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The "Login to chat" should link to the login page.
I thought it should be vulnerable to 1. find hash on victim's profile, 2. login using the hash + username
But it seems the hash is never actually submitted to the server, neither through the login form nor later on by cookie. That is good news! The implied hurdle is that you'll need to update the hash on each login.
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> 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.
Meanwhile, Elm's Slack channel has more regulars than #node.js.
IRC is kept alive by a small holdout. I'm one of those people, but it's no mystery to me why nobody else uses it when I'm paying irccloud.com or running weechat-ncurses on a VPS just for basic features everyone expects from a communication tool.
The only problem you have is that people are leaving all their comments on the chat group instead of in here... :)
Another chat app with mostly arbitrary ways to communicate? No thanks. I understand this is for HN community, but with XMPP, ICQ derivatives, IRC, etc I already have too many spaces to keep up with. Its nice though, I like the profile key integration.
Yeah, 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.
Mine happens to be Facebook Messenger.
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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…
Then again, look at the stacks you're looking at: they're all relatively new, and most of them are frontend, and thus more likely to jump on the new shiny. ##c on freenode has >1k users as I write this. Although that's probably also an outlier.
Personally, I'm hoping that Matrix becomes the new standard, if we ever get one beyond IRC. IRC is showing its age, and Matrix seems to be the most practical and levelheaded group doing work on the problem.
As for Slack, I'm pretty lukewarm on it, and kinda prefer IRC.
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I haven't seen Slack used much outside of organizations. However, IRC is everywhere.
IRC isn't everywhere. Even a large channel like freenode's #node.js has maybe 15 regulars, myself included. Meanwhile, Elm's Slack channel has more regulars than #node.js. IRC is kept alive by a small holdout. I'm one of those people, but it's no mystery to me why nobody else uses it when I'm paying irccloud.com or running weechat-ncurses on a VPS just for basic features everyone expects from a communication tool.