Ability to redact multiple messages

[aurabindo]

When there are lots of messages, it is inconvenient to delete them one by one.

[lampholder]

This raises an interesting question - how easy do we want to make redacting?

I guess what we should consider is a mechanism for 'selecting' multiple messages; then you can quote them, redact them, forward them etc.

[pafcu]

Related: element-hq/element-web#5536

[lampholder]

Related:

• Find a way to allow bulk redaction to help folks manage spam element-web#2158
• https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/3689
• bulk redact API element-web#5885
• riot should queue up and retry redactions element-web#5898

[PC-Admin]

Why would anyone want it to be that hard?

Riot is currently quite annoying to use because of this. Want to delete 5 messages? You are going to have to click 15 times. 15. It's a cruel joke.

You should be able to select multiple messages (or all in a room) then redact them with 3 clicks.

Can we please make this happen? The Riot UI/UX is currently bad and i would like to see Riot become something worth telling people about.

[Croydon]

Since we are just getting in a lot of spam from Freenode, I would really love to see this happening.

[rubo77]

Limit it to IRC bridge users and only to users who already left

[jywarren]

Much agreed! We're getting hit hard in https://riot.im/app/#/room/#publiclab-testing:matrix.org (warning ugly content)

on the order of hundreds of messages from 10s of spambot users.

Any way for us to help out?

[nunoperalta]

I was looking into this suggestion. I hope it's still being considered.

[rubo77]

put a +1 on the first post to vote for this feature