Chat Feature
Has anyone used the chat feature lately? We're looking to give it a lick of paint. I've you've got any suggestions we're all ears!
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I have a few comments re chat on this site.
Earlier today had an email telling me “someone wants to chat with you on Tastebuds”, and I was offline when the request was made. When I looked online the only text next to the chat button is "x (the name of the person) praised degumatt's impeccable taste in music. Start Chat." For me that is very impersonal, and it doesn't really make a lot of sense. It reads a bit like a computer database result. How did they 'praise' the music? By clicking a button presumably?
The obvious question to me is, did that person really expect to request a chat? (bearing in mind that the email said someone wants to chat).
I know a lot of ‘people connecting’ sites can be rather forward in their methods of encouraging their members to connect with each other, and I suspect that it might be the case here. I'm still quite new on this website (which I think is a great idea), and have already had a number of question-style messages like "What is you all time favourite video game?" (they are all like that) from people who clearly aren't singling me out personally.
I’ve also had a song sent to me with a slightly odd comment attached to it, by someone who seemed completely surprised to hear from me in return!
It’s all a bit weird.
The (emailed) ‘chat request’ doesn't seem to be hugely intended either, but I suppose it easily could be. So supposing it was a genuine casual prompt to chat (and I do realise that most chat is very casual) - wouldn't quite a lot of people need at-least some kind of credible (ie written) opening line to start talking to someone? Would it hurt to steer people in that direction? It would at least make the message look an authentic chat request, and not something a bit cheeky advanced by the website.
Basically I think this site needs to do more to make sure things on it are either genuine or come across as genuine. For me that would include rethinking any cliched lines that may be pre-written for people, and having a bit more of a straight-shooting approach to chat elements in general. There must be some way to keep it realistic and still make it ‘fun’ surely? Some of these oft-seen website features can be very ambiguous, pretty patronising really and ultimately hard to take seriously - especially by people who haven't grown up with the nannying/speculative/pushing approach taken by a lot of the web today. This website is a really good idea, you should try and be different instead of ever just following suite.
@moonlander: Merci.
@Alex: If you want to make chat a bigger part of the Tastebuds experience, the ability to turn chat invitations on and off needs to be accessible from our profiles.
Just like with the forums/Soapbox, Tastebuds seems to struggle with deciding what it's all about (e.g. matching tastes? Private conversations? Public conversations?) and how to make this clear and accessible to its users.
settings - > privacy -> enable chat = NO
Because I sometimes feel that by ignoring a chat request, I'm being rude, so I'd prefer not to receive any in the first place.
Can we switch our ability to be invited to chat on and off?
Because I sometimes feel that by ignoring a chat request, I'm being rude, so I'd prefer not to receive any in the first place.
I've used it quite a bit, and when it's working it's fine, but it's a bit temperamental! Sometimes it shows the person who you are trying to chat to as 'offline' when they are online, sometimes the other way round. And the feature seems to work with some members but not with others.....several times I have ended up having to chat to someone via ordinary messages because we couldn't get the chat feature to work properly. Even when it is working, not all messages seem to go through, and it's very slow.
If you could make it a bit more reliable, that would be good!
Also a lot of people on here don't seem to realise that the chat feature even exists! A few have been surprised when I've suggested it. Maybe you could give it a bit more publicity?
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