Show HN: Chat Circles – Anonymous Chat Site Built with D3 and WebSockets • Hacker News Board

Only problem is that it spins up my computers fans like mad. What is causing this? Moving some circles on the screen should not be a big deal computation wise, should it?

Re: Show HN: Chat Circles – Anonymous Chat Site Built with D3 and WebSockets

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Post by cassandrajam » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 9:36 PM UTC

That looks like an interesting app! Good luck moderating this though, as users can just shove each others and spam text to hide other people's.

Re: Show HN: Chat Circles – Anonymous Chat Site Built with D3 and WebSockets

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Post by WhiteRiceWill » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 9:46 PM UTC

TekMol wrote: post #4

This is pretty entertaining. Congratulations. Only problem is that it spins up my computers fans like mad. What is causing this? Moving some circles on the screen should not be a big deal computation wise, should it?

Thank you! Yes I am aware of the fans issue. It has to do with D3. I am going to work on making the client more efficient to hopefully alleviate the stress that is probably unnecessarily being caused. A quick fix, for now, is to View->Zoom In in your browser or make your window smaller. Both of those temporary solutions will let you chat with no fan or way less fan.

Re: Show HN: Chat Circles – Anonymous Chat Site Built with D3 and WebSockets

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Post by WhiteRiceWill » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 10:01 PM UTC

cassandrajam wrote: post #5

That looks like an interesting app! Good luck moderating this though, as users can just shove each others and spam text to hide other people's.

Thanks for checking it out. I want to do everything I can to encourage high-quality chats without sacrificing a user's free speech. Right now this means doing things like giving users a toggle to see certain kinds of content if they choose to. For example, every selfie uploaded is moderated by a human and marked sfw or nsfw manually within 2 minutes. Then users can either choose to view the nsfw selfies or have them blocked. And the "shoving" you are referring to isn't actually happening. On your screen, it may look like you are moving another user, but on their screen, you are not (you aren't actually changing their position on the server). There is no easy solution to spam/trolling on an anonymous chat site, however, a bunch of smaller solutions can hopefully start to encourage users to have more meaningful interactions.

Re: Show HN: Chat Circles – Anonymous Chat Site Built with D3 and WebSockets

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Post by acct1771 » Fri, Aug 31, 2018, 7:02 AM UTC

WhiteRiceWill wrote: post #6

TekMol wrote: post #4

This is pretty entertaining. Congratulations. Only problem is that it spins up my computers fans like mad. What is causing this? Moving some circles on the screen should not be a big deal computation wise, should it?

Thank you! Yes I am aware of the fans issue. It has to do with D3. I am going to work on making the client more efficient to hopefully alleviate the stress that is probably unnecessarily being caused. A quick fix, for now, is to View->Zoom In in your browser or make your window smaller. Both of those temporary solutions will let you chat with no fan or way less fan.

Definitely would like to know how you figured that one out!

Re: Show HN: Chat Circles – Anonymous Chat Site Built with D3 and WebSockets

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Post by CoderCV » Fri, Aug 31, 2018, 7:33 AM UTC

UI is amazing, but here are some issues in it.

1. Once you go to log in - there is no menu to come back to the homepage or register page. 2. Once you go to forgot pass, there is no menu to come back to log in page or register page.

Re: Show HN: Chat Circles – Anonymous Chat Site Built with D3 and WebSockets

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Post by tinchox5 » Fri, Aug 31, 2018, 7:42 AM UTC

I love it! Circles everywhere!! Its nice to experimenting with other shapes than squares!!