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Re: Show HN: HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification

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Post by evan_ »

danneu wrote: post #50
baddox wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like the idea, although I'd probably choose a palette of, say, 30 colors, and hash the username mod 30 to determine the color. That way all the colors should be sufficiently contrasty.

My IRC client does this, but I find it too jarring when multiple people are talking and they have the same color. Sometimes it rolls a yahtzee and the three people talking all have the same color and the same length of chars in their name. I figure that even if the people talking luck out and have a shade of green like in my screenshot, it's still better than if they all fell into the identical green bucket.

It could choose two or three colors and split the name in half or thirds.

Re: Show HN: HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification

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Post by qwertyuiop924 »

sotojuan wrote: post #42
qwertyuiop924 wrote: post #39

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shrugs 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 levelh…

I stand corrected! See my reply to the sibling comment.

Yeah, that's the kind of distribution I was expecting. I'm glad sibling could get some hard data on it, though.

Re: Show HN: HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification

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Post by qwertyuiop924 »

gregimba wrote: post #31
qwertyuiop924 wrote: post #16

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...But what if you're the rare HNer than doesn't actually care about startups?

still a nice group of irc people

Well, yes, there is that. Unfortunately, IRC channels have enforced topics: those of us who are on HN more so for the cool tech stuff, and less so for the startups cannot contribute to the forum: This is why things like HN Chat are useful: the enforced topics, if any, are broad enough for the HN community to all be able to talk. Although, once again, they would do well to be more integrated with established communications technologies (IRC, etc.).

Re: Show HN: HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification

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Post by rastapasta42 »

App version for android: http://forty7.org/tmp/hnapp/hnchat.app.arm.apk

I'm making a website tool to convert website to Android apps, so was using this as a test.

If anyone got an x86 android device, I also generated x86 version of the app: http://forty7.org/tmp/hnapp/hnchat.app.x86.apk

Re: Show HN: HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification

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Post by steveklabnik »

sotojuan wrote: post #41
chrismorgan wrote: post #40

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“Large” means #rust on moznet, which normally has around a thousand people in it, and has scores of regulars actively chatting.

From the reply to my sibling post and yours, I stand corrected. It seems IRC is big with older languages like C and related (as in, a similar domain) ones like Rust[1]. JavaScript and new, web related languages like Elm are more likely to use Slack. [1] I'm curious as to whether that IRC channel is the only "blessed" Rust chat out there. The problem with other languages is that the community makes a Slack for them ev…

With Rust, I've only heard of some people making Slacks. I don't use Slack, but at least one person mentioned on IRC that the Rust slack they were in was pretty much dead, so I'm not aware of this happening to Rust yet. We'll see as time goes on. There are something like 50 #rust- channels on Mozilla's IRC and ##rust on Freenode, though.

I've also heard of quite a few very active JavaScript Freenode channels, though Slack does have a lot of inroads there depending on which particular segment of the community you're into.

Re: Show HN: HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification

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Post by koolba »

qwertyuiop924 wrote: post #16
dardup wrote: post #11

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Come over to #startups We are an international bunch of tech entrepreneurs and the channel is usually pretty active.

...But what if you're the rare HNer than doesn't actually care about startups?

I thought most people don't care at all about startups. I come here for hard tech (which is honestly lacking), hive mind opinion research, and, most of all, unfiltered snark.
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