2) Too many benefits to outweigh the fears. I need this because of all the times I end up crashing or having to relog mid-project and it’s like the slate has been wiped blank. Ugh.

3) This also ties into better inworld communication. It’s a pain having to mentally calculate, “Am I 20 m away now or what?” when you want to ensure someone else isn’t listening. And oh, IM isn’t ideal because it’s clunky for the flow that IRC channels do so well: people coming and going on-the-fly.

4) Yes please. HAHAHA IM SO BIAS

5) This is the opposite of a Mute list in someway. It adds emphasis!

6) This sounds really good. I can’t believe there isn’t more interactivity in the Chat History, now that you mention it.

7) I find chat bubbles to be useless in large crowds. They had a novelty appeal for me but on a day-to-day basis, I can’t use ‘em. I like There’s more because it shows someone typing letter by letter. Again, appeals to my love of “flow”.

Anyway, yeah I agree about chat bubbles, There was good in that it kinda limited it a bit, but if you ever went to a party in There with huge crowds, the chat bubbles sucked (literly for a while). I like flow, but one thing I hate about having it show text as you type is then you can make mistakes all the time and can’t really go back and fix them cause everyones seen it already.

Hopefully the XUI will be developed enough where it’s actualy easier to do stuff like that.