make chat easier to use (maybe the whole window needs a facelift)

[amyxzhang]

chat input box is way too small...also need to be able to drag text box to make it bigger.

[karger]

On 4/11/2015 11:12 PM, Amy Zhang wrote:

chat input box is way too small...also need to be able to drag text
box to make it bigger.

ideally, it will automatically grow as you type more.

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[LeaVerou]

also need to be able to drag text box to make it bigger

This is usually enabled by default in <textarea>s. You guys have applied resize: none in the CSS to disable it, in jquery.mentionsInput.css (which I can’t seem to find in either of the two repos, any idea where I should look?).

(Of course agreed with @karger that it should automatically grow, but resize: vertical; would be a nice quick fix until then.)

[LeaVerou]

Speaking of the chatbox, IMO it needs more horizontal space, and the username needs to come before the message (which is the case in pretty much every messaging app I can think of). It was very confusing to read the conversation with usernames after messages, especially when the messages were long-ish so the username wasn’t visible without scrolling.