Show/hide read receipts by room

[haasn]

Is your suggestion related to a problem? Please describe.

The problem I'm trying to solve is that read receipts can get very distracting for large rooms. (Or rooms in general, really)

It represents a lot of UI noise to see those dots constantly moving around, and it's visually unappealing and distracts from the discussion.

Describe the solution you'd like.

• The ability to choose whether to display read receipts by room
• (Optionall) A built-in (configurable?) heuristic to automatically disable read receipts when joining rooms above a certain number of members.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

The only alternative currently is to disable read receipts globally, which I've done. But I think this is a downgrade for private 1:1 chats (or small rooms with only 2-3 people)

[haasn]

Note: I saw element-hq/element-web#12096 which was closed as supposedly a duplicate of element-hq/element-web#4248 (despite asking for a different solution), which is also closed.

So I decided to open a new issue to track this feature request I still consider very important, which is that read receipts in active rooms are annoying, even if you have the space for them. (Thus making this a technically different issue)