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Get Hacker News on IM, Email, SMS or the web (chatterous.com)

18 points by wwhchung ↗ HN
There is now a Chatterous group which can pipe you Y-Combinator news to GTalk, SMS or email. You can join at www.chatterous.com/hnyc_feed. To chat about topics, check out the hnyc chat group (www.chatterous.com/hnyc)

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thorax
I.e. it's a Chatterous room with an RSS bot in it using the chatterous API. So now HN is talking at me via Gtalk-- pretty neat.
kingsley_20
One of the positive aspects of this community to me is that responses are usually well-considered and (often) considerate. I worry that a near real-time response mechanism will affect the quality of discourse adversely. Or maybe I'm just getting old.
akkartik
I tried it out for a few days. It's a chat room, nothing to do with HN. It gets its share of random people typing in test messages, and the odd troll trying to get a rise out of folks. There's some networking, but not much. Zero conversation interesting to anyone outside of the 2 or 3 people participating at any time.

I suggested to the folks that they include a link back here. People seem to get there without knowing of HN.

jlees
I guess this is a side note but I dislike links that automatically sign me up to stuff. Hadn't realised I was logged in to Chatterous, nor that being logged in and visiting this link would subscribe me to the group. I guess curiosity killed my inbox.
wwhchung
Thanks for the feedback. We'll be adding a 'join' option to widgets so you don't automatically join groups when you're logged in and visit a page with a widget.
zmonteca
Very nice. I could see this going both ways: horribly annoying and inundating (recall twitter updates via IM); an awesome way to stay on top of everything that flows these channels.