Clojurians Log v2

I personally wouldn't like to see the community split between any more services

Perhaps it would do good to conduct a survey to see where the majority vote lies at

Braid would probably continue regardless of whether clojurians are going to adopt it

Correct, Braid is happening regardless.

I agree, I don’t think we should split if possible.

@meow: Any idea when Braid might become usable for Clojurians?

@cfleming: currently it's somewhat functional, but definitely lacks the polish for mass adoption

@meow is proposing a talk at clojurewest on braid, hopefully to onboard more people to help with development/testing

@jethroksy: Right, I’ve used it a bit, it’s definitely a long way from a Slack replacement.

my main concern is getting people used to the braid style of chat

I agree

in order for it to be successful everyone must be familiar with it, if not chaos would ensue

I don’t see it being workable for something this size, at least right now.

I know they’re aware of the issue and are trying to come up with something.

But it seems better for a small team right now, not 500 people in a single room

they've become too used to the braid system, and need more people to provide feedback on "first-use" experience

then comes the problem of terminology...

I don't think there are "rooms" in braid

There aren’t, so we have 4800 people in one room :simple_smile:

isn't that the same thing as in Slack?

perhaps they'd all be subscribed to the general tag

but otherwise they'll receive only what they want to

Well, I guess there are 4800 people in #general, but.. right

I welcome the inbox idea

feels like Mailbox for gmail, which I enjoyed for a while

but this is dependent on people not necroing old threads

either the control logic in the app has to be complex enough to handle all these cases, or the users have to be intelligent enough to know how braid works

re: necroing in Braid, there will be UI to indicate old threads and to warn user that they are necroing

re: # of people... there's only ever 3-5 people actively participating in a room at any given time (many lurkers)... I image more would actively participate in Braid b/c conversations are less time-sensitive than here

re: "the Braid model" being different... I am willing to add a more traditional-looking mode that could be the default... (with a single level of threading, so it would look similar to Facebook comments)

Braid Alpha will be released on April 15.