[Adium-devl] (no subject)

[Eric Richie]

On May 10, 2008, at 10:54 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:

>
> On May 10, 2008, at 7:09 PM, Eric Richie wrote:
>>
>> I REALLY don't like the sound of this.  This would kill usability for
>> a great many of our users.  I don't want to turn something as simple
>> as twitter into something that (arguably) rivals irc in beginner
>> unfriendliness.  I DO NOT want to have to rely on a bunch of commands
>> and arguments to interact with the service.  I am unwilling to hand
>> something like that to our users.  I realize that most twitter users
>> are more tech-savvy than most, but that's not what we're about.  If
>> our goal is simplicity and user experience, this would be a very
>> precarious path to travel down.  I would like to see what you have,
>> but I currently have some apprehension based on what I've heard thus
>> far.
>
> OK OK I've been conflating two things here:
>
> The first thing, the thing that I'm talking about, is just the XMPP
> "ui" for Twitter. It isn't built in to Adium at all -- all of the set
> up and such happens through the Twitter website. You don't enter your
> contact information into Adium at all -- you're just IMing the twitter at twitter.com
>  JID from any of your XMPP accounts. Plenty of people use the IM
> interface today. All I'm adding is a little tweak for people who do to
> make it more usable. That's about it. In the future, Twitter may be
> offering a more comprehensive XMPP API based on PubSub, but for now
> they don't.
>
> Secondly thereis a largely separate issue that Zac raised, of wether
> or not we want to include a more "official" Twitter interface (a la
> Facebook IM) in Adium using the Twitter web APIs. I think we might
> want to do something like that once we figure out better what the
> Social Networking experience is going to be, but Twitter is pretty
> different from actual messaging, so we should be careful.
>
> The best suggestion I heard for handling what Zac is talking about is
> a bookmarked group chat, and everyone you're following is in the
> userlist. How that interacts with things like: @replies from people
> who you aren't following, and Direct Messages still needs some
> thought, but it could work.
>
> Does that clear things up?

Indeed, much better! :)

-Eric