[sldev] Group IMs

[Bane Darrow]

Jonathan,

Thank you. That's kind of how I thought it worked. if I close the tab and
re-open it to speak, I can occasionally see that it goes to everyone, but
not always. So in essence, there is currently no reliable method to
communicate with all online members of a group. Is this a bug or an issue?
Should I add it to JIRA?

I can understand this behaviour in a lot of the groups, but some groups are
much more controlled and I would expect the communication to be reliable.


On 3/12/07, Jonathan Wolk <jwolk at lindenlab.com> wrote:
>
> Bane,
>    Short version:
>    Closing tab means "I don't care for this given conversation"
>
>    Long version:
>    I can shed a little bit of light on this......the current behavior
> on agni (which may be buggy but I think it's sort of grown organically
> to be this way) is that you can think of each time you have a group IM
> it is a "conversation".
>    If you are starting a new conversation with the group (no one else
> in the group is already in a group IM) then every group member (who is
> online)  receives the message and every group member is "in the
> conversation" so to speak.
>    When someone closes their group IM tab, they leave the conversation
> and no longer receive any group IMs for this given conversation
> instance.  If you try to start a new group IM and one is already active,
> you are added to the session although you may be under the false
> assumption that then EVERY group member is in it.  So yeah closing the
> tab stops most (not all*) communication.
>    I hope this helps.
>
> -Jonathan
>
> *They will receive messages again once everyone has left the previous
> conversation and all the online group members are looked up again.
>
> Bane Darrow wrote:
>
> > Is there a resource or information on how Group IMs are supposed to
> > work? When I send an IM to a group, not everyone gets it. Seems to be
> > if you close a group IM tab, you don't get IMs in the group anymore
> > for a while. I think this makes sense in general, but for a business
> > group, if I need to get an IM to all my staff, and they've closed the
> > tab, they don't hear me now. I could send a notice, but the point of
> > IMing is to talk to the online people, not the whole staff and leaving
> > them emails.
> >
> > Am I understanding how it works correctly? Is there a way to make my
> > IMs go through if you've closed the tab? What are the mechanics of
> > when they are blocked or not? Is it simply buggy? Should there be an
> > intermediate form of communication between permanent notices and group
> > IMs? I think a lot of people think closing a tab doesn't stop all new
> > communication.
> >
> > Bane Darrow
>
>
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