Here something to picture the idea.
imgur.com/gallery/Jzyx5qCOption one is the more elegant way, simple and efficient.
Option two, if you want to be fancy about it. Works by leting you control only half of the enable/disable square. The other half is your opponent's option.
Please vote what you like the best, or comment also with another variations or a mix of them.
Imagine a person chatting at you. You get tired of it and turn your chat off and they see that.
Imagine them saying in the chat: Yes, Finally, ... I was able to make him leave the chat room. Or simply thinking it.
Nobody needs to know if your chat is enabled or disabled.
What could be good is a notification dot in the chat room when someone @ user names you... and you want to know someone is calling you. So the green dot is like a telephone ringing but without the sound. The user can enable the chat to see what you wrote and still chose to not answer back. The rude sender will never know that the person looked at the rude comment.
Must always see the negative side of how a feature could be abused.
> #12 : Imagine a person chatting at you. You get tired of it and turn your chat off and they see that.
> Imagine them saying in the chat: Yes, Finally, ... I was able to make him leave the chat room. Or simply thinking it.
For me this is a win. Like closing a door. The rude guy that got the door in his face might kid himself as an accomplish, but as he/she matures, he will realize that receiving a door in the face is not something to be proud of, and maybe he/she will try to improve as a more easygoing person.
On the other hand, we don't need to send a warning "everytime" the chat is disabled. Make it to show only in the start of the game. That solves it. The issue here is to help people with chat disabled on the long run, not to flood the chat with warnings if someone keeps clicking on/off all the time.
> #12 : What could be good is a notification dot in the chat room when someone @ user names you...
I'm not sure I understood, but if the sugestion is to show a live "typing..." with dots, I strongly disagree. Not only it uses a lot of computer resources for a useless feature, it also brings the worst for instigating curiosity. You either turn the chat on and live with it, or turn it off and you are done. No need to "peek" or get any other information.
> #12 : Must always see the negative side of how a feature could be abused.
Agreed. That is important to check in all features. I think here, with a careful and thoughtful implementation, the benefits outweight the cons.
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Thanks for all the input.
I see a great support for it, so I created a "feature request issue" at github. You can see it here:
github.com/ornicar/lila/issues/6876My best,
Dr. Bèco
