On 26 June 2011 12:10, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. <eva...@dreskin.net> wrote: > > On Jun 26, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Peter Hosey wrote: > >> On Jun 26, 2011, at 12:03:05, Robert Vehse wrote: >>> Am 26.06.2011 um 20:59 schrieb Christopher Forsythe: >>>> Is your end goal here to just inform users that something is going on, or >>>> what? That'll better help to pick the one to use. >>> >>> Pretty much, yes. Isn't this a customary thing for migration processes? >> >> Does anything actually get changed in the saved settings? If so, then we >> should inform the user that we're going to make that change. > > Chat transcript directory structure is migrated to the new service (necessary > because the UIDs are formatted differently). Also, the login prompt is new, > because we now use Facebook's OAuth-style system rather than obtaining the > username/password ourselves and supplying that to the webscraping system. > >> >> If we're just changing a behind-the-scenes implementation detail, there's no >> reason to burden the user with that knowledge. >> > > Overall, I feel like this is all behind-the-scenes, and the only part > warranting consideration is how the user reacts to this new "enter your > facebook username/password" web window that pops up on first connect. As I > said before, though, it's a really standard appearing window that any > Facebook user has seen a thousand times.
FWIW I agree with this sentiment and don't expect most users would care but for those that do could you have some extra widgetry on the login view with "Why am I seeing this?" and link to a wiki page that explains what's going on. 2c from a lurker Joshua
