On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 11:38:23PM -0400, John Levine wrote: > In article <024001d66664$ebdc3b90$c394b2b0$@olddog.co.uk> you write: > >But where is everybody? The number of people in the application seems to > >range between 20 and 50. > > > >Is the problem that Gather.Town makes you run all sorts of scripts that > >might be a bit icky? Or are we all really just antisocial? > > Gather.town seems to me to be a work in progress. The way it leaves > the camera on even if the window isn't visible is clearly a bug (even > if it was intentional.) They have a configuration knob to enable the behavior you desire, IIUC. (I think it's called the "busy" state, but haven't played around with it much, in favor of manually muting my streams.) > I think it would help to take a tip from jabber and other IM apps and > provide people a way to provide hints about whether they want people > to talk to them, and also particularly if the window isn't visible, > if someone asks to talk, a way to pop up a request to which you can say > yes or various kinds of no's. This would make it a lot less painful to > leave it active while you're doing other stuff. Sure. I've tried some ad hoc ways to indicate my status, and I think others have tried different things. > If we want to make virtual meetings more like real ones, when you > leave a meetecho session it should dump you into the virtual hallway, > not the agenda. Quite so :) -Ben
