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Prioritize showing offline users with unread messages in the right sidebar

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#5,553 opened on Jun 24, 2017

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UXarea: right sidebarhelp wanted

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Description

Edit by @alya 2025-11:

Users with unread messages should always be included in the right sidebar, and sorted above other offline users in each section.

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Research direction
Find the code that sorts users in the right sidebar and modify the sorting logic to place offline users with unread messages above other offline users.
Tech stack
javascriptpython
Domain
frontendbackend
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Feature
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2
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1-3 hours
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Active
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Mostly clear
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GitJavaScript
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75