Please critique our little website

http://squarechat.com

by secos • 16 years ago

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squarechat.com

secos5• 16 years ago

We wrote this a while back as a test for another project. Would love feedback!

idoh3• 16 years ago

What is this for / how will it help me?

secos5• 16 years ago

Was hoping you'd tell us!

Obviously its a video chat program... question is exactly what good is it? Would love to hear your ideas. :)

danfitch3• 16 years ago

There is a test room that never expires(The rooms created expire after 20 minutes) if you want to chat with others from HN http://www.squarechat.com/hntest

alexl• 16 years ago

Doesn't work so well. I think the guy there wanted to tell me something, but I could only hear his words VERY slow. Like a magnetic audio tape played back at much less than the normal speed.

Then again, who knows how far apart we were from each other, both geographically and from the point of view of the connection.

jeff182• 16 years ago

I couldn't get it to work in Mac OS X Snow Leopard with Chrome. I could see myself, but the other box was always either non existent or white.

secos5• 16 years ago

the other boxes are other people who did not turn on their cameras or didn't have one.

jeff182• 16 years ago

I'd consider the lack of that info a bug, unless you are expecting people to deduce that. ;)

jolie• 16 years ago

Needs a better explanation of what it is, what it does, and why anyone would use it - think of the end users.

Also, for time-sensitive video chat, Twitter OAuth is where it's at.

secos5• 16 years ago

why have any auth at all?

Agree fully on the explanation... like I said it was a test for something else and we just threw it up on the server to see how it worked.

Thanks for the feedback!

scotje• 16 years ago

Your Get Satisfaction widget brought up the feedback options for Get Satisfaction itself instead of for your app.

danfitch3• 16 years ago

Thanks should be fixed now.

wildsalmon• 16 years ago

http://www.opinbot.com/reviews/show/agdvcGluYm90chwLEhVyZXZp...

idoh3• 16 years ago

opinbot - that's a funny site. I can't tell if the review of people's twitter feeds is real or satire.

jasonkester• 16 years ago

Cool. So it's kinda like TokBox but without the suck.

Gimme an API and a sense that you'll be around for a while and I'm in. Better still, give me the tools to set up my own server.

And charge me money for it.

bmelton• 16 years ago

I don't know WHY it bothers me, but I should mention that it DOES -- the 'square' in the logo is rectangular, and my mind can't get over that.

I'd rework the logo entirely if you could actually, and I don't know when the 'feedback on the left side of the page' became a popular phenomenon, or who started it, but I honestly find it to be extremely silly.

That said, I like the overall look of the site, though it's obviously quite spartan at this point.

danfitch3• 16 years ago

Haha, good point about the []. And also thank you for the input on the feedback link.

DTrejo• 16 years ago

I really don't like get Satisfaction very much at all.

I prefer email support any day.

lambdom• 16 years ago

I see a white square with nothing in it.

Madhav_• 16 years ago

It lags a lot. That's really the only problem I see with it. A share link would be cool so it could be like tokbox.

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