[pkg-otr-team] [OpenITP Dev] OTR.im launch

[Jurre van Bergen]

Hoi Holmes,

Thanks so much for the input, I have replied below.

On 04/24/2014 06:54 PM, Holmes Wilson wrote:
> Jure— This is great; totally very needed.
>
> Do you have a group todo list for this project? I think a few small changes would make it even better.

Not really, we have updated some stuff around the website already,
please have a look again!

>
> 1) A clear big download button in the top section on the front page, that autodetects the user’s platform, and has alternate platform download links. Examples: http://www.utorrent.com/ or https://videolan.org/vlc/

It would be great to have, but i'm a bit skeptical on how to provide
this in a safe way. I'm open for suggestions, but wouldn't place this
high on a priority list.

>
> 2) A clear visual explanation of how OTR works, and that it works with familiar services like gtalk and Facebook. It might be worth having designer friends make an infographic-style image. If somebody could make a video, that would be even better.

That would be amazing indeed! Maybe OpenITP or people on this list knows
of people who could help with this? We don't have any funds, we can
offer them glorious libtech karma? ;-)

>
> 3) Buttons along the side of the page to share it on Facebook and Twitter. It might even be worth using the Facebook message dialog, so you can send a message to Facebook friends directly telling them to get OTR:  https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/send-dialog
I have a bit of an ethical dilemma with Facebook. However, at the end of
the day, it's the user who makes the decision to be on facebook and to
share and not me. I'll make a ticket for this!

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> 4) Finally, I think the biggest need here is for this to become the default URL included in the message that non-OTR-capable users receive when a friend wants to start an OTR conversation. Right now, if I try to start an OTR conversation with somebody who doesn’t have OTR, they get this page https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ which isn’t a very good introduction for a new user. Otr.im seems like an ideal replacement, especially if you make the above changes.
Yes! Yes! Yes! I will make a ticket about this on https://bugs.otr.im/

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> An extension of #4 would be to try to initiate OTR conversations by default, say, max once per week with each friend when you start a conversation, with a message that just gives the URL. If this feature got integrated into libotr, it would make OTR *much* more viral! And I don’t really see a downside; it wouldn’t be too annoying, and you could let users turn it off if they want to.

I see, we have discussed something along these lines but in a different
fashion, we wanted to start a campaign to let OTR capable clients start
conversations in an opportunistic fashion. If two clients have OTR,
either a message will appear or an OTR conversation will start. I will
make a research ticket about this!

Thanks for the very useful feedback!

All the best,
Jurre

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