In the spirit of The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta
I realized that there were a few things that needed to be decided by a large site that has suddenly gone SE 2.0. Initially I planned to make meta posts for each one, but then I realized that there were many of them, and since I'm ...
It'll probably take a few days for folks to find chat. It's got some cool features , one-boxing is quite nice, feeds, and if you're handy with Javascript you can write your own bots (though we don't guarantee the API to be stable)
(At the risk of saying something slightly sacrilegious, this might have been a good opportunity for someone with good design skills to redesign the MO logo!)
I had a separate log in account for mathoverflow. Now, I'm unable to log in into that. I see only options of logging in using google, facebook, stack exchange etc but no option of logging using mathoverflow. How can I access my old account?
I made that into a canonical (yet temporary) resource for anyone still finding themselves disenfranchised from their account. I just fixed about 15 more, I'm hoping we'll have all of them found and taken care of soon.
@ManishEarth What has worked well for MO should continue to work well for MO - just as every other individual SE community operates slightly differently. We're here for guidance, basically as consultants as we work through the transition.
@badp It may be interesting to make a list of useful new features with explanation on how to use each one (or links to relevant meta faq posts). What say?
I think most of the lost sheep are now back into their accounts properly. A few still trickling in, but we were able to get everyone sorted pretty quickly. Whew.
@TimPost, thanks for the Meta answer. As you can see, it is a tossup whether people will use Chat after the first few days. Interesting to see what happens when a discussion in comments goes long and the software suggests, or creates, a chatroom for two.
@WillJagy I think people will if they find that it fits their workflow well - it's great for asynchronous communication, and all nice and wired into the global inbox.
@TimPost, right. I used to suggest that on MO, years ago. It would have meant email. People even said they disliked the idea, because it would then not be visible to others...but these chats would be visible to anyone who thought it worthwhile to visit the room, or at least the transcript of it.
I just checked the logs, and I don't see any particular reason for it. I'm assuming you didn't get any kind of more specific error (there are quality checks in place that will trip on really short titles, but they are rather specific in their output)
@TheMaskedAvenger I believe that's still being established. Most sites do a mix of discussions about the topic of the site with some social "getting to know your fellow users" type stuff.
So far no mathematics has actually happened here. :-) Mathematicians can be a little old fashioned, and this whole "chat room" thing is not going to appeal to many. I'm showing up everyone so often just to see if anything is happening.
@ScottMorrison We have biweekly chat sessions on Physics (not as many users as you guys). We have fun discussions, half about the site and half about interesting new stuff. I think you need to just give a nudge, usually people like it. In fact, after the dist settles a bit, scheduling chat sessions may be an awesome idea. There's even a link on the main page shortly before and during the session.
@ScottMorrison Yep. I ought to have added that to my 6-meta-questions post (making it 7, restoring the balance in the world). Right now meta is full of confused people though, and François has already marked one post as "featured".
@ScottMorrison, one worthwhile aspect is unscheduled conversations when a posted question is not quite worked out completely, and there are two or three who still want to work on it. Smaller chatrroms give an alternative to email, which I used to suggest on MO but nobody ever did or agreed with. These will be "transparent" as far as the main site goes.
@WillJagy Yep. But chat events get people to like chat. A few folks start hanging around, and finally you have some regulars. And if your community is large enough, you may have constant conversation.
@EvanJenkins Oh, I see what's happened here. It may be the SE-MO agreement. The chat box usually shows up paired with the cross-site and community promo ads block.
@ManishEarth, yes. And I am accustomed to this from MSE. As long as there are no kids or others bombing me with questions here, I can stay on it rather than viewing the transcript.
The chat doesn't seem to appear in the sidebar on the main site (although it does on Meta). ManishEarth has suggested that this might be due to the no-ads agreement. I think it would be useful to have it appear in the sidebar, because right now I think its visibility is too low.
I looked at both, there is just too much detail for a little icon online. The original, in The Last Hero, is impressive..."The teeth seem to follow you around the room"
I had a separate log in account for mathoverflow. Now, I'm unable to log in into that. I see only options of logging in using google, facebook, stack exchange etc but no option of logging using mathoverflow. How can I access my old account?
The chat doesn't seem to appear in the sidebar on the main site (although it does on Meta). ManishEarth has suggested that this might be due to the no-ads agreement. I think it would be useful to have it appear in the sidebar, because right now I think its visibility is too low.
