Interesting. In WhatsApp for web, the order for #screenReader users used to be "contact name or number, amount of unread messages, latest messaages" in the chat list.

[zersiax@cupoftea.social]

Interesting. In WhatsApp for web, the order for #screenReader users used to be "contact name or number, amount of unread messages, latest messaages" in the chat list. For me, personally, this worked well. You could scroll to find the right chat and open it.
As of just now they swapped this so the number of unread messages comes first, and I wonder why. I guess this is good if you have to scroll through a large amount of chats and you're looking for ones with unread content in them but is that really a more common use case than just ... finding the right person to talk to? Seems like an odd choice to me.

[alexhall@mastodon.social]

@zersiax Designers do dumb things. In Google Chat, reactions are read last. I have to listen to the whole message I sent just to find out if anyone reacted (thumbs up, heart, that kind of thing). It seems like it'd be better to do this a different way.

[zersiax@cupoftea.social]

@alexhall I mean ... In the bucket of chatter name, chat message contents, chat time and reactions I probably would've put it at the end as well, maybe before the timestamp but that's about it. Where else would it go where it isn't annoying?
Maybe a hotkey to query it so you can actually see who reacted what would be better, but then you need to make sure people know the hotkey ... bit of a tricky thing that one