Filter messages by Including/Excluding users temporarily

[SQL-MisterMagoo]

I'm thinking of a facility to quickly tap/click on a user (or even with a /slash command) to include/exclude them from the messages list - just a quick filter, not a permanent one.

I'm not sure of the best UI for this though.

I like the idea of having a command like "/show chris,shawty,magoo" and it would only show messages from users with chris, shawty or magoo in their name, then "/all" would reset it.

[chrissainty]

From a UI perspective, when filtering is enabled we could display a bar at the top with the names of who is in the filter. The bar could be a different colour depending on if the users are excluded or included.

We could perhaps also have a pill style element for each name with a cross and you could click/tap to remove them from the filter list quickly.

[SQL-MisterMagoo]

On mobile it would be nice if that could be a fly out maybe in a corner, tap to expand?

[chrissainty]

ooh yes, that would be nice.