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I still hang out on Hotline and KDX and my friend has been running his server continuously since 2001. There are dozens of us! I also still point a dyndns dom

I still hang out on Hotline and KDX and my friend has been running his server continuously since 2001. There are dozens of us! I also still point a dyndns domain to my IP, but just for some games and stuff. However, it seems that as a society we've settled on the web browser being the de-facto interface to everything, and we all expect persistent server-side data accessible from anywhere in the world. That said, it's still my goal to make a web Hotline client... one of these days... haha

nemo44x 4y ago
That’s awesome! I did a quick search and it doesn’t seem like tracker-tracker is around anymore. What do people do there? Just old communities of people chatting, etc? Warez and mp3 were always a big draw back then but probably not relevant today. And yeah with websockets you could make a web client!
- amatecha 4y ago
  Hmm, no, but last I checked you can use hltracker.com , which someone snapped up and my friend is running the tracker server for! :) Yeah, we just idle around and occasionally chat. Activity is extremely variable. Of course, the upside is there's the trusty News area. Most posts are "hello from [old computer] I got running with [old OS]! Hotline was the best!" , and similar such nostalgic sentiments :) haha Indeed, well last I checked with WebSockets they're not legit TCP/IP sockets, so I'd still be stuck doing some kind of intermediary/proxy or something... Dunno, haven't looked into it that much yet. I don't know of any way to open a raw TCP socket in a browser, though maybe some obscure solution exists that I don't know about..