The internal format of 'message' had changed, so prior to this commit,
the tutorial was receiving (a) internally inconsistent, and (b)
not-what-it-expected versions of the message.
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It's subtle, but the slice was in the wrong place and wasn't
actually truncating the stream name at all, so the client and
server disagreed about where the tutorial messages should go.
(It might be the case that we should accept the tutorial stream
name from the client directly, rather than computing it in two
places.)
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If the system was waiting for you to reply and you replied 'exit', the
tutorial would stop -- but our thing that was waiting for you to reply
would continue waiting. It would eventually timeout and send you the
heartbroken "I didn't hear from you so I stopped waiting" message.
Chances are, you were unsubscribed so you didn't see it, but we
should still just not send it.
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Some functions invoked by the make_script framework weren't returning
their Deferreds. I noticed this as the hello stream not getting picked
correctly because loading your real subs hadn't completed yet.
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Previously we added some names to your subs to use them as examples
during the tutorial. We no longer do that, but the tutorial could pick
a name from that list to recommend that you say hi on, even if you
aren't subbed.
Don't do that, and instead try to pick a stream that is in turn:
* your company name
* a probably-good stream name like social
* a stream that is hopefully not an alert stream like nagios
* eventually give up and pick anything
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Also handle the case of subscribing failing.
This race could cause you to not see initial traffic from the tutorial bot.
(imported from commit 395a2968555e20a4dbc106dfa9d5790e9f102a3e)
Those examples make the tutorial feel much longer, and they aren't
relevant to people who aren't using Humbug to talk about code.
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It's not so black and white in a world where we auto-scroll at the
bottom, and we've observed that people trying Humbug over-focus on it.
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We were previously having an issue where the tutorial could
be pre-empted if you got a few messages while you were first
logging in.
I have some reservations about this being slightly fragile, and a
better approach might be to just have a bit that we use to determine
whether or not you've already seen a tutorial. (Or potentially that
checks whether or not you've ever sent a message.)
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Use less technical subjects, and make them good examples of actual
topics you'd want to discuss (previous examples like 'jQuery' might
leave people wondering "jQuery is a technology, not a topic, why is
that a subject?")
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I.e. if you sent a stream message, Tutorial bot will reply to that
stream, and if you sent a PM, Tutorial bot will reply with a PM.
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This now adds you to a special `tutorial-username` when you begin,
we send tutorial messages there, and we remove you from it when
you're done.
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But only allow them to send to tutorial-<<your username>>.
The idea being that this helps reduce potential abuse from this JSON
call. (Because otherwise, anyone could call into this endpoint and
have the tutorial bot send random messages to random peoples's
streams.)
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The first change might somewhat address users asking "does it matter
which one I click on?" by not being specific that one should click on
_this message_.
The latter I think addresses a small confusion I've seen where people
try try to hit tab before starting a reply.
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Most of them are just typos or funny punctuation, but this also adds
the word "above" after "You and Humbug Tutorial Bot" since otherwise
the user might try to click the text in the message body and be
confused.
(imported from commit dccaf4acd24db713acab261440f0a9d03860e0f4)
Here I have a sketchy but functional framework for dealing with
all of the async stuff that a tutorial requires, and an early
draft of what such a tutorial might look like.
I could probably go and remove the first-run message, but I'll
keep it around for now in the unlikely event that something I
haven't anticipated goes wrong in starting up the tutorial.
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Jessica McKellar
Waseem Daher
Tim Abbott
Leo Franchi
Reid Barton
Keegan McAllister