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Gee, thanks! We were thinking that we'd allow other websites to take a url and embed it within their site or collaborative area. Do you think that will help? Y

by ad93611 14y ago

Gee, thanks! We were thinking that we'd allow other websites to take a url and embed it within their site or collaborative area. Do you think that will help? Yeah, I hear you about file attachments :)

grey-area 14y ago
A great and simple idea and a service that I think a lot of small companies would actually pay for if you execute it well. The front page of HN will be a good load test... However I'd also be concerned about security - if you're trying to sell this as a service, you'd need to password protect groups somehow and ideally serve on https. Can't see this on the site right now but presumably you're planning to offer this? Perhaps this is just an experiment, but having no guarantees like this would not reassure me - ideally chats should be namespaced too so that there are no issues with collisions of chat room names. There's no way I'd type anything useful into a chat like this without basic security in place and being reassured about how the data was stored and deleted. Chats are just too prone to leaking information because they're so informal, so it's even more important than email in a way. In fact I'd probably prefer to buy the software and run it on my server to be sure about that if actually using it.
- ad93611 14y ago
  Thanks for your thoughts. Yes, we would provide https, password protected groups and a nice dashboard to view the transcripts.
arethuza 14y ago
Could you allow verbatim text for code as well? Keep up the good work - it really is pretty engaging at the moment.
jmathai 14y ago
Embedding it within a site isn't as useful for me, personally. Possibly for others. Perhaps the ability to pay for a permanent URL (or chat room ID) so a team can bookmark it for times when they need to chat. Or a URL I can easily send to someone without having to always "register" a new one. I can see that being part of a paid tier (along with TLD mapping, UI customization, etc).

by ad93611 14y ago

grey-area 14y ago

A great and simple idea and a service that I think a lot of small companies would actually pay for if you execute it well. The front page of HN will be a good load test... However I'd also be concerned about security - if you're trying to sell this as a service, you'd need to password protect groups somehow and ideally serve on https. Can't see this on the site right now but presumably you're planning to offer this? Perhaps this is just an experiment, but having no guarantees like this would not reassure me - ideally chats should be namespaced too so that there are no issues with collisions of chat room names. There's no way I'd type anything useful into a chat like this without basic security in place and being reassured about how the data was stored and deleted. Chats are just too prone to leaking information because they're so informal, so it's even more important than email in a way. In fact I'd probably prefer to buy the software and run it on my server to be sure about that if actually using it.

ad93611 14y ago
Thanks for your thoughts. Yes, we would provide https, password protected groups and a nice dashboard to view the transcripts.

arethuza 14y ago

Could you allow verbatim text for code as well? Keep up the good work - it really is pretty engaging at the moment.

jmathai 14y ago

Embedding it within a site isn't as useful for me, personally. Possibly for others. Perhaps the ability to pay for a permanent URL (or chat room ID) so a team can bookmark it for times when they need to chat. Or a URL I can easily send to someone without having to always "register" a new one. I can see that being part of a paid tier (along with TLD mapping, UI customization, etc).