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Show HN: Chat in a virtual world - Node Knockout entry
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- timjahn 15y agoThis makes me second guess how much I'm valuing Facebook at this point in my life. I took one look at your app and told myself there's no way you're getting access to my Facebook data. Damn you Zuckerberg...
- m1 15y agoUrgh, sign in with facebook? Pretty cool otherwise.
- JonLim 15y agoThis was my reservation as well. I'm pretty stingy about who I give Facebook access to.
- CyruzDraxs 15y agoWas going to do Twitter also, but didn't have enough time.
- draebek 15y agoI was actually confused by this: it wasn't obvious to me that I had to sign in with Facebook to use this site. I actually tried clicking off it and using the cursor keys to move... something, anything, before I decided that signing in with Facebook must be a requirement. I am not used to sites that require me to sign in to Facebook to use them.
- CyruzDraxs 15y agoAscii cocks, yay. >.>
- robinduckett 15y agoDoesn't work.
- CyruzDraxs 15y agoWhat about it doesn't work?
- sirclueless 15y agoApplication Error. Check your logs for details.
- harpastum 15y agoSorta similar to an experiment I made a while ago [1]. I do think there's something to spatially-oriented chat, but it doesn't seem to get much traction [1] http://openforum.samwarmuth.com/n/newmap http://openforum.samwarmuth.com/n/newmap -- You're a dot. Move using the arrow keys, type+enter to talk. You can click on stuff to build walls. (N.B. doesn't work on firefox)
- cmars 15y ago[f] Sign in with Facebook closes tab
- CyruzDraxs 15y agoThat's kind of the whole point of the app.
- cmars 15y agoOk... but I won't log into these kind of FB-connected sites before seeing a demo of what it does and what it will do w/ my FB account & contacts. Needs a video or a sandbox or something.
- chrischen 15y agoIt can't do anything with your facebook account or contacts. It just gets your friends list as a list of facebook user ids, and your name and other public info. EDIT: Despite the down votes, my statement is still perfectly true.
- CyruzDraxs 15y agoIt actually doesn't get anything but public info, which you can see in the permissions request page on Facebook. All it does is grab your name, profile photo and url. It doesn't even store anything in a database--it's all in-memory at the moment.
- joshmanders 15y agoLikewise.
- cdata 15y agoFrankly, that describes the whole Node Knockout this year. It was pretty disappointing.
- vessenes 15y agoYour loss. Using FB for SSO increases conversion rates, and takes a whole bunch of burden off app developers. It's a big win for everyone, including you, who may wish to get more cool apps per total programmer-hour in the world.
- exit 15y agoany screenshots? i don't have a fb account and am not about to set one up to try this.
- scottostler 15y agoI like the concept, and there's a lot of directions you can take it in if you want to keep working on it. Our team had a similar theme (http://psyche.cc http://psyche.cc), though we focused on images instead of text.
- lachenmayer 15y agoAwesome idea, had great fun racing other people I finally ended up talking to! Some qualms/suggestions: - Text wrapping doesn't work properly, the text box doesn't resize with larger messages, the text just gets cut off. - If you miss a message, i.e. someone says something after the message, there is no way of looking at what they said. Some sort of history would be cool. (Maybe scroll out a list when you click on the user?) - It would be cool if you could hold down the arrow keys to move, right now the movement is one by one. To be fair, this does make races more fun! (not that big a bother at all, to be honest!) Cool idea!
- BoppreH 15y agoVery similar to http://yourworldoftext.com/ http://yourworldoftext.com/ , but that one was text only. I love the concept, but I'm more inclined to Your World of Text because of the ASCII drawings and anonymity.
- sil3ntmac 15y agoHey, I made almost the exact same thing a few months ago: http://nearish.com http://nearish.com Drop me an email at joe@nearish.com if you'd like to talk, I am interested in your solution to scaling.