Receiving MSN emoticons is also working... :D On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 20:43, Joshua Lock <incandesc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > >
