Show HN: Meet the new Ajax IM (with Node.js)

http://ajaxim.com

by endtwist • 16 years ago

95 18 16 years ago

ajaxim.com

SlyShy• 16 years ago

Love this already (that is, the source code is a really useful reference for me).

nym• 16 years ago

Very nicely done.

endtime• 16 years ago

Just a heads up, doesn't seem to work in Opera 10.5 (beta).

endtwist2• 16 years ago

I hate replying to my own post, but I just want to point out that the Node.js server is running on a Prgmr.com VPS with 128 MB RAM. The server is currently using 1.5 - 2.7% CPU and holding steady at about 43 MB of RAM with 70 connected users.

listic2• 16 years ago

Do you run anything else on that server? (i.e. git, blog?)

endtwist2• 16 years ago

Currently just running the Node.js server.

aquadoctorbob• 16 years ago

Bug report: when reading a website, I typically click the middle mouse button once in some whitespace, then gesture around to scroll slowly. The polling mechanism used here seems to dismiss the autoscroller. Firefox 3.6 / Windows XP.

sushi• 16 years ago

Oh boy! this is awesome.

listic2• 16 years ago

Nice app. But there's a little issue: it messes my history; i.e. when I press back button I can't go back to the previous page anymore.

karteek• 16 years ago

I guess, you are going to the previous page, but, previous page seems to be the same page. http://i.imgur.com/HcWI9.png

badave• 16 years ago

I think this has to do with how the page handles more friends and not how it handles the actual chat. There is probably a way to fix this... I'll have to look at the code later.

wvenable• 16 years ago

I was going to install this to a site but breaking the back button makes this unacceptable. ;(

dandelany• 16 years ago

Great service... Although I'm not sure that enabling guest chatting on the home page is a great idea, professionally speaking, for the following reason, which appeared 5 seconds after I loaded the page:

# Guest126627853584 05:59 PM • cock

edit: also, in Firefox 3.5.8 Mac, the tab title seems to flicker every time the client polls the server. Not sure if this is a fixable bug or just an artifact of all those HTTP requests.

asp742• 16 years ago

endtwist- Adding some chat bots to the demo instead of linking anonymous users could solve this problem. http://www.alicebot.org/downloads/programs.html

dschobel• 16 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOMl68X2Amk

I am... speechless.

rokhayakebe• 16 years ago

I actually used AjaxIM a few years back when the facebook platform first launched (Imessenger app). The app quickly grew to 18k users in 3 weeks, then we just stop working on it for reasons I can hardly remember. Very nice and easily customizable app.

davidedicillo• 16 years ago

Really slick!

Show HN: Meet the new Ajax IM (with Node.js)

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