Steve Howell 3a12b514f1 css: Remove Group PMs from **left** sidebar. ...

First, we are not removing Group PMs from the
right sidebar, where most people see it.

There is a setting called:

    [ ] User list in left sidebar in narrow windows

There are probably very few people that turn that on,
and even when they do, the setting only takes effect
when your window is less than a certain width.

This feature bitrots very quickly, because very few
core maintainers use it.

It's already kind of broken.  It gets very crowded,
and we get CSS bugs when we move the right sidebar
into the left sidebar.  (We can fix those bugs, but
they crop up unexpectedly due to the nature of CSS.)

We historically tried to maintain a ratio between
stream list, single-user buddy list, and group-user
buddy list, but the group-user buddy list gets
particularly crowded out, and it's basically useless
now.

We want to revisit the entire feature eventually, but
this commit at least gives the normal buddy list some
breathing room.

Also, if you need to see the info in the group PM
list, you can basically expand "Private Messages" to
see your recent group PM conversations.  And if you
want to see who's actually online, that info is
already implicit from the normal buddy list.

2019-02-11 19:17:52 -08:00

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