first thing that comes to mind is that every first comment
generates a small unique id that identifies a thread. Users can do
@uid to post to a thread. This
id is also posted with every comment posted to that thread. The ids
can be recycled every 3-4 days. But perhaps people have already
discussed better ways to address this problem; I had asked for this
very thing when I had joined Jaiku few months back.
Site-wide thread IDs recyclable every couple of days? They are
gonna grow too big to be usable (4-5 digits). Maybe user+thread ID
could work, even though answering to any user/thread ID combination
in the same thread would be equivalent
One kludgy suggestion for imku (why not for web, too): When the
user who is about to reply with @ would send message "hold" (or
press equivalent button on web), and send a @ message, the backend
would remember the last message of that target that was sent
through imku (or visible on the replier's "overview tab") and
assume that as the message as a reply target? Without "holding the
view" the behaviour would be as it is now.
I am very new jaiku user and do not know the practicalities of
the imku and J api or the backend that much. Just my 0.02EUR.
This could be a complement, to make it easy to still reply just
to the latest, but frankly being constrained to that is a bit
awkward as well, and sometimes I do want to be able to quick-reply
to different threads without picking up the web interface. Just my
0.02 EEK :-P
15 comments so far
just prefix your message with #CHANNEL
3 months ago by BUGabundo.
example: #jaiku: this is a test
3 months ago by BUGabundo.
Ah, simple enough. But commenting has to be done from the web, right? And are there any Jaiku tutorial pages or screencasts or something? :-)
3 months ago by UncleCJ.
again no... just prefix with @USER. I'm doing it right now, from IMku
3 months ago by BUGabundo.
just ask, and you get answers from the Community
3 months ago by BUGabundo.
one more thing: "@USER" is a race condition and will make you reply to the LAST comment of that user, and not the post you might expect
3 months ago by BUGabundo.
Yeah, exactly what I figured, that's cool. And the last comment that user sent which you saw, or any? I've got to get IMku too...
3 months ago by UncleCJ.
@UncleCJ: the one the user sent.... u might not even be following him, or be in the channel that s/he post to.
3 months ago by BUGabundo.
Wow, that's scary, so if I'm active (which I currently am), your reply can end up more or less anywhere?! :-P
3 months ago by UncleCJ.
yep. that happens to me all the time. If I'm replying to edy (and he is one top poster) many of my replies end on the wrong thread
3 months ago by BUGabundo.
We're keenly aware of that issue. If you guys come up with suggestions for better yet simple ways to address it, do let us know. Thanks!
3 months ago by jyri.
first thing that comes to mind is that every first comment generates a small unique id that identifies a thread. Users can do @uid to post to a thread. This id is also posted with every comment posted to that thread. The ids can be recycled every 3-4 days. But perhaps people have already discussed better ways to address this problem; I had asked for this very thing when I had joined Jaiku few months back.
3 months ago by tabrez.
Site-wide thread IDs recyclable every couple of days? They are gonna grow too big to be usable (4-5 digits). Maybe user+thread ID could work, even though answering to any user/thread ID combination in the same thread would be equivalent
3 months ago by UncleCJ.
One kludgy suggestion for imku (why not for web, too): When the user who is about to reply with @ would send message "hold" (or press equivalent button on web), and send a @ message, the backend would remember the last message of that target that was sent through imku (or visible on the replier's "overview tab") and assume that as the message as a reply target? Without "holding the view" the behaviour would be as it is now.
I am very new jaiku user and do not know the practicalities of the imku and J api or the backend that much. Just my 0.02EUR.
3 months ago by shuopio.
This could be a complement, to make it easy to still reply just to the latest, but frankly being constrained to that is a bit awkward as well, and sometimes I do want to be able to quick-reply to different threads without picking up the web interface. Just my 0.02 EEK :-P
3 months ago by UncleCJ.