Show HN: Hacker News Talk, a Chrome extension for real-time commentary

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-talk/hhelddnkhfpbelngoaknanokldjhfhfd

by wildermuthn • 13 years ago

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wildermuthn3• 13 years ago

Built with Firebase, Angular, Node, Redis. Just the right recipe for a Chrome extension. Huge kudos to the Firebase team. Can't say enough about their product and support.

hanley• 13 years ago

Is the source code available for this?

jaredsohn• 13 years ago

Chrome extensions are just HTML/JavaScript/CSS so there should always be source available. Sometimes it is obfuscated, although that is not the case for this extension.

You can get the source by either installing it or by using this extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-s... which lets you view the source prior to installing. (And that extension has source available on github.)

angersock• 13 years ago

bahahahahahahaha this is going to end so well

(Seriously, though, good work!)

Spittie• 13 years ago

That's cool. I find the real-time typing quite annoying, mostly because if two or more people talk at the same time, messages that aren't completed yet get pushed to the bottom. I think it might get really messy if a lot of people start using it.

The nicest thing in my opinion is that every article get it's own chatroom, so that people can talk about a single argument (and can post things that aren't maybe worth a full comment).

Is a Firefox version under development?

wildermuthn3• 13 years ago

Good points... every comment thread gets its own room too, like yours above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6562592

The reasoning behind the streaming text and auto-submits is to keep the conversation ephemeral, in the moment, more like talking than texting.

petercooper2• 13 years ago

I know it's been discussed before, but I so wish Chrome Extensions for use on specific sites didn't need to ask for permissions like "Access your data on all websites" and "Access your tabs and browsing activity." It's a usability nightmare and sounds rather scary in today's security climate.

wildermuthn3• 13 years ago

Thanks, Peter. Others have mentioned this as well. About 30 minutes ago I submitted an update that limits the extension's permissions to HN only, although it still accesses your active tab in order to place you in the right room. I'll see about a work-around for the tabs.

petercooper2• 13 years ago

Ah, cool! I just assumed this wasn't possible and Chrome forced developers to do this as extensions always seem to ask for these overarching permissions when I check them out, sadly.

mappum• 13 years ago

Good job, but I have one small suggestion: the name colors should be seeded by the name value, so people are always the same color. That's what IRC clients do so you remember people a little better.

StavrosK• 13 years ago

It's not working for me. I get:

Denying load of chrome-extension://hhelddnkhfpbelngoaknanokldjhfhfd/app/js/vendor/underscore-min.map. Resources must be listed in the web_accessible_resources manifest key in order to be loaded by pages outside the extension.

Show HN: Hacker News Talk, a Chrome extension for real-time commentary

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