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Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

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Re: Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

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Post by worldexplorer »

effingwewt wrote: post #40

I love this. I still speak fondly of the early days of netlfix, when it first got into streaming on the 360. You could invite an xbox live party to watch movies on Netflix. It had a border you could enable that made it look like a theatre screen with seats, with your live avatars sitting in them, a la Mystery Science Theatre. There was nothing quite like being in a chat party watching movies together. You could talk…

Hey is it working for you? After pasting netflix/youtube video link when I click on 'Create' nothing happens.

Re: Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

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Post by MivLives »

rdlw wrote: post #148
MivLives wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I actually helped make a clone of it for my final college project. Since then the cocnept has sort of died. I'm a little surprised it's not something that Spotify did more with. I know they have a colistening feature but I have yet to have anyone want to attempt that. As far as I can tell you need to link up by Facebook to even attempt that.

You can colisten to somebody's Spotify through Discord. Sadly it's a pretty obscure feature no one uses much, but it's worked well the couple of times I've tried it.

It's not as easy as dropping a link in a server and saying, hey come checkout my turntable room. I know that some voice chats have a music bot that works similarly for youtube though.

Re: Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

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Post by l1am0 »

worldexplorer wrote: post #201
effingwewt wrote: post #40

I love this. I still speak fondly of the early days of netlfix, when it first got into streaming on the 360. You could invite an xbox live party to watch movies on Netflix. It had a border you could enable that made it look like a theatre screen with seats, with your live avatars sitting in them, a la Mystery Science Theatre. There was nothing quite like being in a chat party watching movies together. You could talk…

Hey is it working for you? After pasting netflix/youtube video link when I click on 'Create' nothing happens.

Would you be so kind and send me a screencast of what you are doing? For me it works, but I would like to fix your problem!

bingetogether@simon-frey.eu

Re: Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

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Post by l1am0 »

lsv1 wrote: post #204

You should get Google Analytics installed, and AdSense ads... at the least.

No I do not want analytics. I use the privacy friendly matomo for that.

Ads are planed, but I would like to go with another path than google as well. Maybe some movie sponsors :D

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Post by l1am0 »

jmckib wrote: post #196

I couldn't get it to work. When I click "Join movie party" it just opens another tab of the party page with a timestamp in the url. Also there appears to be a timezone issue? I have to input a time an hour ahead of what I actually want.

Was that a youtube link? That is fixed now.

Still working on the timezone. Some browsers are doing problems here.

If the problem still persists, would you be so kind and sending me a screencast on how the site behaves to: bingetogether@simon-frey.eu

Thanks so much!

Re: Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

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Post by kortilla »

Kaze404 wrote: post #171
kortilla wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> for all the innovation a free market touts, all I remember are the cool/amazing/interesting things they took from us by stifling real innovation. What? The market brought you the personal computer revolution, the mobile phone revolution, the internet revolution, your Xbox, etc and “all you remember” is shared movie viewing?

Wasn't the internet a product of the US government?

No. At least not the one that has useful stuff on it. Companies selling it to consumers and consumers/businesses putting stuff on it is what made it such a resounding success.

The internet created by the government was just a network connecting research labs together.

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