[Feature request]: Option to un/archive un/read chats automatically

[Mikaela]

Feature Description

I would like to have a chat archive outside of screen, but available through scrolling, that would contain all chats that I have read recently and that have no new messages.

For example I read the FluffyChat room as there is a new message, then after ten minutes it jumps to archive so I don't see it cluttering the main room list, until there is a new message. If I needed it before that, it would be accessible by search or scrolling to the bottom where the archived chats would be.

Rationale

I think this would make the room list / main view cleaner and potentially less addicting as there would be less scrolling up and down in hopes of seeing a new message either in the favourite chats or less important ones.

Mockup

I am not sure whether I should attach screenshots of WeeChat, Glowing Bear, The Lounge and Beeper or other chat clients that implement this feature.

Additional Context

I tend to configure my WeeChat (IRC client) like this and this is a significant reason why I love the Beeper.com client which comes with this feature. However it's tied to their homeserver.

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[Mikaela]

I still wish to see this.

[gabrc52]

Could you share the screenshots of the other clients which implement this feature?

[Mikaela]

I will have to try some better time (which may be days) as I haven't used them recently, but is there any chance you would volunteer to post them considering you mentioned at matrix-org/matrix-spec#1705 that you are also familiar with Beeper? 😺

[gabrc52]

Yeah, here are some screenshots of the Beeper UI:

When hovering on the archive button:

Next to it is an option to archive all read messages:

When hovering on a chat:

Clicking the check mark moves the conversation to the archive so it doesn't show up in the conversations list

until a new message is received

[Handrail9]

Hello, I'm willing to open another issue if I haven't found the correct one, but I'd like to contribute a screenshot from a discord modification which has a read all messages feature that I miss greatly, ever since I bridged in the 2 discord servers I care about and stopped using the discord app and website.

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This issue is stale because it has been open for 120 days with no activity.

[Mikaela]

This could be a health improvement