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Ask HN: Anyone know of a real-time message board or one in development?
It'd be nice to just leave a message board thread open and watch as the replies are posted. Or similarly watch as comments are posted on HN and elsewhere.
The refresh is slowly being eliminated.
Thoughts?
- nolite 16y agoWhat technologies would be needed to make this happen? There was a Websockets demo yesterday, which I guess is one way..that hardly seems to be supported by any browsers in use. What else.. is Ajax polling the only other method used now?
- _harry 16y agoFacebook and Twitter and others are doing it, so the technology must be out there.
- madhouse 16y agoThere were plenty of implementations, at least on the demo level using Websockets & similar. Here's one example: http://chat.nodejs.org/ http://chat.nodejs.org/