Experimenting with a design idea for a low-stimuli chat client, specifically the visualization of unread messages and notifications (I cannot sufficiently express my burning hatred for anxiety-inducing bright-red-background notification counts)
@joepie91 and only the dots that are relevant will be shown?
@bananas The exact visualization algorithm would have a bit of complexity to it: the current idea boils down to "a ping must always remain visible, even if there have been many non-ping messages after it, but the ordering of dots should still give you an impression of the amount of activity since the ping".
In practice that mostly means it will visualize the last 3 messages, starting the 'fill' from the top (if there's less than 3 then the remainder is light gray placeholder dots), but the pings will 'pile up' once pushed to the top and always remain visible even if there have been many non-pings since.
@joepie91 it's a nice concept