[Feature Idea] Chat mention context

[jzisser9]

I just had a neat idea for a feature while chatting in stream today.

I often see users having conversations with each other in chat using mentions (@), where they'll go back-and-forth, using mentions to alert the other user to their response. Following the conversation can be difficult because you need to go from the mention, to scrolling up in chat to find the name, to then reading the message, finding that mention, and then rinsing and repeating.

It would be cool if there was a way to immediately see "conversation chains" between users who mention each other in chat. An example implementation off the top of my head might look like this:

1. On mousing over a chat message with a @mention in it, faintly highlight the message to show the user it can be clicked.
2. When clicked, gather all messages between the current user and the user they mentioned, and arrange them oldest-to-newest in a flyout box, with timestamps.

[freaktechnik]

This belongs to https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/297558-general and not an inactive bug tracker for obsolete API documentation.