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What you are lamenting the lack of is the 'presence' indicator, where you can set yourself Available, Away, Busy, or simply Offline. Of the current crop of IM c
by Jaruzel 9y ago
What you are lamenting the lack of is the 'presence' indicator, where you can set yourself Available, Away, Busy, or simply Offline. Of the current crop of IM clients, only Skype still has it (I think).
Of the older IM clients; Lync had it, so did Lotus Sametime, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, and of course AIM.
Somewhere along the line the presence feature got dropped, and now we're always 'Available' even when we're not.
- philsnow 9y agoThis completely supports the idea that when you use a free service, you are not the customer. Away/busy messages and invisibility are comforts for users. They go away when execs see that doing so bumps some (probably bullshit anyway) "engagement" metric by 5%.
- sfotm 9y agoDiscord has presence indicators and is fairly widespread.
- marindez 9y ago>Somewhere along the line the presence feature got dropped, and now we're always 'Available' even when we're not. Before you were only available when you had your PC on, you were connected to the Internet, and your IM program was open. Now you carry your perpetually running IM program in your perpetually on and perpetually connected mobile in your pocket.
- visarga 9y agoIn other words, better is worse, New Jersey style.
- snarkyturtle 9y agoSlack has an 'online indicator' and even AIM-style away messages.
- daturkel 9y agoBut slack also has no inherently established paradigm of real time vs asynchronous communication.