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Re: Sqwiggle: Someone is watching you

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Post by tommoor » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 10:35 AM UTC

bradleydwyer wrote: post #10

ericbieller wrote: post #6

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Hey there, Eric here from Sqwiggle. Thanks for the detailed comment! Seems like you may have encountered a bug with busy mode. If you have it enabled, no one should be able to initiate a conversation with you. They can, however, "ping" you, which will allow you to choose to accept the connection. But it's possible I mis-understood what the exact issue was, if so, feel free to clarify :) We definitely resonate with th…

Hi Eric, I meant to drop you guys a message a while back, but just never found a moment to do it. There was a redesign a few months ago, notably this was when the camera became inactive if you were alone in the chat room. The issue with the busy state is, prior to this software release/version the busy flag was never removed unless you removed it or initiated a chat (after you accept the ping). After the redesign, th…

Bradley, we're also changing busy to be persistent across devices and sessions in the next few weeks, I think this will help your situation.

Re: Sqwiggle: Someone is watching you

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Post by tommoor » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 5:02 PM UTC

seivan wrote: post #19

ericbieller wrote: post #7

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Hmm what gave you this impression? In fact we've been using Sqwiggle daily since our very first prorotype :) Tbh I don't think we would get half as much done without it, we certainly wouldn't be as connected given that we're a distributed team.

Mostly because you're stating SF as a location for dev roles :) - I guess I was wrong. Thanks for clearing that up. Interesting...

Ah, thanks for the note - I've changed the Angellist to clarify this :)

Re: Sqwiggle: Someone is watching you

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Post by ericbieller » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 6:03 PM UTC

pdenya wrote: post #16

MWil wrote: post #2

wouldn't a simple motion-detected: yes flag or motionLastDetected:XX:XX:XX be less invasive?

As the article states, it's helpful for others to see whether or not you're on a call or eating or whatever else.

There's also a personal element. It's nice to see the faces of the people you work with throughout the day. Certainly has helped to create a tighter social bond on our team.