Quite an old request. At this point, I'd recommend referencing Telegram over Hangouts. I had typed out a whole thing about this feature before I saw this post, so I'm just gonna post what I had:
Add an "archive" view, kind of like the notes view. Conversations could be archived from the same swipe menu that the "delete" option is in.
Archiving a conversation would NOT mute it automatically, so when an archived conversation received a new message, maybe it could either automatically un-archive itself or it could prompt the user to decide what to do (maybe make this customizable in the app's settings?).
However, a muted AND archived conversation would NOT automatically un-archive itself OR prompt the user to un-archive it.
Quite an old request. At this point, I'd recommend referencing Telegram over Hangouts. I had typed out a whole thing about this feature before I saw this post, so I'm just gonna post what I had:
Add an "archive" view, kind of like the notes view. Conversations could be archived from the same swipe menu that the "delete" option is in.
Archiving a conversation would NOT mute it automatically, so when an archived conversation received a new message, maybe it could either automatically un-archive itself or it could prompt the user to decide what to do (maybe make this customizable in the app's settings?).
However, a muted AND archived conversation would NOT automatically un-archive itself OR prompt the user to un-archive it.