I think DEV's chat feature is super cool, but I'm coming up on my two-year badge in a few weeks and I've still got enough fingers for each conversation I've had. I get the sense that some people communicate this way more often, but I'm curious to get an overall temperature!
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Hi Ben L.,
I had no idea there was a chat feature on Dev. Only thing I knew of was being able to message someone.
never knew about it ! never used it !
Agreed, I don't use it. Not sure what to talk about. But I do want friends and pen palls.
Additional additional: Dev Connect hasn't had any activity on it since last November according to my PC... but I remember there was a period where everything I typed appeared for me but nobody else (the perils of javascript!).
So who knows, it might be enbroeked.
I never initiate these, but I have received more than one, in the form of help requests.
Can't say I've ever felt the need to use it. I'd love to set up some sort of group chat for people who have a goal of posting every week though!
I'm afraid the idea of "chatting with only those whom you mutually follow" is very prohibitive.
Chatting and following is quite orthogonal so it won't occur to me to wait for mutual following if I just want to send to person some private notes about some comment (e.g. name of the company discussed etc).
So unless there is feature like "send request for chat" to user whom you are not following (mutually!) - the thing is still-born.
There are general channels, and if your profile is set up that way (Settings -> Misc -> Connect) then you can get messages from anyone.
I use it for saying things to people in general if it's not worth making a post.
I'm in two minds about it. One one hand, cool, it encourages socialisation more than a DM system like Twitter or Quora or such - on those places I feel like they're intrusive ways of talking to people, but a general channel is a great way to make friends.
On the other hand, it's never going to replace any of the 9000+ other chat systems people already use, and (as these comments demonstrate) people aren't going to use it.
If it was linked to IRC, say, or Slack by a bot so you could use the chat on the website or through your regular client, that'd be better.
If there were more signposts or certain things (like, say, mini AMA sessions) were held on chat, that might drive people there.
I'm sure there used to be some kind of "event" or "session" feature here for things like livestreams, which could have their chat linked to a chat channel too.
i seen that but i didn't chat with anyone... over here.. because i doesn't have any topics to do that.
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if your find any topics to discuss with me just do it please. atleast i can use that features through it. 😂
The notifications system seems to be still under development so haven't been using it that much. Hope it becomes more developed and widely used in the future though.
Damn.. the option is so close to writing a post and I never tried. Glad I read your post. :P
A couple of times, I just noticed it maybe 3-4 weeks ago??
Does the person have to follow you or vice-versa?
Yes, but it will work anyway if the user has a Open Connect (See Miscellaneous Settings)
I use it occasionally, but I think awareness of it is pretty low.
I had no one to talk with :(
I am here bro 🤗
Oh yes
But that, like, requires socializing