Hey guys, I am loving the latest improvements of speed and I was pleased to see YooTheme fixes in todays release of ES.
As you guys know, I created a very popular Voice entry about adding a chat feature. I notice that despite the veery high demand, you guys seem to have chosen getting TechJoomla to do a chat integration with Jbolo instead. While I look forward to seeing what they do in terms of merging chat and conversations, and offering hosted in the future... I am still very concerned. As a subscriber of some of their products, I gotta say they are not nearly as refined as Stackideas products. I am aware that they are trying to improve things, and I am veery excited about the EasySocial Mobile app they are developing, I will most likely be buying the version I can add my own logo and branding to.
Anyhow, I am getting besides the point.... as I am realizing that you guys aren't going to be adding a chat feature, at least not anytime soon. I was hoping you would consider revamping the conversations feature.
On my beta site, the few registered users are using conversations a lot! More so than any other site feature. Even on mobile they are using it a lot.... now I was hoping to see a few changes to make it a much better experience... here are my suggestions:
1. Make it fully ajax based and make replies instant, as if it were a chat.
2. Include a: [name] is typing... message in the bottom of the screen
3. Include a: [name] has read your message.
4. Make it so e-mails only send if the receiver of a message is offline. No point in sending a bunch of e-mails for an ongoing conversation. This isn't e-mail where you take forever to reply, this is CONVERSATIONS messages go back and forth on a much faster rate and spamming e-mail on every message is pointless.
As you guys know, I created a very popular Voice entry about adding a chat feature. I notice that despite the veery high demand, you guys seem to have chosen getting TechJoomla to do a chat integration with Jbolo instead. While I look forward to seeing what they do in terms of merging chat and conversations, and offering hosted in the future... I am still very concerned. As a subscriber of some of their products, I gotta say they are not nearly as refined as Stackideas products. I am aware that they are trying to improve things, and I am veery excited about the EasySocial Mobile app they are developing, I will most likely be buying the version I can add my own logo and branding to.
Anyhow, I am getting besides the point.... as I am realizing that you guys aren't going to be adding a chat feature, at least not anytime soon. I was hoping you would consider revamping the conversations feature.
On my beta site, the few registered users are using conversations a lot! More so than any other site feature. Even on mobile they are using it a lot.... now I was hoping to see a few changes to make it a much better experience... here are my suggestions:
1. Make it fully ajax based and make replies instant, as if it were a chat.
2. Include a: [name] is typing... message in the bottom of the screen
3. Include a: [name] has read your message.
4. Make it so e-mails only send if the receiver of a message is offline. No point in sending a bunch of e-mails for an ongoing conversation. This isn't e-mail where you take forever to reply, this is CONVERSATIONS messages go back and forth on a much faster rate and spamming e-mail on every message is pointless.