I’ve been exploring the Triage with Persona option for auto-responses and noticed that when using thinking models with slower background processing, there’s no visual cue for users to know an auto-response is in progress. It would greatly improve the user experience if a processing indicator—such as “Thinking” or “Reasoning”—were displayed while the system is formulating a response.
Are there any plans to implement such a feature? I believe this addition would help manage expectations and enhance overall interaction.
I moved this to feature, I don’t think this has popped up before, but it is certainly an interesting idea.
We have a lot of internals to support this kind of feature and this can happen as well outside of responders, eg @mentioning a persona that allows mentions in a topic.
Any additional consideration for this Thinking visual queue when AI thinking is causing delay? I think this is good for the Discourse presentation. Instead of a user being unaware of delay or frustrated they just chill and wait.