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The UX design document - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TIZarCxP0UHcn52o3YdKrFs_ESB3YvDxvCY_SoY-FUk/edit#heading=h.tk0jiei07sxy - and the current implementation, use the word “message history” to describe the past messages in a room.
The expression makes sense internally; but I’m not sure it makes sense from the point of view of a user.
As a user, it’s simply about accessing the room messages again; it may be about “recover the past messages”, or the “old messages” even a simpler, clearer, “access the room again” (The later expression is not technically correct, I agree, but, to me as a user, that’s what it is). Also, if we were to keep the “history” word, it should be “room history” not “message history”, since it’s not the history of the messages, it’s the message themselves, that it’s about)
History is usually a log of actions, not if messages (that would be called ‘literature’ ;) ).
AFAIK other chat platform (whatapp, slack...) don’t the word “history” for past messages. In Slack it’s only used from the point of view of the admin - not for the enduser ( https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=message+history&commit=Search )
Very cosmetic issue but I hope that there’s no too small issue to report :)