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Confusing grammar of quit messages and file uploads #1522

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progval opened this issue Feb 9, 2022 · 1 comment
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Confusing grammar of quit messages and file uploads #1522

progval opened this issue Feb 9, 2022 · 1 comment
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S-Tolerable Low/no impact on users T-Enhancement New features, changes in functionality, performance boosts, user-facing improvements. Z-Good-First-Issue Good for newcomers

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@progval
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progval commented Feb 9, 2022

Hi,

Many Matrix users on Libera quit with the message "You have been kicked for being idle", which is confusing, because from the perspective of IRC users, it looks like that user used /quit You have been kicked for being idle. Instead, the message could be: "Leaving because of inactivity".

Similarly, when a Matrix user uploads a file, it looks like this: * nick[m] posted a file: blahblah.txt (8KiB) < https://libera.ems.host/_matrix/media/r0/download/matrix.org/... >, which looks like they used /me and talks about themselves in the third person. Instead, it should look like this: <nick[m]> blahblah.txt: <https://libera.ems.host/_matrix/media/r0/download/matrix.org/...> (8KiB) to feel more natural

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Both suggestions sound reasonable to me. The second one might be debatable, as "Half-Shot posted a file" feels nicer than Half-Shot: blahblah.txt. But to each their own, we could make it configurable.

@tadzik tadzik added S-Tolerable Low/no impact on users T-Enhancement New features, changes in functionality, performance boosts, user-facing improvements. Z-Good-First-Issue Good for newcomers labels May 16, 2022
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