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by gsundeep • 14 years ago

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saucow• 14 years ago

Wow. Looks pretty amazing guys. Love the bitcoin donation links. beautiful interface too; Can't wait to use it in the bitcoin community

phasevar2• 14 years ago

Woot! I created a room. :-)

https://chatstep.com/#HackerNews

yashchandra• 14 years ago

I m in the room but with a different id :). looks neat.

carlsednaoui• 14 years ago

Looks amazing!

phasevar2• 14 years ago

What's the technology behind this?

mnazim• 14 years ago

I could see the SocketIO. Would love to know more

gsundeep7• 14 years ago

We use node.js and Socket.IO for the real time communication and we also run nginx to serve static content.

danvideo3• 14 years ago

using windows 7 and chrome - can't create or join rooms

edit: now realizing it's probably corporate FW related, blocking port 4000

gsundeep7• 14 years ago

Hi Dan,

Can you check Inspect Element -> Console and see if there are any errors being reported?

Thanks!

danvideo3• 14 years ago

red X near the following... GET https://chatstep.com:4000/socket.io/1/?t=1341425107446 socket.io.js:1632 Socket.handshake socket.io.js:1632 Socket.connect socket.io.js:1671 Socket socket.io.js:1530 io.connect socket.io.js:91 (anonymous function)

mmmooo• 14 years ago

Please don't use obscure ports for the sockets (aka tcp:4000).

1) many corporate/etc firewalls filter these type of packets

2) my personal reaction when the browser requests access to a socket on an unusual port is "Deny". Which is just what I did, and of course then there is no notification to me that it failed or any way to create/join a room.

danvideo3• 14 years ago

this sounds like the diagnosis to why I can't get it working either, though I never saw a browser request for a particular port

gsundeep7• 14 years ago

We're planning to move everything behind a load balancer running on standard ports like 80 and 443.

Thanks for the feedback!

thrill• 14 years ago

It works nicely with Ubuntu 12.04 and Chrome. The response time us fast, even with images and youtube videos. On youtube, if you paste a link such as

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=l8rxJRsINU4

that does a full-screen video, instead of

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8rxJRsINU4

you don't get the embedded functionality - suggest you capture the _popup segment and remove it for consistency of display

gsundeep7• 14 years ago

Thanks for letting us know. We'll fix this very soon!

twodayslate2• 14 years ago

Why/how is this better than web IRC?

gsundeep7• 14 years ago

ChatStep has client side encryption and multimedia sharing.

twodayslate2• 14 years ago

Some web based IRC clients have this. There are a lot to chose from as well http://twodayslate.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/web-based-irc-cl...

Nux• 14 years ago

secure, beautiful; where can I download it from?

alainbryden• 14 years ago

Great site. We will always have http://petscollect.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/funny-whit... ;)

gsundeep7• 14 years ago

Thanks! ;)

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