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14 points by ignasheahy ↗ HN
Hello HN,

I want to share something that I worked on for quite a while as my side project - www.heahy.com an IRC like chat where you can share various media and even record yourself (using web MediaRecorder api). Here is a thread with short explanation on how it works: https://www.heahy.com/channel/homepage/thread/3900adb9e441a09abc757461

I am looking for any feedback and if you have any ideas, advice or questions I am eager to hear it here or on heahy!

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caryd
Looks good. I can't post or reply though.

What is your plan for moderation? Open forums are a breeding ground for bots and dirty content.

Also, how do you pronounce it?

ignasheahy
Oh, that's very strange - do you get an error when you click Send?

Regarding pronunciation, well umm to be fair what I did was look for free 5 symbol .com domain name and found this one. I don't know how people will pronounce it. I usually say hi: hi:

ignasheahy
Regarding moderation - this is of course the most difficult question. I have a primitive tool to delete user and all its posts with a single click. I also don't allow TOR traffic. Possibly in the future no proxies too. Each channel owner can moderate and ban whoever they need to, either just the user or its IP address if he/she comes back (right now it's very easy to create a new user, just clear the cookie and you have it). Of course website must be somewhat popular to attract that crowd. I hope that in the beginning these tools will be enough. On the other hand dirty content won't necessarily be moderated if it's in a dirty channel and it's not illegal.
alko4141
Looks interesting. The borders and all additional info for short text messages seems a bit too much.
russdpale
Free speech website is usually just dog whistle for invitations to racists and other internet nazi's. What is the plan for moderation? I'm not that interested in unmoderated forums.
ignasheahy
Hi, thanks for the question. This is of course a headache for me, when I started I just worked on the concept that I thought would be fun to have for online entertainment. Obviously as a single person I can't moderate everything so even if I would like to do strong centralized moderation it's not really possible. Also I believe in free speech and that's by definition means allowing people to express their opinion even if you don't like it. Moderation will be achieved by the owners and moderators of each channel. You can also hide posts or all posts by a particular user yourself. I also do have some tools to ban IP and users from the whole site or delete all of their posts in case of spam or posting illegal content. I hope that will be enough. Right now it's not really a worry because there are no users so I will focus on that :)