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Show HN: echoplexus, anonymous chat, collaborative REPL, and whiteboard

7 points by arcameron 13y ago

arcameron 13y ago
[edit: here's a direct link to the demo http://chat.echoplex.us/ http://chat.echoplex.us/] Hi guys, just thought I'd showcase the project I'm currently working on. If you like it, I'd love it if you contributed @: https://github.com/qq99/echoplexus https://github.com/qq99/echoplexus There are around 2-3 dedicated contributors at the moment. We've got a lot of basic functionality down, but there's still much to do! A little teaser of hopeful future functionality: - web/video chat with WebRTC - more languages in the REPL - more polish all around - better embedding of media with more options - see github issues page for more of the future vision
jdc 13y ago
Nice design and slick UI. Now here's come criticism =). - I don't think / is a good name for the default channel. - Why can't I see the user list in the Code and Draw views? - Sync Missed is a confusing label for a button. It appears to add N lines from the server chat log to the client chat log, so consider calling it something more descriptive (like Get Old Logs). - I'd like to be privately invite a user to a channel. - A public channel list would be nice. - It would be neat to be able to draw an overlay on the Code view and do annotations.
- arcameron 13y ago
  I'll add most of these as issues that we'll get to work on next :) Very awesome idea with the overlay on _Code_ view, I love it >- I don't think / is a good name for the default channel. Not sure if I can do much about this one -- that's simply the default route. I wanted to make it super easy to create a channel, so anything in the URL slug becomes the name of the channel. Visiting http://chat.echoplex.us/hackernews http://chat.echoplex.us/hackernews would make you join the channel named "/hackernews". > - Why can't I see the user list in the Code and Draw views? A pretty big UI deficiency atm, still working out the better way to present all the data > - Sync Missed is a confusing label for a button. It appears to add N lines from the server chat log to the client chat log, so consider calling it something more descriptive (like Get Old Logs). Indeed, it's set to sync 10 at a time to prevent flooding the client. However, maybe a smarter idea would be to sync in an infinite scroll fashion as well

7 points by arcameron 13y ago

[edit: here's a direct link to the demo http://chat.echoplex.us/ http://chat.echoplex.us/] Hi guys, just thought I'd showcase the project I'm currently working on. If you like it, I'd love it if you contributed @: https://github.com/qq99/echoplexus https://github.com/qq99/echoplexus There are around 2-3 dedicated contributors at the moment. We've got a lot of basic functionality down, but there's still much to do! A little teaser of hopeful future functionality: - web/video chat with WebRTC - more languages in the REPL - more polish all around - better embedding of media with more options - see github issues page for more of the future vision

jdc 13y ago

Nice design and slick UI. Now here's come criticism =). - I don't think / is a good name for the default channel. - Why can't I see the user list in the Code and Draw views? - Sync Missed is a confusing label for a button. It appears to add N lines from the server chat log to the client chat log, so consider calling it something more descriptive (like Get Old Logs). - I'd like to be privately invite a user to a channel. - A public channel list would be nice. - It would be neat to be able to draw an overlay on the Code view and do annotations.

arcameron 13y ago
I'll add most of these as issues that we'll get to work on next :) Very awesome idea with the overlay on _Code_ view, I love it >- I don't think / is a good name for the default channel. Not sure if I can do much about this one -- that's simply the default route. I wanted to make it super easy to create a channel, so anything in the URL slug becomes the name of the channel. Visiting http://chat.echoplex.us/hackernews http://chat.echoplex.us/hackernews would make you join the channel named "/hackernews". > - Why can't I see the user list in the Code and Draw views? A pretty big UI deficiency atm, still working out the better way to present all the data > - Sync Missed is a confusing label for a button. It appears to add N lines from the server chat log to the client chat log, so consider calling it something more descriptive (like Get Old Logs). Indeed, it's set to sync 10 at a time to prevent flooding the client. However, maybe a smarter idea would be to sync in an infinite scroll fashion as well