Threads unread notifications are hard to notice and understand

[novocaine]

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a thread
2. Someone replies to it.
3. A dot appears on the thread icon

This dot is very far away from the other notifications in the room list, so I don't usually see it

4. Click on the thread list using the thread icon with the dot on it

I'm not taken to the the thread with unreads; it just opens the threads panel at wherever it was last.

It is not clear which thread has unread messages; there's no badges in the list so I have to go to the bottom of the thread list and click around and see

Outcome

What did you expect?

To be clear lead to where my unread notifications are coming from

What happened instead?

I either miss the notifs or I don't know where they're coming from.

Operating system

OS X

Application version

Element Nightly version: 2022022301 Olm version: 3.2.8

How did you install the app?

Nightly

Homeserver

matrix.org

Will you send logs?

No

[HarHarLinks]

I have commented about this on element-hq/element-meta#322 and other issues

[daniellekirkwood]

The Thread List should have icons to indicate which thread has the updates you haven't yet seen.
The Thread list should also be ordered by latest message (it is not today)

If you are not seeing the icon on the thread list then that's a bug and let's raise an issue for that.

We'll keep this issue as a note for @janogarcia that a design enhancement may be needed as we're seeing this feedback consistently.

[novocaine]

This has been improved through a bunch of different fixes so happy to close

[syadnom]

I dont find this solved at all. I have 6 unread notifications with an idicator on the chat threads. I cannot find the undread comments. there is no indivation that is apparent on any of the threads.