[FM Discuss] weihnacht prezzy

[adam hyde]

how do you feel about these scenarios:
* a chat for a group (not book) and a universal chat
* a chat for groups only and a universal messaging board


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adam

On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 06:50 +1300, John Curwood wrote:
> 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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