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Productivity
real-time chat extension
SHOW HN2013
48points
11comments
#526of 1,739 in 2013
Top 31%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
2 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Privacy: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 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
Good job and useful real-time idea
From 2 comments
Good job, but I have one small suggestion: the name colors should be seeded by the name value, so people are always the same color. That's what IRC clients do so you remember…
mappum on HNbahahahahahahaha this is going to end so well (Seriously, though, good work!)
angersock on HN
Per-article chatrooms are a nice design
From 1 comment
That's cool. I find the real-time typing quite annoying, mostly because if two or more people talk at the same time, messages that aren't completed yet get pushed to the bottom.…
Spittie on HN
Objections
Real-time typing is messy when people type at once
From 1 comment
That's cool. I find the real-time typing quite annoying, mostly because if two or more people talk at the same time, messages that aren't completed yet get pushed to the bottom.…
Spittie on HN
Extension permissions are broad and alarming
From 1 comment
I know it's been discussed before, but I so wish Chrome Extensions for use on specific sites didn't need to ask for permissions like "Access your data on all websites" and…
petercooper on HN
Extension failed to load with a resource error
From 1 comment
It's not working for me. I get: Denying load of chrome-extension://hhelddnkhfpbelngoaknanokldjhfhfd/app/js/vendor/underscore-min.map. Resources must be listed in the…
StavrosK on HN
Requests
Firefox version
From 1 comment
That's cool. I find the real-time typing quite annoying, mostly because if two or more people talk at the same time, messages that aren't completed yet get pushed to the bottom.…
Spittie on HN
Seed name colors by username
From 1 comment
Good job, but I have one small suggestion: the name colors should be seeded by the name value, so people are always the same color. That's what IRC clients do so you remember…
mappum on HN
Publish source code
From 1 comment
Is the source code available for this?
hanley on HN
Questions
Is the source code available?
From 2 comments
Is the source code available for this?
hanley on HNChrome extensions are just HTML/JavaScript/CSS so there should always be source available. Sometimes it is obfuscated, although that is not the case for this extension. You can…
jaredsohn on HN