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Name For Submitting Content -- Start A Conversation??
Surely this will fall on deaf ears/or the majority doesn't feel this way, but I'm really (really) not a fan of the change to how we submit content. I was completely lost as to how I could submit some new content to my community for like... several minutes before I found the start a conversation button and realized it was the blanket control for submitting links, text, media etc--- it's completely counterintuitive. That button doesn't make me think that's what I click on to submit content, the first place MY mind goes is maybe a hot link to an imzy forum to discuss the post on... or something.. but it's not evident that you send your links/text/pics etc with that button.
So, I'm sure it was a choice by your UI/UX folks, but personally I really dislike the choice to do this and I hope that A) you'll reconsider and B) I'm not the lone jerk who was pissed off when the button was changed.
ALSO, I talked about this last year when I was invited to imzy; real time chat. OK, so you've implemented a live chat function, cool.... but where's the persistence! I'm an old fogey (mid 30's) and I need muh IRC! Please, please, please allow/create an Imzy IRC channel, or better yet, spin up an ircd! Link communities to #rooms and allow those of us who prefer real time conversation to get together and chat without being bound to Imzy's website. Dress up a current web irc applet or write your own, let the advanced users fire up irssi and join the party. I'd be glad to help run the thing, I'm a sysadmin and have little to do at work :) Anything to get a persistent, real time chat that isn't just tied into each story that's posted.
Ok, done ranting, still love you guys, but there's my feedback.




Nope! You're not a lone jerk I promise!
We're totally changing the post creation process very soon and I hope you like the new version better.
Regarding the IRC thing... as a previous IRCop, I totally get your love for irssi, but I'm not so sure about that part. We'll talk more about chat options internally though. I totally get where you're coming from with regard to the more persistent feel of things. :)
I don't know that it needs to be IRC specifically, but I would really prefer a single community built-in chat over chat posts. I'm doing my best to make chat posts work, but the problem is that then you can't do anything with the rest of the site unless you open just that post in a new tab. There's no good way to follow a channel or even multiple channels, this way.
A persistent chat would mean I could maybe get all my friends to leave GroupMe. I mean, all that offers is: a channel, gifs/twitter/link translation on screen, PM, and nick completion. The service you use to scrape links isn't as good as theirs, but it's close. Maybe it'll get closer. But it would be nice to tie that to, say, /cranky_old_fangirls and consolidate.
Also chat posts don't currently behave well on the android app, I find I can't scroll back more than a few messages which makes joining live chats while away from my PC completely unfeasible unlike a lot of chat programmes such as Skype, Discord etc
I want to agree that you are not a lone jerk, and to be perfectly frank, that change all but killed my participation. There are those who would take that as a good thing, I am quite sure.
In a sort of related topic (not to derail), let's say I created a new profile just for one community, but that community kinda died off, or I just don't want to be there any more. That community (let's call it ABC123) is the only community I use that profile (again, let's call it ABC123). After I leave that community, how do I delete that now-unneeded profile?
Thanks for this post. I came to this forum specifically hoping someone had broached the topic of the new way to submit content. Why was this changed? It was fine before. I find this new version harder to use, and I actually just submitted something in "News" and now it's not showing up, so I'm thinking maybe I did something wrong. :(