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FlyByChat, iteration 2 -- feedback please

11 points by bdr 16y ago

arram 16y ago
Things I'd appreciate: #Different colors for people in chat (just assign randomly from a few distinct colors, or let people choose) #Bold the chat from my Facebook friends #Let me tab complete names #have it beep when someone uses my name and make that line visually distinct.
Vistico 16y ago
Dude the website is bad ass.. you did a good job with getting us in asap now make it sticky and get a hooker in there! (figuratively speaking of course)
bdr 16y ago
All the big feedback from my prior submission[1] has been implemented. I'm trying to make sure the site is good enough before making the first big marketing push, because chat obviously has the chicken-and-egg problem in a big way. Right now I think it's ready, but would love to get some more eyes on it before proceeding. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1447160 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1447160 . I haven't been able to repro the Chrome sizing issue -- please let me know if you're able to.
- arram 16y ago
  When my chat partner disconnects, I shouldn't have to exit the window to get the big GO button again - it should either show automatically, or just start looking for another partner immediately.
  - bdr 16y ago
    The idea is that you might want to copy/paste or otherwise review your chat log.
    - aidenn0 16y ago
      Then draw a separator or something, don't make me click
vegashacker 16y ago
It wasn't obvious to me how to start chatting with someone without creating an account.
xenthral 16y ago
Couldn't make the big "WELCOME TO FLYBYCHAT" left pane go away, so it felt like there was a lot of screen real state that was left unused. Also the HN lurker I was chatting with raised a good point: there should be different colors for "You" and "Them", would make it much easier to see the flow of the conversation. EDIT: Would also be easy to add a horizontal bar, to track the last portion of chat you saw before you switched tabs/removed focus from browser
spot 16y ago
you should make links (sent over chat) clickable
bosch 16y ago
If I just click the Go button without signing in it just spins for a while (~5 mins) so I shut it down. Not sure if this means you have to be signed in or not. Using Firefox 3.7 nightly 20100627

11 points by bdr 16y ago

arram 16y ago

Things I'd appreciate: #Different colors for people in chat (just assign randomly from a few distinct colors, or let people choose) #Bold the chat from my Facebook friends #Let me tab complete names #have it beep when someone uses my name and make that line visually distinct.

Vistico 16y ago

Dude the website is bad ass.. you did a good job with getting us in asap now make it sticky and get a hooker in there! (figuratively speaking of course)

bdr 16y ago

All the big feedback from my prior submission[1] has been implemented. I'm trying to make sure the site is good enough before making the first big marketing push, because chat obviously has the chicken-and-egg problem in a big way. Right now I think it's ready, but would love to get some more eyes on it before proceeding. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1447160 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1447160 . I haven't been able to repro the Chrome sizing issue -- please let me know if you're able to.

arram 16y ago
When my chat partner disconnects, I shouldn't have to exit the window to get the big GO button again - it should either show automatically, or just start looking for another partner immediately.
- bdr 16y ago
  The idea is that you might want to copy/paste or otherwise review your chat log.
  - aidenn0 16y ago
    Then draw a separator or something, don't make me click

vegashacker 16y ago

It wasn't obvious to me how to start chatting with someone without creating an account.

xenthral 16y ago

Couldn't make the big "WELCOME TO FLYBYCHAT" left pane go away, so it felt like there was a lot of screen real state that was left unused. Also the HN lurker I was chatting with raised a good point: there should be different colors for "You" and "Them", would make it much easier to see the flow of the conversation. EDIT: Would also be easy to add a horizontal bar, to track the last portion of chat you saw before you switched tabs/removed focus from browser

spot 16y ago

you should make links (sent over chat) clickable

bosch 16y ago

If I just click the Go button without signing in it just spins for a while (~5 mins) so I shut it down. Not sure if this means you have to be signed in or not. Using Firefox 3.7 nightly 20100627