Turning off chat individually for every game

Platform is Linux with Chromium browser most of the time (occasionally Firefox).

I play almost exclusively 3 days / move games. Most of the games are with a real life friend and we do chat.

I have ongoing game where the opponent started to push me through the chat to make my moves as quick as if it was a rapid game. I don't really bothered myself, just turned off the chat.

The unexpected effect was that it blocks the chat in every games I play. I still would like to chat in other games.

I wish if this feature would work as follows:
- Turning feature on/off in preferences would affect every game
- Turning feature on/off in game would affect only the particular game

Good suggestion

+1 good idea @AroHar

I believe you can already do that, by simply clicking the checkmark next to the "Chat room" tab...

@Nel_S It doesn't work like that, at least not on my platform. You thick the box and in switches chat on/off in every game ONLY.

However if you have different experience then tell your OS and Browser please, then I will test if difference is made by my setup.

It's a small change that I think would be nice.

Good suggestion

@AroHar The idea probably needs a slight. alteration, AFAIK: there would need to be a separate Boolean (true/false variables) for every tournament that you and every other user have ever joined.

That many booleans could take up some storage space - so maybe as a "clean-up" aspect, the chat for a tournament defaults to your "preferences" setting as soon it is over. That way lichess wouldn't have to store all of those booleans for all time.

Still, definitely support this idea.

@Jacob531
Thanks, for your input and your support!

I think if a tournament settings overdrives the personal ones, virtually no need for any storage. Decision can be made on priority. However, I would leave to the developers to decide how to do it, if they will ever.

But, I agree a lot of Boolean can consume a lot of storage even though it requires only 1 bit in theory.