[ticker-dev] Latest draft

[michael j lawley]

David Arnold wrote:

> I was disucssing this with Bill the other day, in the context of
> adding support for Distribution to xticker.
> 
> We wanted two basic things:
> 
> a) A reply to a message should default to the same Distribution as the
>    original message
> 
> b) Any message (reply or otherwise) using a non-default scope should
>    highlight that fact fairly blatantly (not as blatanly as a
>    confirmation dialog, but ... think vivid red panel or something)
> 
> DSTC is one organisation that has (or used to have) three distribution
> scopes: internal, participant, and public, as an example.  So
> something more than a simple toggle would be required there.
> 
> There are a bunch of UI issues here which I don't think sticker (or
> eTiks, etc) has fully explored.

Indeed, think about the current Chat / chat.world situation and all the 
hassle about federating Chat (and other channels) with ITEE.  Support 
for Distribution would have easily alleviated most the problems involved 
and left the actual solution to the discretion of the individual poster.

In fact, this concept may also improve the idea of the <username> 
channel if things were switched around to be the "personal" channel with 
Distribution <username>.

michael