Suggestion: add a button to switch back from fullscreen to small chat

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I certainly support doing something here, we have a bunch of safeguards already.

  1. Mobile has no “dual mode” so there is no need for a button to switch between modes.
  2. If Isolate chat is ticked, there is no “dual mode” , so no buttons to show.

For cases where (1) and (2) does not hold I agree with @codinghorror that we should have a “mode switch” button.

This also means that we need to store “the place you were last at on Discourse when you clicked makes chat bigger” - per browser, stored in memory (not local storage) - falling back to home page.

I guess the question then in for @Designers, where do we fit this button. (considering we need to implement it twice as well - once for sidebar, once for no sidebar)

@markvanlan the use case is:

  • You click expand
  • You click channel A
  • You click channel B
  • You click channel A
  • You click channel B
  • You click channel A
  • You click channel B
  • You click channel A
  • You click channel B
  • You click channel A
  • You click channel B
  • You now are done chatting and want to return to what you were up to on Discourse, you collapse, no need to hit back 17 times.
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