Management Matt Posted November 21 Management Posted November 21 On 11/16/2024 at 12:36 AM, WebCMS said: Chat is chat and does have its uses and value. Otherwise, Teams, Zoom, WebEx and other conference apps won't be having chat modules built-in. Those conferencing tools are exactly why we built Live Topics. You are not talking about an open ended chat box, but rather a focused time-limited reason for people to be online at the same time ready and willing to participate. 1 hour ago, Day_ said: Now it’s gone, we have reverted to an old fashioned topic, refreshing the page. Invision Community 5 (Cloud) has realtime features for showing replies and reactions making it closer to chat than a topic. It wouldn't take too much imagination to theme a forum to look more streamlined and leverage the real time features to provide more of a chat-like experience. WebCMS 1
WebCMS Posted November 23 Author Posted November 23 (edited) On 11/21/2024 at 7:07 AM, Matt said: Invision Community 5 (Cloud) has realtime features for showing replies and reactions making it closer to chat than a topic. It wouldn't take too much imagination to theme a forum to look more streamlined and leverage the real time features to provide more of a chat-like experience. Wasn't aware of this new feature in v5 which is graceful without having to refresh the page 👍 Edited November 23 by WebCMS SC36DC 1
Shawn RR Posted December 3 Posted December 3 On 11/15/2024 at 6:18 PM, Matt said: However, Live Chat can drain away content from your forum and make what could be useful rich topics for future people (and Google/SEO) to enjoy more vapid and disposable. I can align with this statement and sentiment. I cannot afford the live topics and have yet to really see it live in the same way that a live chat would but I also see the use case from site to site differ and niche communities find value in live chats. Of course with v5 my understanding is that one can be added as a custom block/application anyway so the feedback is really a call to action for a developer to meet this demand. Why I am responding at all to the thread though is if you Matt can share who the audience is for Invision and maybe if you personally know a few sites we can see live topics actively being used. I don't even really see them here but I know the use-case may not be befitting to this forum.
Gary Posted December 3 Posted December 3 Hi @Shawn RR, Whilst it may not be a live or working demo, have you read through the Live Topics announcements?
Shawn RR Posted December 11 Posted December 11 On 12/4/2024 at 7:24 AM, Gary said: Hi @Shawn RR, Whilst it may not be a live or working demo, have you read through the Live Topics announcements? I haven't read through this no, it is insightful but the actual application of it is still yet to be seen; on paper and concept it can work but I would want to see it live. I could see in online coaching, support product forums and maybe a few gaming communities but a proof of concept would really help as a selling point compared to the defunct chat module. Again, I think IM and most of the "wants" here though is better fulfilled in 3rd party solutions than by Invision itself. I personally wouldn't hold you guys on the hook for this and look forward to other ways people can connect to the site.
Marc Posted December 11 Posted December 11 26 minutes ago, Shawn RR said: I haven't read through this no, it is insightful but the actual application of it is still yet to be seen; on paper and concept it can work but I would want to see it live. We have actually used this ourselves a few times here on our own site 🙂 Gary 1
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