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Tell HN: Check out my little app
- bensummers 17y agoI'm afraid I didn't read the front page carefully enough, then got very confused after creating a chat room and clicking the Chatify button. Eventually I noticed the bar at the bottom of the screen, expanded it and saw the chat, but it was only after returning to the home page and reading the description again that I realised why it was working the way it did. Works nicely with a lovely clean look.
- ryandvm 17y agoI had the same problem. I thought I should be in a chat room but couldn't figure out what was going on until I saw the light gray on white stuff at the bottom of the screen. I like the idea though. It's basically a chat version of Google's SideWiki. Disclaimer: I wrote a simple group chat myself (http://www.yakeze.com/chat/hackernews/ http://www.yakeze.com/chat/hackernews/) before I found TinyChat (http://tinychat.com/ http://tinychat.com/).
- dbz 17y agoI agree in the aspect that the creator should create an arrow or something after clicking "Chatify" button which points down to the chat and says something like "Pull Up". Also it would be nice for instead of "Guest182" I could see "You" by default. (I understand I could edit it; however, I'm guessing everyone would then see 'You'.) Also maybe an option to view time/date stamps- and not to view them. Possibly a feature to print chats? Also when you open it you don't have to click in the chat box before typing. (You could just start typing and then hit enter.) Also you may want to consider a membership service to keep chatrooms longer than a week even if people don't use them. Just a thought. Well that's my two cents as of now. However, for the review: The App seems nice. Elegant in design, but doesn't seem to work. So overall- it'd be nice in my opinion- if it worked.
- jmonegro 17y agoI will definitely take those into consideration. I'll adding message explaining how to use the chat window. I'll also extend the duration of the chatroom to a month.
- dbz 17y agoYou should also keep the deletion after a week if it isn't used in the first week. (That way if people make a bunch they don't steal resources from you.)
- niyazpk 17y agoHN chat room: http://chatifier.heroku.com/hackernews http://chatifier.heroku.com/hackernews I think there should be an option to chat without installing the bookmarklet.
- MrMatt 17y agoJust click on the bookmarklet.
- oscardelben 17y agoIt was hard for me to notice the open chat button.
- arch_hunter 17y agoTo get into a chat you have to drag the little bar at the bottum of the page up to expose a window that you can chat in.
- mikeyur 17y agoSame - and it only seems to work on certain sites. I can't get it to open up on HN.
- oscardelben 17y agoIt appears to run only in websites with jquery
- jmonegro 17y agoThe bookmarklet loads jQuery, so the websites don't need to have it on.
- oscardelben 17y agoI think that it only works in websites with jquery?
- oscardelben 17y ago<a href="javascript:alert('vulnerability found')">click here</a> This is working, but I suppose it shouldn't
- niyazpk 17y agoIs there some way to password protect chat rooms?
- jmonegro 17y agoBy the way, what I built was a simple wrapper for the chat and real-time services offered by drop.io
- scorpion032 17y agoI like it. Its a good idea. I like to know about the technical details of it as well.
- jmonegro 17y agoIt's using standard XMPP, but, really, I just built a wrapper around drop.io's real-time API.
- jrnkntl 17y agoI find this more interesting than the idea itself :) So everytime someone 'creates' a chatroom it actually creates a drop.io and uses the chatroom associated with that drop.io? FYI: I have asked the above to jmonegro in the chat: "yes, it's built around their streaming api. but the drops are password protected by a hashed function, so they aren't publicly available"
- uggedal 17y agoReminds me of _why's hoodwink.d.
- jmonegro 17y agoI fixed many bugs - it should work on HN and most other sites as well.
- jroes 17y agoBookmarklet doesn't work for me in Chrome.
- sucuri2 17y agoVery good idea and app, but I keep getting internal server error every other click. You might want to check your server settings and logs for 503's...
- jmonegro 17y agoThat usually means that the room does not exist. I haven't quite worked on the error pages.
- Kilimanjaro 17y agoBookmarklet explained: if not jquery: load jquery body prepend(drop_io_script_tag)
- Kilimanjaro 17y agoGood idea, but it would be better if we could just create chatrooms on they fly for every conceivable web page we visit. Say I am on google.com and I click on the chat bookmarklet (or jetpack, or extension), it should be able to create a public chat for that url (or any) and start chatting right away.
- Kilimanjaro 17y agoIf drop.io has an API you could try this: - shorten any url with goo.gl and get only the uri.path - create the chatroom in your bookmarklet as: http://drop.io/chat_{shorten}/remote_chat_bar.js - profit?
- jmonegro 17y agoThere are already other services that do this.
- Raphael 17y agoAdd padding to the bottom of the page so that it is not obscured by the floating chat portion.