braid-chat

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kevnk 2016-05-18T19:41:16.000012Z

@rafd: I’m very intererested in braid. Looks like you guys have done a good amount of work! I have a use case that I’m curious if braid would solve...

kevnk 2016-05-18T19:42:56.000013Z

I’m sure you’ve experienced it before - you’re in a channel/chat room/tagged convo, and are talking with someone about topic A and then someone (even you) needs to also talk about topic B but both are valid to happen within the same channel/room/convo.

kevnk 2016-05-18T19:50:54.000014Z

So… one idea is to create some sort of branching functionality (like in a git repo) within a conversation

kevnk 2016-05-18T19:52:34.000015Z

I guess within braid though, it could start a new tag (maybe temporary and maybe shares access with the parent/HEAD tag) and people could optionally subscribe/unsubscribe to that sub-tag

kevnk 2016-05-18T19:53:08.000016Z

Then after the conversation is resolved, it could be merged back into the parent tag/convo

kevnk 2016-05-18T19:54:21.000017Z

anyways - I’ve come up against this chat "problem" so many times, and branching these "side conversations" seemed like a solution that most people (developers at least) would understand

rafd 2016-05-18T20:15:31.000019Z

hey @kevnk welcome!

kevnk 2016-05-18T20:15:41.000020Z

thanks!

rafd 2016-05-18T20:15:49.000021Z

would having multiple conversations with the same tag work for your sitaution?

kevnk 2016-05-18T20:16:13.000022Z

definitely

kevnk 2016-05-18T20:16:44.000023Z

so you could mute specific conversations - which would be different than unsubscribing to a tag?

kevnk 2016-05-18T20:17:15.000024Z

i was missing that concept from the video - that each conversation is a new instance in which you can interact with

rafd 2016-05-18T20:17:26.000025Z

yes, muting is on the TODO list, we haven't needed it for compan

rafd 2016-05-18T20:17:32.000026Z

yes, each conversation is a new instance

rafd 2016-05-18T20:17:36.000027Z

i need to update the video 😛

kevnk 2016-05-18T20:17:38.000028Z

it just looked like a new UI for a chat room

rafd 2016-05-18T20:17:46.000030Z

things look a lot different since then

rafd 2016-05-18T20:18:47.000032Z

would you like an invite to the live instance we have running?

kevnk 2016-05-18T20:19:00.000033Z

oh sure - that’d be sweet!

rafd 2016-05-18T20:19:42.000034Z

sent one to your gmail

kevnk 2016-05-18T20:21:42.000035Z

i’m in