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It looks like things would get hectic and cluttered pretty quick, is the UX designed to use side-scrolling to move between open conversations? The design seems

It looks like things would get hectic and cluttered pretty quick, is the UX designed to use side-scrolling to move between open conversations? The design seems to think that'll you'll be closing chats to keep things uncluttered, but the chat just pops back up if someone else sends a message to it, so I imagine this would turn communication into a game of whack-a-mole and I'd guess that it would (d)evolve into a few relevant persistent conversations pretty quickly. Honestly it reminds me of GChat in the GMail client, except I don't get to see my emails while chatting and conversations are cluttered with random hashtags.

insomniacity 7y ago
> but the chat just pops back up if someone else sends a message to it, so I imagine this would turn communication into a game of whack-a-mole My first thought exactly. Speaking from experience on our current chat platform, after one conversation on a topic ends (assuming it does definitively end, and doesn't overlap with other conversations), its not long before another begins.
throwaway55554 7y ago
I think all these chat apps fail at UI. I think we need a chat app that uses a mind map UI. As the conversations progress each thread forks off to create a new node. When messages come in the appropriate node indicates there's a new message. You click the node and a message box pops up to interact with then disappears when you're done. It would be easy to recall items you want to find in the conversation because you'd just look at the nodes.
rafd 7y ago
The UI is based on side-scrolling, which works best with trackpad, but, I use a mouse and it works okay. In practise, I tend to go through conversations 1-by-1 and either reply and close them, close them without reply, or star them and close them (for review later). Re: whack-a-mole, you control which tags you're subscribed to and you can mute message threads you're not interested in, similar to how you can mute channels in Slack.

insomniacity 7y ago

> but the chat just pops back up if someone else sends a message to it, so I imagine this would turn communication into a game of whack-a-mole My first thought exactly. Speaking from experience on our current chat platform, after one conversation on a topic ends (assuming it does definitively end, and doesn't overlap with other conversations), its not long before another begins.

throwaway55554 7y ago

I think all these chat apps fail at UI. I think we need a chat app that uses a mind map UI. As the conversations progress each thread forks off to create a new node. When messages come in the appropriate node indicates there's a new message. You click the node and a message box pops up to interact with then disappears when you're done. It would be easy to recall items you want to find in the conversation because you'd just look at the nodes.

rafd 7y ago

The UI is based on side-scrolling, which works best with trackpad, but, I use a mouse and it works okay. In practise, I tend to go through conversations 1-by-1 and either reply and close them, close them without reply, or star them and close them (for review later). Re: whack-a-mole, you control which tags you're subscribed to and you can mute message threads you're not interested in, similar to how you can mute channels in Slack.