<div dir="ltr">Agree the user experience is very unintuitive. I recommend downloading the app before coming to the event just in case, and using it as a backup strategy. <div><br></div><div>Or if the whims of fate is your thing it can also be fun to have no communication strategy. Burn all the apps!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 1:32 AM, Mitch Altman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maltman23@hotmail.com" target="_blank">maltman23@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr">On Firechat (as with pretty much everything), I'm:<br> maltman23. <br> <br>I've "created" nopecamp (since there's no way to "add" anything). And, after "following" rubin110 and dmvaldman and willowbI00 and the_merlin and ScotchReuter, everything seems to be working. I can DM everyone, and post to nopecamp. But, there seems to be a very looooong delay between posting to nopecamp and others seeing posts.<br> <br>Mitch.<br><br> <br><div><hr>From: <a href="mailto:dmvaldman@gmail.com" target="_blank">dmvaldman@gmail.com</a><br>Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 16:44:39 -0700<div><div class="h5"><br>To: <a href="mailto:congress@lists.noisebridge.net" target="_blank">congress@lists.noisebridge.net</a><br>Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-congress] FireChat app for communicating at Camp?<br><br><div>That sounds like the right sequence of events. In fact I don't think the following part is necessary. What's your name on it Mitch? I'm dmvaldman<br><br>Dave</div><div><br>On Aug 9, 2015, at 4:24 PM, Mitch Altman <<a href="mailto:maltman23@hotmail.com" target="_blank">maltman23@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote><div>
<div dir="ltr">I just installed Firrechat. I added rubin110. I "created" nopecamp. Not sure if it's working.<br><br> <br><div><hr>From: <a href="mailto:rubin@starset.net" target="_blank">rubin@starset.net</a><br>Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 00:00:42 +0200<br>To: <a href="mailto:congress@lists.noisebridge.net" target="_blank">congress@lists.noisebridge.net</a><br>Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-congress] FireChat app for communicating at Camp?<br><br><div dir="ltr">Ok folks, this thing is stupid and silly and possibly useful. Think of Firechat not as chat but as a P2P Twitter. There's a main "Everyone" feed which includes tagged messages from #channels. If you enter a channel you're simply seeing a filtered view of only those tagged messages from the Everyone feed. The DMs are private but everyone sees all the chats from all channels that are geographically near by.<div><br></div><div>This would be a fun experiment. I'm not sure if the BT component will work if you've got an older phone, but it's worth a try. We still have the Google Hangouts thing and this mailing list.</div><div><br></div><div>To join "nopecamp" simply download/install, register an account with an email address. Add someone from the camp and have them add you back. At that point I think you just need to tell it you want to create/join "nopecamp" and it should work.</div><div><br></div><div>I've added a column to the roster for Firechat user names.</div><div><br></div></div><div><br><div>On 9 August 2015 at 22:55, Rubin Abdi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rubin@starset.net" target="_blank">rubin@starset.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr">So I can't get this to work. After installing the app, when I hit the link I just get redirected to the Play store. Do you want to add me to your friends list and try to invite that way?<div><br></div><div>rubin110</div></div><div><div><div><br><div>On 9 August 2015 at 22:17, Rubin Abdi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rubin@starset.net" target="_blank">rubin@starset.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><p dir="ltr">I'm up for trying it but not abandoning Hangouts. I believe the p2p works through BLE, so this makes it useless for some of our trash hacker Android devices. But it'll be a good experiment. I should be rubin<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">This while local chat room is slightly creepy where I'm sitting right now. Is this Everyone channel just based off GPS or actual BLE mesh?<br>
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<div dir="ltr">failed to include a link to the app: <a href="http://firechat.opengarden.com/" target="_blank">http://firechat.opengarden.com/</a></div><div><br><div>On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 12:39 PM, David Valdman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmvaldman@gmail.com" target="_blank">dmvaldman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr">I’ve never used it in practice, but it’s a chat app that creates a mesh network between all users and as long as one of us has an internet connection, we can proxy through him/her. It’s often used in events with high densities of people. The security of it I’m not certain about. Maybe someone here can add some helpful advice on the matter.<div><br></div><div>I’ve just created a room called nopecamp. You can access it via the web on your mobile device at <a href="http://firech.at/nopecamp" target="_blank">http://firech.at/nopecamp</a> after installing the app.</div><div><br></div><div>I know we have a lot of chat apps lying around, but I worry that with poor internet connectivity on mobile google hangout/slack will not work well for some of us.</div><div><br></div><div>Dave</div></div>
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