Messages, reactions, editing & search

Writing

The composer supports bold, *italic*, underline and strikethrough. The + menu attaches files, opens a channel canvas or automates the channel. There's a GIF picker and an emoji picker, including your organization's custom emoji — drop one by name, like :shipit:.

Reactions, editing and deleting

• React to any message with an emoji, or tap an existing reaction to add yours.
• Edit your own message and it's marked as edited; delete removes it from the conversation.
• Admins can remove other people's messages.

Search

There is one search, and it stays out of the way until you want it: a button on the right that opens a panel underneath itself. The thread does not reflow when it opens.

• It opens scoped to the room you are reading, shown as a chip — #general: — in front of what you type.
• Backspace on the empty box removes the chip and widens the search to the whole workspace, exactly like taking a filter off in a mail client.
• Widened, results come back in two parts: Conversations — which holds rooms *and* the people you message, because removing the rail's filter must not remove your ability to find a person — and Messages.
• A part with nothing in it is not drawn. If neither has anything, you get one plain sentence rather than two empty headings.
• You can only ever search conversations you're a member of.

Link previews

Pasting a URL renders a preview card — one card per message, the first link only, and only when the page actually publishes a title. A card that says less than the URL is worse than no card, so those are skipped. Links to Noots are previewed without fetching anything externally.