Improve thread behavior: Auto-exit after reply or provide configurable thread participation logic

[timramone]

Currently, when the bot is invoked in a thread (via mention or reply), it starts replying to all subsequent messages in that thread, regardless of whether it's directly addressed again. This can lead to noisy or unintended replies in conversations that continue after the bot's help is no longer needed.

Right now, the only way to stop it is to explicitly use an "exit" command like stop listening. This is easy to forget and puts an unnecessary burden on users.

Suggested Improvement: introduce a way to automatically exit or ignore thread messages after a certain condition is met — for example:

Stop listening after the bot has replied once, unless it's directly mentioned again (add a configurable option to control this behavior, e.g. autoExitThreadsAfterReply: true)

Thanks!

[yGuy]

I understand and I already discussed this here:

#15

TL;DR;

I believe the user experience would be horrible if you had to mention it with every reply, again and again.

Nobody tried the above PR which added that feature and reported back on usability. Unless people try that version and tell us it's great, I don't see me implementing it, again.

I would be happy to merge a variant that is more clever than requiring you to mention it every time. At the very least I want to still be able to chat with the bot alone without having to address him in every line.

[timramone]

what if it would be confugurable somehow? per thread, for examlpe

[yGuy]

Happy to hear your suggestions (how to configure.... it ) and get your PR!