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It's actually creepy that other contacts can watch you live typing!
by sunseb 7y ago
It's actually creepy that other contacts can watch you live typing!
- forgotmypw 7y agoThis is feature that is/was present in other applications, such as ICQ and talkd.
- cl0ckt0wer 7y agoAnd it's awful. Typing stuff makes me think about it, and I change it constantly. Then you end up having people change thoughts mid sentence when they see what another person has started typing in response to what they haven't even finished yet. It's like having everyone talk at once.
- josephg 7y agoApparently it wasn’t everyone cup of tea but personally I loved it. It makes for a different sort of conversation - more live than the asynchronous back and forth messaging of most apps today. You can often reply to someone while they’re typing their message - and if you guess right they can stop typing and move on to read / reply to your response in turn. I’m not sure how well it works in groups but 1-on-1 it feels more like a phone call than a messaging app; except it’s over text, it seamlessly transitions to offline asynchronous messaging if someone isn’t there and you can both “talk” (type) at the same time.
- Debugreality 7y agoJust make it an option duh!
- elcomet 7y agoBut it was an option wasn't it? You could write in draft mode I think, and people couldn't see the result
- richrichardsson 7y agoWhen I'm annoyed with something I've received on any given platform, I find it cathartic to type out a really sarcastic/vicious response to then just delete it all and reply with something a bit more balanced/respectful. Live updates make that impossible.
- DonHopkins 7y agoITS had :UNTALK (around 1982) https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/41180/AI_WP_235.pdf https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/41180/AI_WP_2... >Another useful comlink program is UNTALK. UNTALK is similar to TALK but does not work across machines. However, on a display terminal, UNTALK splits the screen horizontally and allows the two people to type at the same time on their part of the screen.
- ofrzeta 7y agoAlso in Slack and I find it creepy, too. And I think it's awkward that you can only turn it off on the receiver side.
- yoz-y 7y agoIn Slack you only see that they are typing but not what, or did it change recently? Wave editing was a precursor of the Google docs collaborative editing so you could actually see characters one by one.
- rafaele 7y agoI'd just type elsewhere and paste it in when it's ready if it concerned me.
- SquareWheel 7y agoIt's been years since I've used Wave, but I'm sure it had a setting for that just below the text field.
- totallynotabot 7y agoYou should know commercial chat solutions (for customer support, pre-purchase inquires etc) do this - agents can see what you’ve typed before hitting send.
- dna_polymerase 7y agoI never checked, but I always assumed this. It just makes sense given time is probably the most important factor in those interactions.