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hurricaneSlider
This site appears to be suffering the HN Hug of Death. Anyone find a cached version?
BlueSialia
Yes, hurricaneSlider. Your hug is very tight.
stcredzero
Are there any statistics as to how big the HN Hug of Death is?
andoni_amr
Yes, it's down, and the games are served at the same direction so, no games by now...
monkpit
"Game bot" is apparently an overloaded term. I was under the impression that this was going to be about testing or ai/ml.
pmontra
The part on the custom keyboard is interesting. It's Telegram's way of doing FB Messenger's menus. If chats are browsers and bots are web sites and the output in the chat is HTML (and the bot API is what?), I wonder if there will be a standardization effort or if we'll have to deal with a fragmented and incompatible world. Ok, there are cross platform tools but with such a different UI/UX it can't end well. I definitely look forward to a common subset of functionality and API calls.

Or we just wait one or two years. This wave is going to be much faster than the web and the smartphones ones. I guess it will end soon in the usual 90-5-2-1-1-1 distribution, especially if WhatsApp opens to bots with the very same API and UI of Messenger (FB+WA are the #1 chat in more than 80% of the countries.)

thomasfl
Totally agree. A standard format format for messages sendt from bots that covered the different Call-To-Action buttons FB Messenger has, would make it much easier to create alternative chat clients. Like for instance embedable web clients.
berryg
HTML 5... I was immediately thinking about Elm and creating great, reliable games.