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Join the News.YC group on Chatterous

24 points by jorgeortiz85 ↗ HN
http://www.chatterous.com/landing/hnyc/

Passcode: hcker

Join the Hacker News group on Chatterous for a live chat. For best experience use GTalk.

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PStamatiou
speaking of which, there should be a 24/7 IRC room for YC. something like #hackernews on freenode?
arasakik
The Chatterous group is 24/7 as well.
PStamatiou
Am I wrong to assume that in the chatterous web chat, everyone in the group receives the updates by default, either be it SMS etc? I don't want to use it too much if I feel like people will get annoyed by getting my every update.

To me it seems like reinventing the wheel for chat in this case. Yes, chatterous is great for getting a group of friends together to plan something like a dinner and have all the updates go out to everyone.. but for a regular web chat I don't see how this is any better than IRC.

arasakik
".. but for a regular web chat I don't see how this is any better than IRC."

I can connect to Chatterous rooms using the ways I already communicate - IM, SMS, Email, etc. I don't use IRC often (and neither do most people, I suspect). For the die-hard IRC user, Chatterous is probably not that different. For people that want an easier way to chat in real-time without changing existing user behavior, it's great.

PStamatiou
Alright, I guess I'm just biased having been an IRC junkie in the day. Also, is it just me or is there a noticeable lag? although that might just be gtalk to the website
arasakik
It's our polling interval. We can probably change that.
wheels
Freenode is still one of the primary hubs for a lot of open source action, so for those of us that are linked up to open source communities, an IRC channel is similarly convenient.
wheels
Easy enough. I'm in.
iamwil
I think it's #startups (or #startup) on freenode.
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lyime
very cool service, I can just imagine so many uses for this.
ghiotion
Why make me enter my full name? I hate, hate, hate giving out my name on Web sites that don't need it. My internet identity is my username.
ajkirwin
I think I like this service.

I prefer IRC more, simply because of how I can make IRC look. (I like my chat clients plain and simple).

But I will definately use it.