Wall of Text
Learning and science
websocket demo
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How HN took it
4 positive, 18 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score +0.02.
Execution: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fun and nostalgic concept, similar to early Facebook wall
From 1 comment
My first thought was "vintage Facebook" actually — back when it was called _the_ Facebook and open only to university students. The wall was a beautifully chaotic thing,…
neoncontrails on HN
Code is succinct and instructive
From 1 comment
Seeing the URL end in .php gave me the wrong impression - I thought it was running a separate PHP interpreter for each connection... which is naturally insane, and why I was…
exikyut on HN
Objections
Site was abused with slurs and illegal content and taken offline
From 2 comments
From the site: > I've had to take this project offline! > I was expecting it to be abused and violated, but was completely naive to what the internet people were capable of. >…
squarefoot on HNIllegal content uploaded via my naive websocket implementation. I thought it was best to turn it off than fix while it was "hot".
g105b on HN
Insecure implementation accepted arbitrary input and rendered HTML
From 2 comments
let me see. I open a page and text that other people enter in real time is rendered as html on that page? what could possibly go wrong.
jvanderbot on HNhey, with web sockets I am a noob. I'm generally quite ok with internet security as a concept, but I was massively naive in my implementation here, and one very obvious…
g105b on HN
Requests
Add accounts or limit access to real users
From 1 comment
Seeing the URL end in .php gave me the wrong impression - I thought it was running a separate PHP interpreter for each connection... which is naturally insane, and why I was…
exikyut on HN
Bring the site back online
From 2 comments
Seeing the URL end in .php gave me the wrong impression - I thought it was running a separate PHP interpreter for each connection... which is naturally insane, and why I was…
exikyut on HNOk, fair enough :)
Aeolun on HN
Questions
What was the site like before it was taken down?
From 2 comments
Anyone who saw what it was before it was taken down (which is just what I saw when I opened it now for the first time), what exactly was it?
can16358p on HNAlso curious. I thought the last thing up would be a screenshot.
joshspankit on HN
Why was it taken down and what illegal content was posted?
From 2 comments
Why was it taken down?
unbanned on HNwhat sort of illegal content…
throwaway127596 on HN
Alternatives named
yourworldoftext.com
From 2 comments
Is this perchance inspired by https://www.yourworldoftext.com/? I remember reading an interesting technical writeup when that went out -- it was early days for websocket. It…
sanqui on HNThis looks similar to yourworldoftext[0] that was posted a few weeks ago. Very cool. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29576394
pjot on HN
300 Lines shared canvas
From 1 comment
I worked on a similar little project about 10 years ago. We called it 300 Lines. It was a shared public canvas which displayed only the last 300 lines drawn. We used socket.io to…
mikehall314 on HN
gorilla/websocket chat example
From 1 comment
While I didn't get to see what the site originally looked like. If it was just 'submit anonymous comments that websocket subscribers can see', there's a golang example leveraging…
scrose on HN