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Join the News.YC group on Chatterous
http://www.chatterous.com/landing/hnyc/
Passcode: hcker
Join the Hacker News group on Chatterous for a live chat. For best experience use GTalk.
- vegashacker 19y agoWhat's the username?
- jorgeortiz85 19y agoYou should create an account.
- PStamatiou 19y agospeaking of which, there should be a 24/7 IRC room for YC. something like #hackernews on freenode?
- arasakik 19y agoThe Chatterous group is 24/7 as well.
- PStamatiou 19y agoAm I wrong to assume that in the chatterous web chat, everyone in the group receives the updates by default, either be it SMS etc? I don't want to use it too much if I feel like people will get annoyed by getting my every update. To me it seems like reinventing the wheel for chat in this case. Yes, chatterous is great for getting a group of friends together to plan something like a dinner and have all the updates go out to everyone.. but for a regular web chat I don't see how this is any better than IRC.
- arasakik 19y ago".. but for a regular web chat I don't see how this is any better than IRC." I can connect to Chatterous rooms using the ways I already communicate - IM, SMS, Email, etc. I don't use IRC often (and neither do most people, I suspect). For the die-hard IRC user, Chatterous is probably not that different. For people that want an easier way to chat in real-time without changing existing user behavior, it's great.
- PStamatiou 19y agoAlright, I guess I'm just biased having been an IRC junkie in the day. Also, is it just me or is there a noticeable lag? although that might just be gtalk to the website
- arasakik 19y agoIt's our polling interval. We can probably change that.
- wheels 19y agoFreenode is still one of the primary hubs for a lot of open source action, so for those of us that are linked up to open source communities, an IRC channel is similarly convenient.
- wheels 19y agoEasy enough. I'm in.
- iamwil 19y agoI think it's #startups (or #startup) on freenode.
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- lyime 19y agovery cool service, I can just imagine so many uses for this.
- ghiotion 19y agoWhy make me enter my full name? I hate, hate, hate giving out my name on Web sites that don't need it. My internet identity is my username.
- ajkirwin 19y agoI think I like this service. I prefer IRC more, simply because of how I can make IRC look. (I like my chat clients plain and simple). But I will definately use it.