# Personal message chat list is too long

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-chat-list-is-too-long/213334>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** chat\
**Created:** [December 25, 2021, 9:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-chat-list-is-too-long/213334 "2021-12-25T09:45:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 1:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-chat-list-is-too-long/213334/4 "2021-12-29T01:56:24Z")

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I can think of 2 options here:

1. We can introduce a hard limit here of say 25? [discourse-chat/lib/chat\_channel\_fetcher.rb at 2d91ea83fb26082ed073daa8032fb2443c300e05 · discourse/discourse-chat · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/blob/2d91ea83fb26082ed073daa8032fb2443c300e05/lib/chat_channel_fetcher.rb#L81-L81) very easy one line fix, but I wonder if we should allow site operators to make it a bit longer or shorter if they wish via a site setting.

2. Discussed a bit with @j.jaffeux but we would like and X button on hover. This is ideal cause you would easily be able to prune the list as you see fit.

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Also ties in to the request to support muting and blocking cause in some cases you may want to opt out … but opt out hard.

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