#realtimechat — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #realtimechat, aggregated by home.social.
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Speaking of WebRTC gets me thinking about the UX of online conferencing apps.
There's no expectations in a normal video conference to have your mic on all the time, so why is it seen as odd not to either have your camera on all the time, or off all the time. Why doesn't it feel natural (for me anyway) to toggle it on and off when you want to say something, as it does with muting and unmuting the mic?
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Speaking of WebRTC gets me thinking about the UX of online conferencing apps.
There's no expectations in a normal video conference to have your mic on all the time, so why is it seen as odd not to either have your camera on all the time, or off all the time. Why doesn't it feel natural (for me anyway) to toggle it on and off when you want to say something, as it does with muting and unmuting the mic?
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#digitalmemory: "We used to have #forums. And forums had one massive advantage: you could find things.
Search actually worked because the content was structured for retrieval. If someone asked a question that had been answered before, you could link them to it…
Then Slack happened, Discord, Teams, and we all decided that #realtimechat was simply better: More like how humans “naturally communicate” (as if there’s anything natural about the internet itself.)"
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/11/the-death-of-community-memory/ -
#digitalmemory: "We used to have #forums. And forums had one massive advantage: you could find things.
Search actually worked because the content was structured for retrieval. If someone asked a question that had been answered before, you could link them to it…
Then Slack happened, Discord, Teams, and we all decided that #realtimechat was simply better: More like how humans “naturally communicate” (as if there’s anything natural about the internet itself.)"
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/11/the-death-of-community-memory/