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Do you think bubbles showing when someone is AFK or someone is typing into the chat are useful?

Totally useless
2 (9.5%)
Useful
13 (61.9%)
Only the AFK one is useful
3 (14.3%)
Only the one for typing activity is useful
1 (4.8%)
I don't care
0 (0%)
I think it can't be developed for technical reasons.
2 (9.5%)

Total Members Voted: 20

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Eonwind

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Re: Bubbles showing typing activity and AFK
« Reply #15 on: October 23, 2014, 04:16:28 am »
This is an idea I like. The exact implementation can be discussed but my personal opinion is the overall idea is good.
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tman

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Re: Bubbles showing typing activity and AFK
« Reply #16 on: October 23, 2014, 05:21:20 am »
I think it's a great idea.  The little bubble may break immersion, but it seems less immersion breaking than awkward situations arising from two people talking at once, or out of order.

My advice would be:
  • Allow players to turn off seeing the icons (for people who think it'll break their immersion too much)
  • Perhaps allow players to turn off allowing others to see when they are typing
  • Only show the typing symbol when the person is typing in main tab
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Jawir

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Re: Bubbles showing typing activity and AFK
« Reply #17 on: October 24, 2014, 02:14:35 pm »
Ok, since this idea seems quite well accepted I'm going to post a feature request on flyspray.
Thanks a lot to everyone for sharing your opinion!  :) :) :)

This is the link to the flyspray feature request:
http://hydlaaplaza.com/flyspray/index.php?do=details&task_id=6663
« Last Edit: October 24, 2014, 02:27:24 pm by Jawir »
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Re: Bubbles showing typing activity and AFK
« Reply #18 on: October 24, 2014, 05:45:13 pm »
Got my vote. :thumbup:
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Re: Bubbles showing typing activity and AFK
« Reply #19 on: October 25, 2014, 03:50:46 am »
Ok, I change my "no! no!" vote because of tman's mods.  Anyway sounds like a null point now since the request has been made, cheers Jawir :)
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Re: Bubbles showing typing activity and AFK
« Reply #20 on: October 25, 2014, 06:51:57 am »
Don't desperate Pierre, first of all none of the devs told they will surely implement it, secondly I put a link to this thread so they can read all of your ideas/opinions/suggestions!  ;)
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