June 6, 2024
New Feature: Edit & Delete
You can now edit and delete messages, including photos! This new functionality gives you greater control over your conversations, ensuring your messages always convey exactly what you intend.
In designing these features, we examined how other chat apps, like Slack, handle message editing. Slack doesn’t update edited messages in quoted replies, preserving the original context for business users who need accurate records. We initially adopted this approach but ultimately went back to the drawing board after thinking more about what our particular users expect.
In FlaiChat, when you edit a message, all quoted content updates to reflect the changes. We believe this approach better serves our core users—families. Family conversations are dynamic, and having the flexibility to manage messages easily, whether it’s fixing a typo, updating plans, or removing old photos, is essential.
Although this is a small example of a product decision, it’s one made to stay true to the family use case and not just modeled after what other chat apps do. It embodies our commitment to being user-first, ensuring that every feature we build is tailored to the specific needs of families.
We’re excited for you to try these new features and see how they enhance your FlaiChat experience. We’d love to hear your feedback—let us know what you think!
