[FM Discuss] weihnacht prezzy

[John Curwood]

On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 09:40 -0500, Joshua Facemyer wrote:
> 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?):

This idea sounds pretty cool to me.  Having a basic chat for each book
(and i think it is important to have a history for this one), followed
by a 'General' chat box is great.

> 
> ...
> 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).
> 
I Especially like Joshua's idea here of having a pull down list to
filter the chat to a particular channel, from a users point of view the
drop down list would be really easy to implement and intuitive to
understand.

Cheers,

John

> 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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