[FM Discuss] weihnacht prezzy

[Joshua Facemyer]

I only like my proposal.

;)

JF

adam hyde wrote:
> 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
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> On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 06:50 +1300, John Curwood wrote:
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>> On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 09:40 -0500, Joshua Facemyer wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>
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>>> ...
>>> 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.
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>> Cheers,
>>
>> John
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>>> Sound too crazy?
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>>> JF
>>>
>>> On 12/22/2009 07:38 AM, adam at flossmanuals.net wrote:
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>>>> 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?
>>>>
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>>>>> 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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