Design Spec (initial thoughts): Desktop

This is just a dump of initial spec and not a thoughtful consideration of desktop mode.

Desktop app

In scope: additive to mobile: Rethink interactions/layout for desktop. Creation and Management of threads.

Yarn icon/title
Profile edit link
Alert buttons: Activity (in active threads) and Shout-Outs (in all threads)
alerts you and, upon click, gives you the thread(s) that have had activity/shout-outs that you haven't seen yet w/ the specific post listed.
Click on the thread/post to go to that post in the thread.
Activity should only show one alert/thread
Create new thread button

Still keep active thread tabs.
When the screen width is too thin for all of them, collapse the ones that won't fit into a menu.
For mobile, all but current tab will collapse under the menu
Allow users to manage their tabs:
reordering
closing

Manage thread
Star thread
Delete thread (admins only)
Change permissions (admin only)
add admins (admin only)
Contains the message input box
Post
Attach
menu of key commands (?)
Newest messages are displayed at the bottom
Ability to scroll up to see previous 3 days messages - as well as go even further up through the use of Archive
Ability to "star" a post
Ability to quote a post
Shape a conversation by designating "topics" [in sidebar?]
Can create topics:
on the fly (via editbox or /topic in post?)
retroactively, maybe by highlighting a post/group of posts and editing topic via editbox (?)
If archive is "active":
ability to show more (and more?) context around search hits [maybe a slider that goes from search hits to the entire thread being shown?]
Ability to clear archive "filter" for that thread
Create subchannels that have parent Yarn group or subgroup permissions?

Sidebar as a global navigation/actions container.

Avatars of people online across active threads (id on rollover for desktop?)
Filters: by thread; ID begins with; non-online people
Lookup of all people
Ability to manage other administrators
Click to get to user page
user page includes: profile; Private chat; list of threads the person is active in (that you have access to)
this makes sense to appear only in the right sidebar. We would need a way to dismiss it (to get back to the sidebar)
When user page is open, Active thread tabs would dim to grey if the person is not an active participant and highlight in some subtle way if they are an active participant.
gaa... we would want PMs to also be filterable via Find... would this make sense or should this be a tab?
We could have the PM just list at the top of the list of threads that they are active in (no matter if they have it open or not). This might make the most sense.

Displays a list of threads.
Filterable by starred/active/inactive/membership/owner etc... [maybe a filter... maybe just lists?]
Search for any public threads
Create a new thread

Used to "jump" between dates (past/present) or filtered/search criteria.
Filters:
By type: images, links, video, code, botalyst, starred...
Search: Keyword, netid (hits to include just posts or also threads in which they are admins? members?) *Calendar date/date range
Results would display integrated within the chat window
Active thread tabs would dim to grey if there are no "hits" in an active thread and highlight in some subtle way if there are hits.
Ability to pull "quotes" from past back into present
Ability to jump back to the present quickly (button) or just by scrolling to the present (perpetual scroll) [or by some ability to expand scope (get more context for "hits") until you are expanded to the point of effectively not filtering by the Find search.

View last 10 (?) topics
jump links to the beginning of that topic in the current thread.
Change Topic (maybe setting somewhere to restrict this to admins?) [in sidebar?]
in real time
retroactively (maybe by highlighting earlier conversation and putting in a new topic?)