[FM Discuss] weihnacht prezzy

[Joshua Facemyer]

What about this:

Each book has a separate chat which has a primary place which works 
pretty simply, but there's an additional chat box below it which can be 
filtered by the user to show a particular channel or all of them 
together.  It would default to "all", in which case it would display 
each message with its user and channel (users and channels having their 
own color variation too?):

...
adam#inkscape: coolio!
joshua#inkscape: bon soir, touts les gents!
douglas#olpc: I think we should get some popsicles...
newguy452: hey, anybody here? (main FM channel, no "#channel" specified)
adam: hey, newguy452, new here?
...

The user can respond in the second box in several ways:

#inkscape: hey, inkscapers! (This would go just to the inkscape channel)
hey, everyone (this would go to the main FM channel)
#all: hey, everyone on all channels (this would go to all channels)

In addition, the user could monitor a particular channel by selecting 
from a dropdown.  In that case, he just comments on the channel as 
normal (no channel specified).

Sound too crazy?

JF

On 12/22/2009 07:38 AM, adam at flossmanuals.net wrote:
> interesting. however we might have too much traffic for using this across
> a single channel...any thoughts about how we could manage higher traffic
> volume?  also, i think the history component of the chat is
> important...how would we manifest that? do we need to?
>
>> Perhaps we can have a single chat but ask people to use hashtags to mark a
>> chat as being relevant to a particular book or an event (conference,
>> sprint). It's too much too ask someone to add a hashtag to every single
>> messagee, but if they use the hashtag when they come online and begin
>> participarting, others can check for the tag and start following if they're
>> interested.
>>
>> Andy
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