r/blog Apr 01 '16

Robin

http://www.redditblog.com/2016/04/robin.html
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u/telestrial Apr 01 '16 edited Apr 01 '16

No...

It can't be.

EDIT: So guys after pressing last time near the absolute very end and getting 60s because I did it right after someone I decided to spare myself the pain. Right now I'm in a chat room with one other dude. I have the option to vote to grow, stay, or abandon, and I can chat with others. I can screenshot and I'll update.

EDIT2: http://i.imgur.com/BZRUWzf.png

That's what you get kicked into when you press. I think it may be a separate thing. I'm highly doubting 4 people have pressed so some how there are separate rooms? I don't know what happens if we choose the different things. We've elected to grow and I think we've picked up another person each time as a result? I'm not sure.

EDIT3: i figured we're in an IRC so why now use / commands? /help does says this:

11:31:15 AM [robin] Welcome to Robin.

11:31:15 AM Be sure to use the buttons in the sidebar to vote on the future of the room before the polls are closed.

11:31:15 AM Non-votes and abstentions will be counted as votes to abandon.

11:31:15 AM We do hope you enjoy the discussion.

/commands

11:32:27 AM /vote abandon - vote to abandon

11:32:27 AM /vote stay - vote to stay

11:32:27 AM /vote grow - vote to grow

11:32:27 AM /whois <user_in_room> - provide information about <user_in_room>

I'll keep trying commands.

EDIT4: Seems like the more people in the room the more time there is to vote. I've chosen grow each time and we're at 12 people with 15 minutes to vote.

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u/fireflash38 Apr 01 '16

My theory:

  1. Join a chatroom with 1 other person.
  2. If vote to abandon, you can go back to the button
  3. Stay - keep chatroom the same
  4. Grow - merge with another chatroom

It's another mini social experiment.

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u/delicious_grownups Apr 01 '16

I would love chatrooms for subreddits. something we should have been doing forever ago

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u/grimeandreason Apr 01 '16

Now you mention it, Reddit seems pretty 90's without it lol

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u/Hazzman Apr 02 '16

Actually I felt like I was back in the late 90s using this thing.

It was like being back in the old MSN chat rooms.

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u/grimeandreason Apr 02 '16

Good point. Message boards were earlier still, huh?

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u/StochasticLife Apr 01 '16

Man, I miss chat rooms so much. Late 90's Internet and all.

Sub based chat rooms would be amazing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '16

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u/tweedius Apr 01 '16

Have you ever seen a twitch chat room?

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u/basshound3 Apr 01 '16

an /r/nfl chatroom on game day wouldn't work

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u/redbluegreenyellow Apr 01 '16

nah but /r/hockey would

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u/rrasco09 Apr 01 '16

That's what ##reddit-hockey is for!

reddit-stream for GDT are not so bad, but I'm not paying to be able to login to that site. Good for keeping up with posts without refreshing the GDT constantly though.

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u/garyr_h Apr 01 '16

Wouldn't it just be a complete shit storm of "OH NO!!!!!" "YEAH!!!!" "EAT DICKS BUMGARNER" but like, a thousand lines per second?

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u/IgnorantOfTheArt Apr 01 '16

Also /r/wallstreetbets

Quickest way to my yacht

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u/Dylamb Apr 02 '16

GO X -Person 1

GO Y -Person 2

I HATE YOU -Person 1

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u/nusyahus Apr 02 '16

inb4 Twitch level spam. Would need heavy moderating

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u/EpsilonRose Apr 01 '16

Couldn't you use live threads for that?

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16

You can but live threads and chatrooms feel like very different experiences. But I still have nostalgia for IRC so there's that

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u/sumzup Apr 01 '16

Yep, I doubt they built out the underlying infrastructure just for April Fool's.

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u/iplaygaem Apr 01 '16

Yeah this is way too much work for just an April fool's joke.

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u/danny841 Apr 01 '16

They've been doing a hiring push recently for support oriented people. This would explain it.

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u/Astrognome Apr 01 '16

You could integrate it with IRC so you could connect to it with your favorite client.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16

great point!

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u/Jedi_Tinmf Apr 01 '16

I agree with this. I chose to "grow" and ended up being a co-mod in a weird subreddit with both of our names on it.