Make public conversations persistent

[pmarini-nc]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When participating in public conversations, leaving the conversation window makes the conversation disappear from the conversation list so that you need to rejoin the conversation again with the conversation public link.

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be great that public conversation were "first-class citizens" and be persistent by default. The user can decide whenever he/she wants to leave the conversation.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Rejoin the conversation

Additional context
This feature is useful for users that communicate from two or more separate Nextcloud instances and need to establish a persistent communication channel.

[mahibi]

Hi Pietro

i cannot reproduce this.
find my successful test in the video.
I first created a conversation in web and opened it to registered users. Then i copied the link which is then used in the video..

please describe at which point you did something different or discovered a different behaviour.

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[pmarini-nc]

That's strange.. I did the same as you, I would say, but the conversation is not persistent

I'm using Talk v13.0.0

[mahibi]

okay that's strange. also can't reproduce with 13.0.0
did you discover this also on other nextcloud instances or only on your local test instance?

additionally it's strange that the messages in the chat seem to be duplicated..

[pmarini-nc]

It is also reproducible on c.nc.com.

I don't if this is relevant, but I'm running talk-android as downloaded from here and my device runs /e/OS

In any case, if you cannot reproduce, I would say that something is wrong with my setup and happy to hear that the feature is already implemented.

[pmarini-nc]

Now, in Talk Android 17.1.2 against Nextcloud server 17 I cannot even enter the conversation once ("Something went wrong")

[mahibi]

Now, in Talk Android 17.1.2 against Nextcloud server 17 I cannot even enter the conversation once ("Something went wrong")

can you enter the conversation in webUI?

[pmarini-nc]

Yes, the conversation behaves normally in the target server

[mahibi]

Is it an instance that i could access with a test account?

[mahibi]

Having a closer look, i think i oversaw that you asking for this to be from a seperate instance.
Unfortunately, this feature had to be dismissed as experimental.
While modernizing the codebase (conductor migration), it was even removed for the upcoming v18 to join other instances via conversation link. So for now conversation can only be joined on the same instance.
Communicating between different instances will come back again, and then also for all platforms!