Left Sidebar : The "Messages" item seems useless

[jeangb]

When the user is logged-in in Riot, the "Messages" item is quite useless in the sidebar menu, because when the user needs to access to the messages list : either the menu is not aivailable, or when it's available, a touch outside the menu close it.

[giomfo]

see https://zpl.io/Z25f89B

[antikewl]

We can either:

• Remove it
• Add shortcuts to filters for "Favourites", "low priority" etc. to this menu.

[giomfo]

Amandine, what is your point of view here?

[AmandineLP]

I would remove and replace with shortcuts
thanks!

[daboross]

Could we instead make the sidebar accessible by swiping from the left edge when in Setting, a channel, etc.?

I was surprised that this was not the behavior when I stared using the app, especially since there was this Messages thing there that made it seem like Messages was just one of the states of the app, not the thing you need to go back to in order to launch anything else.