[jdev] Jabber Community Site : Call for Help

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I think so, too.

btw. I expect that no jabber developers will spend time in managing 
such a webpage as they will better invest more time in their 
components&clients. Therefor such a page would rather depend on some 
enthusiastic users... And such a user can not be motivated by a 
decission of the jabber council or something.

But where to find them? How to motivate them?

Even if it is only blah blah, the best looking and best organized 
*private* webpages are often found under the game webpages. Maybe we 
can motivate some Ultima Online Shard or Quake admin/user/clanmember 
to do such a thing...

edrin

On 4 Oct 2004 at 22:12, Julian Missig wrote:

> On 4 Oct 2004, at 18:46, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> 
> > Sounds a bit over the top to try to guess what client would be best 
> > depending on what other IM clients the user has used. And also, imho 
> > the usability of ICQ sucks, and presenting the user with something 
> > much easier to use might be a better drive then presenting him with 
> > something very similar.
> 
> I never said I thought ICQ was good, but regardless of how "easy" 
> something is to use, presenting the user with something most similar to 
> what they're used to will always be less disruptive for them than 
> presenting them with something completely different.
> 
> Sure I may not agree with ICQ's UI or Psi's UI, but ICQ users will 
> still find Psi easier to use than something like Trillian or 
> Gossip--just because it's similar. I was just using Psi/ICQ as an 
> example because I feel that the Psi/ICQ interface deviates from the 
> norm quite a bit. Kind of like WinJab (or Exodus with one-window style) 
> would be very very odd to an ICQ or AIM user trying to use it like they 
> used ICQ or AIM.
> 
> I just think that since we already /have/ all these clients mimicking 
> different kinds of UI, we might as well point people in the direction 
> they'd be most comfortable with.
> 
> Yes, it's odd logic, but it's logic that most of my sources of HCI 
> education seem to agree with. It's the same reason that companies try 
> to switch away from Lotus Notes but fail. Unfortunately you can't fight 
> all UI battles at the same time.
> 
> And yeah, guessing based on info like that is over-the-top, but it was 
> just an idea. Something that in my perfect world an end-user Jabber 
> site could do.
> 
> Julian
>