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When you want to close a personal chat and do not use mobile view, you have to hover on the chat with the mouse.

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That doesn’t work using a tablet. When you tab the chat you can somehow move the date, but I’m not able to click the :heavy_multiplication_x:

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I added the swipe months ago, should be a solved problem.

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Actually I answered too fast, this is about TOUCH + DESKTOP VIEW, which is still bad I agree.

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My workaround for a long time has been to use the x next to the chat in the sidebar. While that was a little difficult because the button was not visible due to the lack of hover on a tablet, it worked. I was able to remove a chat from my sidebar.

But it doesn’t work anymore. I think the button is no longer there. I think it’s now impossible to close a chat using a tablet.

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I don’t a have a tablet handy to test, but on mobile you can long press to open the dropdown menu and then Leave or Close a channel, can you confirm this is also not working for you, please?

Thank you!

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What do I long press? Or which dropdown menu do you mean?

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Does not work on my tablet.

But with some testing I found out that tapping the date/time works, because that clicks the invisible close button. I am not sure I would call that a solution. It felt more like a bad surprise because I didn’t want to remove the chat in this case.

But this menu with all the features it offers doesn’t seem to work on tablets. I think there are other places for all these features, but I guess there was a reason why you built this menu, so it would be nice if it was available for all users.

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I’m on my iPad so I’ll just chime in here. I have the X to close a chat, which appears when I click on the cat row (not the username to open the chat). However, if I were to swipe, I get an interesting behaviour. The X appears, but so does another x under it. The second one is enclosed in a circle, and swiping on the row moves the original x all the way to the username until the username is covered, but nothing is closed.

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I intend to merge this PR this week, it should address the reported tablet issue.

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