This should definitely be a feature. Also, when somebody posts it scrolls down to the bottom. Sometimes the bottom half of the window showing the chat turns black and blocks out the text in opera on mac.
One neat thing would be what you would expect of a IRC client: when you hit <tab> it auto completes the nickname. That would improve actual discussions.
you need to re-evaluate how you are handling characters. you aren't escaping and encoding properly. there is no point in just smashing the little bugs that people bring up because it will still leave other things open. time to re-eval.
infinte rooms. so you just go to twitch.me/foobar and send other people that link. You're chatting with just those people.
Sure, you could host node_chat yourself, but a) then you have to host node_chat yourself, and b) if you found yourself in a situation where you wanted 2 rooms open at once, you'd have to start up another instance of node_chat.
If someone types an extended string of unbroken characters, you should break that string for them. If you don't, the horizontal autoscroll bar appears and actually blocks the 1 most recent comment.
Unless you've fixed a XSS bug in the hour since it was posted here, kudos on being the first Node.js chat site I've seen like this that was not vulnerable to XSS discoverable within ten seconds.
I think I would be more impressed if this used WebSockets or something. How many Node chat apps have we seen? .. Actually, how many AJAX chat apps have we seen? I'd like to see a different network project, or at least one that uses sockets instead of AJAX polling ..
Interesting because injecting script tags shows them properly escaped but also seems to be evaluating them. Not sure how both can happen at the same time.
I got a series of "lol" popup dialogs, then was pushed out of the room and returned to Hacker News. I was fairly frightened by this turn of events and won't return using my normal browser without some assurances that I'm not going to be victimized. I guess I'll fire up a virgin firefox profile and try some more.
On the user interface side, it would make sense if any line starting with "/" was interpreted as a command (legit or not). Otherwise, you'll have a lot of "/help" and so forth in the channels. Especially since "/print" is a valid command.
Update: Not sure, but I think someone has now injected some JS which causes everyone else in the channel to continuously spam it with the word "crash". Good times...
However, your restrictions on names are too strict. I should be able to use the name 話筒. Nice that I can use chinese characters in the chat room name though.
Do you have any intention to monetise this? If so, do you have any ideas you'd be willing to share?
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[ 2.1 ms ] story [ 112 ms ] threadhttp://twich.me/any_room_name or http://2wi.ch/any_room_name
Works on iOS and Android too.
Comments and feedback appreciated.
very cool and thought provoking. BTW, I was "foo". :)
Feature request: When I log out & come back to a room, the conversation should still be there.
edit: interesting, someone just downvoted a bunch of comments here. HN has grown large and attractive to idjits. I upvoted the zeros back to ones.
Thing is twich rooms don't hold any history. it works more like throwaway chatrooms atm.
Persistent rooms - I'm strongly considering implementing down the road.
You leaning towards open sourcing it or selling access to chat servers?
Here's my clone with a shared jukebox: http://github.com/akkartik/node_chat
Sure, you could host node_chat yourself, but a) then you have to host node_chat yourself, and b) if you found yourself in a situation where you wanted 2 rooms open at once, you'd have to start up another instance of node_chat.
and post the link to get others chatting with you. it's getting too crowded in the main room.
But, unfortunately if you go to this link...
(had to stick it in code block because HN auto marks it as spam)How about you build one?
heaps of people have injected js too
heaps of people have injected js too
On the user interface side, it would make sense if any line starting with "/" was interpreted as a command (legit or not). Otherwise, you'll have a lot of "/help" and so forth in the channels. Especially since "/print" is a valid command.
Update: Not sure, but I think someone has now injected some JS which causes everyone else in the channel to continuously spam it with the word "crash". Good times...
However, your restrictions on names are too strict. I should be able to use the name 話筒. Nice that I can use chinese characters in the chat room name though.
Do you have any intention to monetise this? If so, do you have any ideas you'd be willing to share?