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IRC like public chat for any website, without involving the site owner

• zzo38computer 6y ago
  Can I use actual IRC, rather than needing a browser extension? I don't use Chrome, and would like to use my own IRC client instead.
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  • Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
    Even if we use our IRC client, I wonder whether it would be possible without any form of browser extension as we need to get the URL of the web page on the 'browser'.
    • zzo38computer 6y ago
      It is possible, although a browser extension could still be provided for convenience. One way would be to add a command to the IRC server which will determine what channel to use for a given URL, I suppose. The user can then copy it from the browser by themself, if they do not have the browser extension to do that automatically.
• Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
  I came across this because it was posted a solution for the need gap - 'YouTube like public chat for ecommerce websites'[1] on my problem validation platform. But it seems to suffer from 'Chicken and Egg' problem like any other network based tool. Wanted to pick the minds of HN users on how that can be addressed and if there is any other alternatives for the need gap itself? [1]https://needgap.com/problems/141-youtube-like-public-chat-for-ecommerce-websites-chat-ecommerce https://needgap.com/problems/141-youtube-like-public-chat-fo...