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I'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 notic

I'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 ago
I 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 ago
I 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 ago
  I 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 ago
    You 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.)

ryandvm 17y ago

I 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 ago

I 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 ago
I 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 ago
  You 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.)