@roland Actually I don't like to see "Direct" as a separate timeline: this is really just a filter for messages, where I'm in a "To" field (i.e. one of message recipients, not necessarily the only one).
Separation between Public and Private (non - Public) messages is far more important, but we don't have this separation in AndStatus UI yet. Read on this in https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/95 and related tickets.
Maybe "Private" timeline, separated from Home timeline, is what should be implemented instead. And "Show non-public messages in Home timeline" option (defaulted to "yes" to preserve current behavior).
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Actually, this will also mean that Direct messages will not be shown in the Home timeline :-) (They willbe in the Private timeline)
@johnnynull