Group messages by date and by author

[artpolikarpov]

Slack is grouping messages by date and by author:

And you are not:

Do you think it is possible with Meteor?

[artpolikarpov]

It is of course possible if you fetch() messages and group them imperatively with some javascript. But .fetch() will cause recomputing all the data on every change. The growing list will slow down depending on the number of elements.....

[artpolikarpov]

Another interesting point that Slack group messages only visually. Dom is flag:

.day_divider
.message.show_user
.message
.message
.message.show_user

http://share.artpolikarpov.ru/11F1X

[timbrandin]

We've moved this project to a larger scope: https://github.com/SpaceTalk/SpaceTalk

[artpolikarpov]

Ook. What I have to do? And what is your thoughts about the issue?

[timbrandin]

It is definitely possible with Meteor, you just have to keep track of what was printed in the previous row, the issue is that we're not sorting I think. This might be solved in the latest version of SpaceTalk. I'll have a look at it next week. Thx for reporting.