of course, that takes effort from me, expended with no idea if it will be justified (what if you ignore my overture?)
That seems like an easy problem. Say “I think it would be <good> to take this discussion private. What do you think? If you agree, I’ll set up a <place>”.
private chat
Now that I think about it, this might be a good idea—switching from a conversation where we exchange multiple paragraphs every few hours into a conversation where we exchange short sentences in real time. Of course, we can’t expect LW to implement that sort of thing when it has dubious value. I wonder if a private chat might be easy to set up elsewhere.
There’s a LW Slack server and an LW Discord server that both can be used. Discord would be preferable if the goal is to leave a permanent record given that this isn’t possible with free Slack accounts.
I wonder if a private chat might be easy to set up elsewhere.
I already have a personal IRC server with a dedicated webchat interface server, so yes, for me, it is very easy. I think that the next time something like this comes up, I will simply link to it.
Of course, we can’t expect LW to implement that sort of thing when it has dubious value.
To be honest, it would be nigh-trivial to do so: simply embed a Freenode webchat widget. It’s literally one line of code.
Do you want to try continuing our utility discussion that way and see if it helps? There may be timezone issues, I’m in europe, I’ll be available about 8 hours from now, for maybe 4 hours in the evening.
I would be willing to try it, certainly. I am on EST, so that time of day is not very convenient for me… but not impossible. I see you wrote this several days ago, so let me know if this offer still stands, and what time would be convenient—though note that I will be out most of the day this weekend, so it would have to be today (Friday), or next week (Monday+).
That seems like an easy problem. Say “I think it would be <good> to take this discussion private. What do you think? If you agree, I’ll set up a <place>”.
Now that I think about it, this might be a good idea—switching from a conversation where we exchange multiple paragraphs every few hours into a conversation where we exchange short sentences in real time. Of course, we can’t expect LW to implement that sort of thing when it has dubious value. I wonder if a private chat might be easy to set up elsewhere.
There’s a LW Slack server and an LW Discord server that both can be used. Discord would be preferable if the goal is to leave a permanent record given that this isn’t possible with free Slack accounts.
Unfortunately, both Discord and Slack are terrible, terrible chat platforms (Slack is tremendously worse, but Discord is also nigh-intolerable).
Of course, not everyone feels this way. But I certainly would never use either platform.
I already have a personal IRC server with a dedicated webchat interface server, so yes, for me, it is very easy. I think that the next time something like this comes up, I will simply link to it.
To be honest, it would be nigh-trivial to do so: simply embed a Freenode webchat widget. It’s literally one line of code.
The KiwiIRC widget is also one line of code. It’s a lot nicer than Freenode’s own webchat system, but it can still be used with Freenode.
Good point! KiwiIRC is pretty solid as these things go.
Do you want to try continuing our utility discussion that way and see if it helps? There may be timezone issues, I’m in europe, I’ll be available about 8 hours from now, for maybe 4 hours in the evening.
My apologies, I only just saw this comment!
I would be willing to try it, certainly. I am on EST, so that time of day is not very convenient for me… but not impossible. I see you wrote this several days ago, so let me know if this offer still stands, and what time would be convenient—though note that I will be out most of the day this weekend, so it would have to be today (Friday), or next week (Monday+).
The place is chat.myfullname.net.
Ok. To clarify the time, (in EST) I should be mostly available from 10AM to 3PM on weekdays and 3AM to 3PM on weekends.
I will be there at noon EST on Monday, then.