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Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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Post by erikfiala »

nextaccountic wrote: post #8
erikfiala wrote: post #2

Hello hackers! Everchat is finally here! During the past year, we were working hard on making Everchat happen. Today, we're proud to present you with the first public version of it! We're looking forward to seeing what channels you'll create, what topics you'll talk about, and what we can improve and build to make Everchat better for you. Features in this launch: - Account creation - Your and others' profiles - Creat…

Is this something like a reddit clone?

For now yes, but we want to take a different path later on. :)

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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Post by erikfiala »

retrofuturism wrote: post #11
tomtompl wrote: post #7

The magic link to login doesnt work

The magic link invited me to log in to my EveChat account. I was disappointed to find out nobody was talking about Eve Online.

LOL we haven't noticed this :D It must've been there for a long time. Will fix that ASAP. Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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Post by Ndymium »

erikfiala wrote: post #19
ALittleLight wrote: post #16

I like the concept, here is my feedback: * Moving around is clumsy. If I'm in a channel, it's hard to know how to get back out or to the previous menus without hitting the back button. * I tried to upload a gif and it just hung without responding. Not sure if the gif ever went through but I eventually got bored of waiting. If it was working - maybe a progress bar on uploading? * Obviously spam is already a problem. T…

Thanks for the feedback! You brought up very good points and yes, we are concerned with the same problem you're bringin up. In the future, we want communities to self-police themselves, but for that, people on Everchat need adequate tools, which we haven't even start building yet. The issue of non-responsivity became apparent when someone (2 hours into launch) tried to crash the site with the unlimited title length :…

How will you prevent the site turning into another Voat / image board? Or will you embrace being a home to that type of content? They are happy to police themselves, but the result of that policing is of course representative of the most extremely racist and horrid views as they are not accepted elsewhere. And most people won't want to be associated with such content, so they will avoid the site.

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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Post by erikfiala »

geoah wrote: post #10
pcmill wrote: post #6

Your landing page does not really tell me anything about this product. Why should I join? What can you do on Everchat?

Amazing work :D Do keep it up! Couple of notes: - Loving the UI. - Home should say what is everchat, features, differentiating factors. - Peek into "popular channels" without login. - Sign up email comes from a random firebase domain, not the same as the welcome. - Haven't managed to post a comment, getting 500 on a `s?l=dataLayer` resource (chrome macOS). - Ability to enable notifications (email and/or html5) on spe…

Thanks for the feedback!

> "Loving the UI." > "Home should say what is everchat, features, differentiating factors." Will add this to our backlog. We're getting this request a lot!

> "Peek into "popular channels" without login." Same as the above

> "Sign up email comes from a random firebase domain, not the same as the welcome." Yeah we know about this, we requested a custom domain but Google is taking its time :D

> "Haven't managed to post a comment, getting 500 on a `s?l=dataLayer` resource (chrome macOS)." Don't really know what's going on here, but will look into it.

> "Ability to enable notifications (email and/or html5) on specific channels." Great idea!!!

> "A monthly or so email about new features, stats, or changes would be nice. I don't think I'd use it right now but if it managed to get traction I'd be up for it." Monthly email update is setup :)

> "Maybe: Invite only rooms? Discord style." Private channels that are accessible only for people with a token are on our roadmap. :)

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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Post by erikfiala »

kevsim wrote: post #12

Had a few issues creating a new channel: - filled in the new channel form - had to sign up - put in email. woops that was the login form. Clicked log in, email disappeared - refilled form, got email. Email says "evechat" not "everchat" - followed link. channel wasn't created, had to do it again

Thanks for the "evechat" issue lol, just fixed it.

And yeah this flow sucks. We'll be looking into it ASAP, as many people already struggled with it.

Thanks!! <3

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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Post by nextaccountic »

erikfiala wrote: post #21
nextaccountic wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this something like a reddit clone?

For now yes, but we want to take a different path later on. :)

Such as? I would like to hear about this! (Do you have it written in a blog post somewhere?)

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

_jplc wrote: post #9

> We promise never to give any of your private or personally identifiable information to 3rd parties. Promises mean nothing nowadays.

Nope, I'd like to see that claim encoded in strict legalese, along with open source code, public pentest results, and a secure way to report found security (= data breach) issues.

But the strict legalese isn't going to happen because it would only take one data breach for the company to be destroyed by lawsuits. There's always a clause in there somewhere.

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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Post by tonyjstark »

_jplc wrote: post #9

> We promise never to give any of your private or personally identifiable information to 3rd parties. Promises mean nothing nowadays.

What is the monetization for the platform? As soon as ads play a role, the promise is broken.

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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Post by erikfiala »

tonyjstark wrote: post #29
_jplc wrote: post #9

> We promise never to give any of your private or personally identifiable information to 3rd parties. Promises mean nothing nowadays.

What is the monetization for the platform? As soon as ads play a role, the promise is broken.

There will be a premium account that unlocks more features, like creation of private channels, that only people with token can get access to. :)
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