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While I applaud the technical implementation, as someone who needs to e to compose their thoughts and often drafts in the input box of chat apps, with the final

While I applaud the technical implementation, as someone who needs to e to compose their thoughts and often drafts in the input box of chat apps, with the final messages usually winding up shorter.... That's a fucking terrifying feature.

moritonal 5y ago
So I'm the complete same, but have you ever thought about how that might impact the way you communicate? I've found I've got worse at talking (verbally) compared to typing, because of how many cruxes I'd started relying on over the pandemic (along with other reasons of course).
ziml77 5y ago
Same here. This sounds far worse than just the normal typing notification. If I was using an application that did this preview, I would type up messages in a text editor and paste them in. There's so many times where I have a massive block of text that I'm not satisfied with as communicating my thoughts properly and I don't want to expand it out to an essay (no one will read that in a chat application), so I just delete it and replace it with an acknowledgement of the message I'm responding to. That would look ridiculous to other people in the chat!
- moritonal 5y ago
  For what it's worth, it sounds like a pretty useful signal to others in the chat to know you have a lot to say on the matter, but have actively chosen to say little. The ledger would show a simple message, but ephemerally you and your colleagues would have gotten to know each other slightly more than the otherwise dead-air. I also had a limit over 52 chars with elipses to stop walls of text.
- wizzwizz4 5y ago
  I'm of the view that pretty much everybody does this.
epalm 5y ago
I endlessly revise outgoing messages, often rearranging parts of my sentences to ensure what I'm saying is clear (enough). After mistakenly hitting Send enough times, especially when there's an apostrophe in the text, if the message is at all important or complex enough, I drop into a text editor first, then paste and send. This also skips the "X is typing" problems you describe. I wonder how many other people do this.

moritonal 5y ago

So I'm the complete same, but have you ever thought about how that might impact the way you communicate? I've found I've got worse at talking (verbally) compared to typing, because of how many cruxes I'd started relying on over the pandemic (along with other reasons of course).

ziml77 5y ago

Same here. This sounds far worse than just the normal typing notification. If I was using an application that did this preview, I would type up messages in a text editor and paste them in. There's so many times where I have a massive block of text that I'm not satisfied with as communicating my thoughts properly and I don't want to expand it out to an essay (no one will read that in a chat application), so I just delete it and replace it with an acknowledgement of the message I'm responding to. That would look ridiculous to other people in the chat!

moritonal 5y ago
For what it's worth, it sounds like a pretty useful signal to others in the chat to know you have a lot to say on the matter, but have actively chosen to say little. The ledger would show a simple message, but ephemerally you and your colleagues would have gotten to know each other slightly more than the otherwise dead-air. I also had a limit over 52 chars with elipses to stop walls of text.
wizzwizz4 5y ago
I'm of the view that pretty much everybody does this.

epalm 5y ago

I endlessly revise outgoing messages, often rearranging parts of my sentences to ensure what I'm saying is clear (enough). After mistakenly hitting Send enough times, especially when there's an apostrophe in the text, if the message is at all important or complex enough, I drop into a text editor first, then paste and send. This also skips the "X is typing" problems you describe. I wonder how many other people do this.