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Looks pretty useful, but I would love more modern design, but I get it, it's a first version

thank you for checking it out! Yes, current version just uses standard bootstrap elements. Wanted to at least make it look not super ugly :)

Hopefully I can invest more time in design soon if there is enough interest in this idea overall.

Also if anything can be improved in terms of functionality (there is not a lot of it yet, but maybe something obvious can be added/changed), I'm very interested in learning that as well!

As of feedback I would consider having collapsed all the threads on the first read of messages and the after reading the whole message user can dig down (like on confluence a little bit)

Thanks! This is a totally valid feedback. I agree it can get very messy when showing everything by default. Since we have a button to go to next unread message in a discussion that also expands whatever needs to expanded to show the unread message automatically (but doesn’t make the expansion permanent, so on next page load it will still be collapsed), I think it makes sense to collapse by default

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