who like order, or who are moderators this can be very time consuming as well as confusing.

Just by muscle memory I don't even have to look at my monitor to get into X room, I am not too sure why this was added :\ I get that it's to improve navigation and to help people get to X with less hassle and faster, but I don't feel like it was a slow process in the first place. For mods who need to fly around rooms, this will be super confusing ;3

@Laura

I dont find this a good idea.. Its confusing and Chat list (pms) have a problem too..

But we all have to move forward dont you think

What about a user initiated "favorite" system instead of automatic? I think alphabetical works better to help people look for what they haven't already found and that's where people need the help more...Maybe list page could suggest a room based on keywords entered into a search field that also goes more than just the title of the group?

I was discussing this with Cris (@devteam) today and sharing how the change is not good for everyone and messes with some folks's habits and preferences and he had an interesting suggestion. He said, "What if instead of showing rooms in exact recent order, there was just an idea of recently visited - say in the last week - and those rooms would be at the top, alphabetically, and then the rest of the rooms would be after that, also alphabetically?"

This sounded interesting to me so I wanted to share the idea here and get feedback on it, especially from those for whom this recent change is most painful or annoying.

I love this idea much better than alphabetical

Is there a way to 'turn off' this function? I get easily confused by it.