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Re: Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users

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Post by amadeuspagel »

tomjakubowski wrote: post #26
jorgesborges wrote: post #14

Cool idea. I spent a few minutes waiting for a match but no luck, so I’ll try again later. If this link was shared to say, Reddit or 4chan, would it be fair to say we wouldn’t pair with random HN users?

It might be fun to use the referer (sic) to match users coming from the same site.

I thought about that, but many people use HN via RSS, via other sites that scrap it, etc.. And of course people might want to use it from the address bar.

Re: Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users

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Post by em-bee »

amadeuspagel wrote: post #7

I've just changed the DNS settings to a deno deploy instance, rather then my own server. (I initially used my own server, because in deno deploy it's split accross regions, so you have to find a match in your region.) If that doesn't work it might be that the DNS change didn't propagate yet to you, please use https://coffeehouse.deno.dev/hn .

while that does make sense, i am in a pretty isolated region and i'd like to pick a specific different region.

also, while i am at it, i'd prefer a small group rather than one on one.

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Post by boringg »

scubakid wrote: post #30
adventured wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried four of these chats. The first just rambled about how much PHP sucks and how great Postgres is, for no apparent reason. The second touted how amazing Kubernetes is, and then asked if I could help them configure it for their small project. The third went on a long rant about how they could build Zoom as a weekend MVP. The fourth tried to explain how we should run the entire world on SQLite.

Impossible to distinguish if this is satire or reality.

The sign of a great writer

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Post by chrisshroba »

openknot wrote: post #27
proactivesvcs wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This comment is giving me such a laugh. Mine too. When I visited the site out of morbid curiosity I saw that all I had to do to realise my nightmare was to click. Click anywhere. Click anywhere to start. I had to hurl my computer off the bridge into the river to ensure I didn't click anywhere to start.

Even if you click, the text changes to say: "looking for a match ... keep this tab open and your headphones on for a while ..." There's no indicator for how long the queue is, so a match could happen at any time. The serif font, lack of sentence capitalization, and repeating stock photos of the espresso cup also create an emotional atmosphere reminiscent of the SCP Foundation and nosleep fictional horror stories invo…

Presumably there should never be a queue of more than one, right? Unless they have very limited server capacity...

Re: Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

I'm pretty sure I've shared this anecdote before - when I was working at Thomson Reuters at one point HR was doing some sort of reach out to accountants that used our services and doing like socializing stuff with them and at one of these social get togethers where HR was doing their best to get the accountants to be sociable one of them stood up and said "You do realize we didn't become accountants because we like people?"

When I heard about it I really felt a deep connection to that accountant. Sure hope I never meet him.

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