2015/Cambridge/messaging

Indie Messaging Indiewebcamp 2015 Cambridge

Participants

• Ben Roberts
• David Shanske
• Barry Frost
• Randall
• Tantek Çelik
• Amy Guy
• Ben (bigbluehat)
• Dustin
• ...
• Tim Owens
• Chris

Notes

Ben Roberts is aggregating IRC back onto his own site as a start

direct messag to ben_thawr on IRC logs to my site

Firefox Hello and other systems already exist to handle direct video in the browser but not really for texting

/contact pages could contain a form to send a message directly to the person on whatever method they prefer at that moment

indication of when messages have been received: BBM - the original "better than SMS"

• showed sent/received/read status of every message sent

E.g. Facebook messenger shows various message sending/sent/received states

• sending to server: spinning ?
• failed to reach server: red exclamation point
• server received: small empty circle
• device received: small empty circle with a dot inside - receiver's device has the message
• has been read: small circle replaced completely by small disc of receiver's icon

iMessage / Messages

• sending to server. progress bar
• failed to reach server: red exclamation point
• device received. "Delivered"
• has been read: "Read" (can be disabled by receiver)

AIM (oscar protocol)

• showed when a user was typing if they had this option set
• pidgin (libpurple) plugin for "Psychic mode" showed when a message box was opened to you before even receiving a message