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Show HN: ChatStep - Online Group Chat

19 points by gsundeep 14y ago

saucow 14y ago
Wow. Looks pretty amazing guys. Love the bitcoin donation links. beautiful interface too; Can't wait to use it in the bitcoin community
phasevar 14y ago
Woot! I created a room. :-) https://chatstep.com/#HackerNews https://chatstep.com/#HackerNews
- yashchandra 14y ago
  I m in the room but with a different id :). looks neat.
- carlsednaoui 14y ago
  Looks amazing!
phasevar 14y ago
What's the technology behind this?
- mnazim 14y ago
  I could see the SocketIO. Would love to know more
- gsundeep 14y ago
  We use node.js and Socket.IO for the real time communication and we also run nginx to serve static content.
danvideo 14y ago
using windows 7 and chrome - can't create or join rooms edit: now realizing it's probably corporate FW related, blocking port 4000
- gsundeep 14y ago
  Hi Dan, Can you check Inspect Element -> Console and see if there are any errors being reported? Thanks!
  - danvideo 14y ago
    red X near the following... GET https://chatstep.com:4000/socket.io/1/?t=1341425107446 https://chatstep.com:4000/socket.io/1/?t=1341425107446 socket.io.js:1632 Socket.handshake socket.io.js:1632 Socket.connect socket.io.js:1671 Socket socket.io.js:1530 io.connect socket.io.js:91 (anonymous function)
    - gsundeep 14y ago
      It could be that you are on a corporate network that blocks ports like 4000. We'll get everything behind a load balancer on port 80/443 pretty soon. Sorry about that!
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mmmooo 14y ago
Please don't use obscure ports for the sockets (aka tcp:4000). 1) many corporate/etc firewalls filter these type of packets 2) my personal reaction when the browser requests access to a socket on an unusual port is "Deny". Which is just what I did, and of course then there is no notification to me that it failed or any way to create/join a room.
- danvideo 14y ago
  this sounds like the diagnosis to why I can't get it working either, though I never saw a browser request for a particular port
- gsundeep 14y ago
  We're planning to move everything behind a load balancer running on standard ports like 80 and 443. Thanks for the feedback!
thrill 14y ago
It works nicely with Ubuntu 12.04 and Chrome. The response time us fast, even with images and youtube videos. On youtube, if you paste a link such as http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=l8rxJRsINU4 http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=l8rxJRsINU4 that does a full-screen video, instead of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8rxJRsINU4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8rxJRsINU4 you don't get the embedded functionality - suggest you capture the _popup segment and remove it for consistency of display
- gsundeep 14y ago
  Thanks for letting us know. We'll fix this very soon!
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twodayslate 14y ago
Why/how is this better than web IRC?
- gsundeep 14y ago
  ChatStep has client side encryption and multimedia sharing.
  - twodayslate 14y ago
    Some web based IRC clients have this. There are a lot to chose from as well http://twodayslate.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/web-based-irc-clients/ http://twodayslate.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/web-based-irc-cl...
Nux 14y ago
secure, beautiful; where can I download it from?
alainbryden 14y ago
Great site. We will always have http://petscollect.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/funny-white-kitten.jpg http://petscollect.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/funny-whit... ;)
- gsundeep 14y ago
  Thanks! ;)
itiztv 14y ago
Quite captivating. Is is possible to embed it on my website?

19 points by gsundeep 14y ago

Wow. Looks pretty amazing guys. Love the bitcoin donation links. beautiful interface too; Can't wait to use it in the bitcoin community

phasevar 14y ago

Woot! I created a room. :-) https://chatstep.com/#HackerNews https://chatstep.com/#HackerNews

yashchandra 14y ago
I m in the room but with a different id :). looks neat.
carlsednaoui 14y ago
Looks amazing!

phasevar 14y ago

What's the technology behind this?

mnazim 14y ago
I could see the SocketIO. Would love to know more
gsundeep 14y ago
We use node.js and Socket.IO for the real time communication and we also run nginx to serve static content.

danvideo 14y ago

using windows 7 and chrome - can't create or join rooms edit: now realizing it's probably corporate FW related, blocking port 4000

gsundeep 14y ago
Hi Dan, Can you check Inspect Element -> Console and see if there are any errors being reported? Thanks!
- danvideo 14y ago
  red X near the following... GET https://chatstep.com:4000/socket.io/1/?t=1341425107446 https://chatstep.com:4000/socket.io/1/?t=1341425107446 socket.io.js:1632 Socket.handshake socket.io.js:1632 Socket.connect socket.io.js:1671 Socket socket.io.js:1530 io.connect socket.io.js:91 (anonymous function)
  - gsundeep 14y ago
    It could be that you are on a corporate network that blocks ports like 4000. We'll get everything behind a load balancer on port 80/443 pretty soon. Sorry about that!

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mmmooo 14y ago

Please don't use obscure ports for the sockets (aka tcp:4000). 1) many corporate/etc firewalls filter these type of packets 2) my personal reaction when the browser requests access to a socket on an unusual port is "Deny". Which is just what I did, and of course then there is no notification to me that it failed or any way to create/join a room.

danvideo 14y ago
this sounds like the diagnosis to why I can't get it working either, though I never saw a browser request for a particular port
gsundeep 14y ago
We're planning to move everything behind a load balancer running on standard ports like 80 and 443. Thanks for the feedback!

thrill 14y ago

It works nicely with Ubuntu 12.04 and Chrome. The response time us fast, even with images and youtube videos. On youtube, if you paste a link such as http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=l8rxJRsINU4 http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=l8rxJRsINU4 that does a full-screen video, instead of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8rxJRsINU4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8rxJRsINU4 you don't get the embedded functionality - suggest you capture the _popup segment and remove it for consistency of display

gsundeep 14y ago
Thanks for letting us know. We'll fix this very soon!

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twodayslate 14y ago

Why/how is this better than web IRC?

gsundeep 14y ago
ChatStep has client side encryption and multimedia sharing.
- twodayslate 14y ago
  Some web based IRC clients have this. There are a lot to chose from as well http://twodayslate.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/web-based-irc-clients/ http://twodayslate.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/web-based-irc-cl...

Nux 14y ago

secure, beautiful; where can I download it from?

alainbryden 14y ago

Great site. We will always have http://petscollect.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/funny-white-kitten.jpg http://petscollect.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/funny-whit... ;)

gsundeep 14y ago
Thanks! ;)

itiztv 14y ago

Quite captivating. Is is possible to embed it on my website?