Navigation by date

[matrixbot]

Created by @ richvdh:sw1v.org.

It would be useful to be able to move back and forwards in the history by day and to specific dates (for example, via a date picker)

[MurzNN]

Maybe will be easier to implement this feature via adding filter by date in search form - this will show all needed messages when search with empty keyword and ability for scroll history to needed date by clicking on message.
Good example of search with date interface is in Twist app: https://static.twistapp.com/8545d0058b88794f6bb55eda07d40003.png

I create separate issue about improving search interface with date field and others: https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/4752

[lukebarnard1]

Maybe this can be made part of the sticky date headers that we plan on having?

[ara4n]

I think we can do this now using the sticky date headers in the new design. We'd do this by clicking on the sticky header on the top of the timeline and then get a dialog to go jump to the required date. It might need a new server API, but the logic is there already as needed for the purge API. See also #3575

[joepie91]

Especially for conversations that aren't active every day, it'd also be desirable to have a way to quickly jump between non-empty dates; a freeform date search would be much less useful there, as you might be looking for "the conversation that we had about two weeks ago", but not recall the exact date.

For that reason, I don't think that a date search alone would be sufficient.

[dominikwerder]

Would it be possible to mimic the date chooser that is used on Discourse forums?

[turt2live]

Closing in favour of #7677 (same number of thumbs, more modern, more discussion)