We all 💜 a good chat - but do you ever feel there’s a little something missing from the conversation? We've decided to fill this gap, and over the coming weeks we’re enabling a new feature - Topics. Topics brings more structured conversations and content to your community. You can
Why the fuss about conversational programming?
First, there isn’t much fuss … yet. But there will be.
BlueSky Trending Topics: Past & Present Conversations in One Place
Explore BlueSky's trending topics, from past to present. BlueSky is becoming the next big thing—a moderated space where people gather to discuss what's happening, free from hate speech and disruptive behavior. Stay updated on the latest trends.
From Space, to Time
This post is the text version of a talk I’ve been giving at several conferences (and I plan to give it a couple more times). I have spent many years observing and building things on the web and this is one of the main trends I’ve been…
The fall... and rise and rise and rise of chat networks
From CompuServe to Telegram, chat has come a long way—and it's just getting started.
Exploring Conversation Design: Applications and Benefits
Discover the what, why and how of Conversation Design, including its definition, applications, and benefits.
A few design decisions for a new chat platform - the sporks space
Discord has recently made a controversial decision that could be the start of long-term decline. The situation has people looking at alternatives. However, a lot of the alternatives I feel bark up the wrong tree, or are good for certain… Continue reading →
Topics — Real Life
ABOUT TOPICS: Since we began Real Life in the summer of 2016, we’ve run many essays across a range of topics, with a particular focus on the personal and cultural implications of living with technology. Our aim is not to track the news cycle so much as the longstanding social issues that inform and transcend it. We wanted to make it easier to read and explore Real Life beyond our chronological archive, so we’ve created these Topics to gather in one place the work we’ve published on some key themes. More Topics will be added to this page over time.
Best practices: conversation design
An introduction to IBM Research’s Natural Conversation Framework
Finally had a sec to write about the conversation component we added to the @atproto.com blog.
Bring Atmospheric conversations to any website
am.jimray.netthis is really great, and i'm glad that you're thinking about it!! I just started building @atmobb.app and wanted to build a way for it to pull in topics from similar forums and landed on subscribing to a "topic" for those forums. very excited to see what happens!!
Reupping a 🧵 from this summer: This product is supposedly about conversations, but it's missing a key feature which highlights the interactions we've had The most useful tab I could have when viewing your profile is a timeline focused on *our* conversations: quotes, replies, reposts, likes, etc.
Paul Rohr
For example, what if MY view of YOUR profile included an affordance which let me chronologically browse the intersection of: - everything you posted + I liked, or - vice versa Would those two be separate timelines, or just a single conversational flow of all our mutual interactions? Hmmm...
My latest (soft) proposal thanks to some really productive conversations we've been having.
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Join the discussion to figure this out here discourse.atprotocol.community/t/mapping-web-pages-to-canoni…
