Activity sidepanel widget (gitter-like)

[Half-Shot]

We'd like to aim to have something a bit similar to:

To have parity with Gitter. Hookshot already handles incoming notifications from a variety of services and posts them into rooms, but this feature would be about showing a filtered timeline in the side-panel, for specific events. One way of achieving this could be a Widget that listens for the specific timeline events for hookshot messages, and presents them in a nice way.

The way I'd go about this would be:

• Create a new widget type in hookshot "activity" which is created by a command (for now, we could add a button in the room config widget to spawn one also).
• The widget asks to listen for m.room.message events in the room.
• The widget will then listen for each message, and look for events containing hookshot event data, and then presents them in the side panel.
• We may need to ensure that we reliably posting this extra metadata in all notifications. We might, at this point in time, ensure that we're also sending extensible events.
• We may also need to find a way to show these events in the activity window only, which may be best handled by sending extensible events without fallbacks to prevent clients from rendering them.

[virtuald]

Is there an ETA on this? The sidebar was really a primary reason I kept gitter around. Without it, we might as well move to discord.

[lucaferranti]

any updates? The github integration was very neat and one of the things that made gitter very suitable for dev-rooms.

Just wanted to give my 2cents, that I think this should be prioritized

[calculuschild]

Checking in a few months later to see if there's any movement. This feature is sorely missed!