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Re:No One Wants to Talk to Your Chatbot by joezydeco on Thursday July 27, 2023 @06:08PM (#36900803)
They don't just pop up - they pop up the moment the page loads, getting in your way.

A little bit tuning, say, to keep the popup from happening until the browser has been idle for N seconds, would go a long long way to reducing this frustration.

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Re:No One Wants to Talk to Your Chatbot by SoftTalker on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:32PM (#36902572)
The chatbot should never pop up on its own. At most, there should be a "talk to our chatbot" button so the user can choose to activate it.
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Re:No One Wants to Talk to Your Chatbot by southwesterly on Friday July 28, 2023 @05:56AM (#36904798)
Exactly. Or just have the chat bot on the help pages only.
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Re:No One Wants to Talk to Your Chatbot by Izkata on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:27AM (#36908290)
That's worse. We have one that has such a delay simply due to lag, and it interrupts you as you're starting whatever you're trying to attempt.
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