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I don’t mind this behaviour. It can be difficult to coordinate when you don’t know whether the other person is done yet or not. Back in the old days we used to,

I don’t mind this behaviour. It can be difficult to coordinate when you don’t know whether the other person is done yet or not. Back in the old days we used to, as the end of the article says, send lots of little bits of text to deal with this (to older/less internet-savvy people’s great annoyance, as they treated chat just like email, and would be furious when their wall of text was responded to with half a sentence!) but it made the chat very disjointed and you’d end up having to deal with multiple simultaneous stands of conversation. Anyway, the real problem is people who ask “what were you typing?” when you delete your message or take a long time. You don’t want to know! I’ve never used a ‘live’ chat like he describes but I really like the idea. Is there anything modern that provides that?

throwaway287391 6y ago
> Anyway, the real problem is people who ask “what were you typing?” when you delete your message. That seems so rude to me! I've never actually had this happen to me, but I nonetheless fear it will 100% of the time I start typing something and then delete it. In any IM application that has a typing indicator (especially Slack at work -- I shudder at the thought of typing out a long message in #general), I've taken to drafting messages that require any non-trivial degree of thought to type in a separate box, e.g. a message to myself, and then copy-pasting it into the actual chat.
- silveroriole 6y ago
  Sorry for sniping your reply with an edit. Part of why I don’t like people asking what I was typing - I’m a compulsive redrafter of posts!
- kqr 6y ago
  Here's what I do: I disable the typing notification locally whenever possible (for example in Slack). Since I'm never reminded of its existence, I honestly had completely forgotten it existed. Makes things much easier. Sure, other people still see that I type stuff, but this in and of itself is rarely the problem for me. My problem is my anxiety around knowing they get a notification when I'm typing. That goes away when I don't see that others are typing.

throwaway287391 6y ago

> Anyway, the real problem is people who ask “what were you typing?” when you delete your message. That seems so rude to me! I've never actually had this happen to me, but I nonetheless fear it will 100% of the time I start typing something and then delete it. In any IM application that has a typing indicator (especially Slack at work -- I shudder at the thought of typing out a long message in #general), I've taken to drafting messages that require any non-trivial degree of thought to type in a separate box, e.g. a message to myself, and then copy-pasting it into the actual chat.

silveroriole 6y ago
Sorry for sniping your reply with an edit. Part of why I don’t like people asking what I was typing - I’m a compulsive redrafter of posts!
kqr 6y ago
Here's what I do: I disable the typing notification locally whenever possible (for example in Slack). Since I'm never reminded of its existence, I honestly had completely forgotten it existed. Makes things much easier. Sure, other people still see that I type stuff, but this in and of itself is rarely the problem for me. My problem is my anxiety around knowing they get a notification when I'm typing. That goes away when I don't see that others are typing.