<story><title>IRCv3 Spec round-up</title><url>https://ircv3.net/2021/11/17/spec-round-up</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moritonal</author><text>I once implemented in a dead chat-app a &amp;quot;typing notification&amp;quot; by sending both the `isTyping` flag, along with the length of the unsent message. On the clients side it was displayed as a blurred lorem-ipsum of the correct length.&lt;p&gt;It was the nicest form of instant conversation I&amp;#x27;ve ever had. Watching the blurred text become a message was lovely and every conversation felt snapper rather than anxiety-inducing as you start at the &amp;quot;x is typing&amp;quot; message, instead you just watch the sentance grow, then materialise.</text></item><item><author>d--b</author><text>Ugh, they added &amp;quot;Typing notification&amp;quot;.
Thankfully it&amp;#x27;s only a protocol, we can ignore this if we want.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fnord123</author><text>Yikes. The amount of times I type a message only to delete it, people I&amp;#x27;m talking to will probably be horrified if they saw me give a wall of text to be replaced with &amp;quot;cool&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>IRCv3 Spec round-up</title><url>https://ircv3.net/2021/11/17/spec-round-up</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moritonal</author><text>I once implemented in a dead chat-app a &amp;quot;typing notification&amp;quot; by sending both the `isTyping` flag, along with the length of the unsent message. On the clients side it was displayed as a blurred lorem-ipsum of the correct length.&lt;p&gt;It was the nicest form of instant conversation I&amp;#x27;ve ever had. Watching the blurred text become a message was lovely and every conversation felt snapper rather than anxiety-inducing as you start at the &amp;quot;x is typing&amp;quot; message, instead you just watch the sentance grow, then materialise.</text></item><item><author>d--b</author><text>Ugh, they added &amp;quot;Typing notification&amp;quot;.
Thankfully it&amp;#x27;s only a protocol, we can ignore this if we want.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaycuriou</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m normally opposed to typing notifications, but I really like this idea for certain channels. How did you handle the case where many people are typing at once? &amp;gt;5 might get noisy if they all had their own lines.</text></comment>