[ticker-dev] Merging chat and news messages?

[Ted Phelps]

Klaus Alexander Seistrup may have said:
> I was under the impression that the org.tickertape.message v2.0 was
> supposed to merge chat and news messages into a unified message
> format - a step that I welcome, since it somehow simplifies the
> writing of client implementations.

I'm afraid that I'm not particularly keen on this idea.

 From my point of view, the format of a notification should not be
bent, folded or mutilated in order to accomodate a particular
consumer.  There's a tendency to make every notification into a
tickertape notification because that's the only UI we have, and this
feels like an extreme case of that tendency.  I'm not at all happy
with the idea of a chat message having a "Subject" field.

my 2p,
-Ted