It would be nice to have tab completion for typing usernames.
Show HN: HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification
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#22Oh gosh and it's already devolved into tabs vs spaces and two vs four, what else should I have expected? ;-)
Nice, I'll login later and check it out!
Re: Show HN: HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification
#23I like that I can login without providing my credentials.
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#24Yeah, the thing is, this needs some kind of IRC bridge, with auth. If you're an HN user, IRC is probably your usual mechanism for realtime textual communication, and I gather many would rather use their very rich tooling built on IRC than check another website.
Why do you assume your preference for IRC is everyone's preference?
I don't. I see a lot of IRC users on HN and other forums. Slack seems semi-common internal to orgs, but IRC seems to be by far the most active realtime communication medium used by devs externally.
People liking IRC is a reasonable conclusion to draw.
Re: Show HN: HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification
#25Yeah, the thing is, this needs some kind of IRC bridge, with auth. If you're an HN user, IRC is probably your usual mechanism for realtime textual communication, and I gather many would rather use their very rich tooling built on IRC than check another website.
> If you're an HN user, IRC is probably your usual mechanism for realtime textual communication I doubt it. I see less and less developers using IRC outside of quick help and instead using Slack. A lot of languages and techs have both a Slack and IRC... it's hard to know which one's more active sometimes which is annoying.
I haven't seen Slack used much outside of organizations. However, IRC is everywhere.
Re: Show HN: HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification
#26Idea: Color each username based on a hash of the username.
'#' + username.md5().take(6).join('')
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/spa/quq37nq1583x0lf/xf17fn... (not the best example since everyone happened to be shades of green)
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#27`Add the following token to your HN Bio` on login screen.
What means `HN Bio` ?
Sorry, for dumb question.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If you're an HN user, IRC is probably your usual mechanism for realtime textual communication I doubt it. I see less and less developers using IRC outside of quick help and instead using Slack. A lot of languages and techs have both a Slack and IRC... it's hard to know which one's more active sometimes which is annoying.
I haven't seen Slack used much outside of organizations. However, IRC is everywhere.
Everywhere as in...? IRC isn't going anywhere for sure, I use it (prefer it to Slack), but its usage has diminished greatly to very niche groups such as anime subtitling communities and programming languages/techs. Of the latter, many are either moving to Slack or also have a Slack with more people on it. I also hear less and less developers using or talking about IRC in general.
Elixir (language), Ember (JavaScript framework), Elm (language) all have more active Slacks than IRCs. Facebook's React moved from Slack to Discord, and the community has never cared for or used their IRC channel.
There's still fairly active IRCs like the JavaScript, Go, Clojure (I think), and the Node ones, but they're becoming the exception.
I think IRC is popular in your group of developers and interests, but for many people it's somehow considered ancient. On an interview I once mentioned IRC and the interviewer (in his 40s) was surprised it was still a thing.
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#29I've been idling in #hn on freenode for years now, and sadly it's consistently been dead, activity wise. Eager to see if hnchat can change the game.
Unfortunately full of people attempting to XSS and spam unicode. I think I'll stick with IRC :)
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#30`Add the following token to your HN Bio` on login screen. What means `HN Bio` ? Sorry, for dumb question.
Looks like you figured it out, but for anyone else following along.. Click your username and you'll be taken to a page like https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=indirpir where you can place your token.