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If you're stuck using Slack and don't like their behavior of sharing typing status, I made a browser extension years ago that blocks that: https://chrome.google

by atto 4y ago

If you're stuck using Slack and don't like their behavior of sharing typing status, I made a browser extension years ago that blocks that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/slack-hide-typing/oeedcdnohdcpcadbjakljhnmdlhcgnch https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/slack-hide-typing/...

kazinator 4y ago
Have you ever used the BSD ntalk program? You can see every keystroke of the other party, in the opposite split of the screen. It's awesome: people complete each other's sentences, or stop typing when the other person is saying the same obvious thing. You can say " , ... what's that word again ...?" and the other person will help, then you can backspace over that and continue your sentence. I've not ntalked in probably over 25 years. Sheesh!
- grokblah 4y ago
  I miss chatting with that! It was so interactive. I wonder if it could be translated to communication between more than two parties. It sure would be interesting to see a prototype of something like that.
  - kazinator 4y ago
    That's Ytalk; also ancient, and uses the same protocol. https://linux.die.net/man/1/ytalk https://linux.die.net/man/1/ytalk I seem to recall seeing people use that around the undergraduate CS lab. I should have mentioned that what was new (to me) when I was introduced to talk/ntalk was the concurrency of the split screen: both parties just clacking away at the same time As a user of dial-up BBSes, I had often chatted 1:1 with sysops, nor as a sysop with users. The BBS sysop chat implementations were different/simpler; both parties were typing into the same space. This required manners: taking turns, letting the other people finish their sentence. That's the same like a Windows user being remotely assisted today: you and the remote admin can both move the mouse cursor or type into the same edit boxes.
Wowfunhappy 4y ago
Weird question—is there a good way for me to test that the extension is working? Since it should only affect what other people see...

by atto 4y ago

kazinator 4y ago

Have you ever used the BSD ntalk program? You can see every keystroke of the other party, in the opposite split of the screen. It's awesome: people complete each other's sentences, or stop typing when the other person is saying the same obvious thing. You can say " , ... what's that word again ...?" and the other person will help, then you can backspace over that and continue your sentence. I've not ntalked in probably over 25 years. Sheesh!

grokblah 4y ago
I miss chatting with that! It was so interactive. I wonder if it could be translated to communication between more than two parties. It sure would be interesting to see a prototype of something like that.
- kazinator 4y ago
  That's Ytalk; also ancient, and uses the same protocol. https://linux.die.net/man/1/ytalk https://linux.die.net/man/1/ytalk I seem to recall seeing people use that around the undergraduate CS lab. I should have mentioned that what was new (to me) when I was introduced to talk/ntalk was the concurrency of the split screen: both parties just clacking away at the same time As a user of dial-up BBSes, I had often chatted 1:1 with sysops, nor as a sysop with users. The BBS sysop chat implementations were different/simpler; both parties were typing into the same space. This required manners: taking turns, letting the other people finish their sentence. That's the same like a Windows user being remotely assisted today: you and the remote admin can both move the mouse cursor or type into the same edit boxes.

Wowfunhappy 4y ago

Weird question—is there a good way for me to test that the extension is working? Since it should only affect what other people see...