I'm unclear on the distinction between "separate conversations in separate communities" -- which it has -- and "threading" -- which it doesn't have yet.
By threading, I mean the ability to reply directly to specific past messages. (Eg, the way I'm responding to you here.) At the moment, CommYou doesn't have that: each conversation is a simple linear thread with no branching, the way many forums and all IM systems have. There are specific reasons why I haven't implemented threading yet (mostly due to UI), but it's in the not-too-distant plans. Indeed, that's going to be one of the radical things I'm planning in the new client: IM-ish realtime conversations with threading, which I don't think I've ever seen before.
I *had* thought that one of the important features was that it tied together FB and LJ (with other tools expected to come on line in the future); did I misunderstand, or is that simply not as important as the features you've stressed in this alpha announcement?
It's intended and important, but not technically simple: I have to do a bunch of rewriting of the FB side to make it internally consistent, and wrestle with some fairly tricky identity-management issues. (This isn't quite uncharted territory, but very few services have yet tried to do identity merging as seriously as I'm planning to.) It's in the plans, but since essentially all of my initial user base seems to not only be on LJ, but prefer that identity to FB, it's wound up a bit further down the priority queue than I'd originally planned.
It's not forgotten, by any means -- you'll see that it's one of the major stories in the Things To Come page. But it's looking like other things (like a better client) are *probably* higher priority than identity merging, so it may be a little while before I get to it.
And mind: both FB and LJ are already working together, in *essentially* the same framework. There are some inconsistencies in how FB currently works, but they're pretty compatible already -- witness the fact that conversations in CommYou Discuss already cross cleanly between the two social networks. What we don't have yet is the ability to say, "I am this person on LJ *and* this person on FB, use the same IM for both, and want to be able to post conversations that span these systems". The internals for that are about half-implemented; I'll finish it and really get it humming when it floats to the top of the stack.
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Date: 2008-11-04 03:55 am (UTC)By threading, I mean the ability to reply directly to specific past messages. (Eg, the way I'm responding to you here.) At the moment, CommYou doesn't have that: each conversation is a simple linear thread with no branching, the way many forums and all IM systems have. There are specific reasons why I haven't implemented threading yet (mostly due to UI), but it's in the not-too-distant plans. Indeed, that's going to be one of the radical things I'm planning in the new client: IM-ish realtime conversations with threading, which I don't think I've ever seen before.
I *had* thought that one of the important features was that it tied together FB and LJ (with other tools expected to come on line in the future); did I misunderstand, or is that simply not as important as the features you've stressed in this alpha announcement?
It's intended and important, but not technically simple: I have to do a bunch of rewriting of the FB side to make it internally consistent, and wrestle with some fairly tricky identity-management issues. (This isn't quite uncharted territory, but very few services have yet tried to do identity merging as seriously as I'm planning to.) It's in the plans, but since essentially all of my initial user base seems to not only be on LJ, but prefer that identity to FB, it's wound up a bit further down the priority queue than I'd originally planned.
It's not forgotten, by any means -- you'll see that it's one of the major stories in the Things To Come page. But it's looking like other things (like a better client) are *probably* higher priority than identity merging, so it may be a little while before I get to it.
And mind: both FB and LJ are already working together, in *essentially* the same framework. There are some inconsistencies in how FB currently works, but they're pretty compatible already -- witness the fact that conversations in CommYou Discuss already cross cleanly between the two social networks. What we don't have yet is the ability to say, "I am this person on LJ *and* this person on FB, use the same IM for both, and want to be able to post conversations that span these systems". The internals for that are about half-implemented; I'll finish it and really get it humming when it floats to the top of the stack.