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RE: Disappointing take-up of Gather.Town

John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Thu, 30 July 2020 18:00 UTC

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--On Thursday, July 30, 2020 18:24 +0100 Adrian Farrel
<adrian@olddog.co.uk> wrote:

> Meeting with newcomers…
> 
> At a physical meeting it's easy: spot the Newcomer ribbon;
> walk up; say hello.

Or watch for people standing around looking bewildered, walk up,
and ask if there is something you can help with.

And that may be another reason why creating a Gather.Town or
equivalent (I hope with a greatly reengineered UI with more
presence of people and names and less of advertising) version of
the Newcomer Meet-and-Greet might be especially helpful.

> In Gather.Town it is only complicated by:
> 
> *	You're not in Gather.Town
> *	They're not in Gather.Town
> *	You don't know they're a Newcomer

I am having visions of color-coding the Meetecho participant
lists and Gather.Town names and avatars to match the growing
number of badge dots and ribbons.  Probably more like a
nightmare :-(

best,
  john

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