Chat History

[Submachine]

I sometimes find myself in a situation where i need to look back something that was a long time ago. Chat History is currenlty designed that people can check back messages from

• 2 hours ago
• 2 days ago
• 2 weeks ago
• from the very beginning

When we select the time period, the oldest post of the said time period shows up and we can start browsing from there. The problem is if we want to find something just before the oldest post of one of these periods. So if i want to check something that happened 3 weeks ago, i have to go back for the first post made in chat, and start browsing through from there (I had to do this once, and it was not a fun experience).

My suggestion is enhancing browsing somehow. Either by making it possible to jump x days worth of messages both ways, or by dividing chat messages into year-month-day periods for easier browsing. Or really anything that makes it easier. ^^

[Fippe94]

or having it be a some big page were we can scroll freely, instead of having to click "next" lots and lots of times, slowly if we are not sure exactly when we should look.

[iDaire]

This is a rather tedious task.
I do not enjoy this at all.
There should be a search bar in which you can enter the time and date to search for a message.
Or two buttons, in which you can enter dates in so you can find the messages in between.

[antiaverage]

Yeah, chat history is total crap. It needs an overhaul. This is not a small task, so I'm not sure when it will be done. I will leave this topic open until this is resolved in some manner.