Ask HN: what do you think of my chat app?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=417508

by th0ma5 • 18 years ago

10 10 18 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

http://270rule.appspot.com/ is anonymous live chat for any page, plus a feed of who is chatting where. no login, bbcode, and some embedding are supported. let me know what you think! thank you hn!!!!

th0ma52• 18 years ago

sorry to interact with the service, use the bookmarklet on the main page while browsing any other page

jackowayed2• 18 years ago

It's pretty cool. I'm using it on this page right now.

Your home site needs a little work. The links sometimes collide with the text.

It also would be good to add some kind of description on the home page. Even just putting "Anonymous Chat for Any Page" right below the big "270rule" would be a step up.

Also, it would be nice if it would highlight what I've posted (even if it's only temporary, going away after a refresh) so that I can quickly see which messages are "new" (as in came later than the last thing I've said).

Also, I did eventually find the close link on my own, but it's not at all obvious. You can put "270 rule" somewhere else, but you really want to tell people that that link closes it.

And if you can find a way not to allow people to open it several times on the same page (Try clicking the bookmarklet several times and see what happens.) that would be cool.

fadmmatt• 18 years ago

Done: http://www.yaplet.com/

th0ma52• 18 years ago

nice way she handles a lot of things there. i like the way usernames on the chat are handled. interesting use of frames too

jackowayed2• 18 years ago

Looks like you're having issues w/ the quotas already.

I just got a 403 Over Quota. Refresh fixed, but still.

sanj• 18 years ago

http://talkinator.com/

tocomment• 18 years ago

Whatever happened to circle of chat/conversation (I forget the exact name :-(

That was a nice one. This one sounds cool too, I'll check it out later.

jonursenbach• 18 years ago

Needs a lot of work, to say the least.

safetytrick• 18 years ago

I tried out the Hot right now link, should this show active yaplet chats across the web? I can't see myself checking pages to see if they have open chats (I'm sure the plan is to use a link rather than check each page) Maybe a browser plugin could alert me if other yaplet users are chatting or visiting pages I am browsing?

poops• 18 years ago

here's another with dynamic room names http://yamr.net/hacker_news

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