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I'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.
Come over to #startups We are an international bunch of tech entrepreneurs and the channel is usually pretty active.
Idea: Color each username based on a hash of the username. '#' + username.md5().take(6).join('') I did it for a chat I once built, users liked it, and it helps you keep track of who said what. Though I added some styling to keep it legible, like a 30% white blend, a stroke, and a drop shadow. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/spa/quq37nq1583x0lf/xf17fn... (not the best example since everyone happened to be shades of…
Maybe there is some scope for taking distinctive glyphicons from a project like Bootstrap and displaying it next to the username. And combine this with your color scheme, I think it might become easier to keep track of threads. Although, some people may not like the icon associated to them.
Idea: Color each username based on a hash of the username. '#' + username.md5().take(6).join('') I did it for a chat I once built, users liked it, and it helps you keep track of who said what. Though I added some styling to keep it legible, like a 30% white blend, a stroke, and a drop shadow. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/spa/quq37nq1583x0lf/xf17fn... (not the best example since everyone happened to be shades of…
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.
Idea: Color each username based on a hash of the username. '#' + username.md5().take(6).join('') I did it for a chat I once built, users liked it, and it helps you keep track of who said what. Though I added some styling to keep it legible, like a 30% white blend, a stroke, and a drop shadow. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/spa/quq37nq1583x0lf/xf17fn... (not the best example since everyone happened to be shades of…
I take a long sequence of random numbers, using only digits 1-8, like
29834572498741387972573179875938893507418675309
If it's a dark background, I use letters A-F instead.
If the contrast is insufficient, I'll change a character in the sequence here and there, but it's a lot faster than calculating a new color for everyone, and while everyone doesn't get a unique color, my opinion is that color isn't what makes them unique, it's their username; the color is an extra hint for those able to see it.
EDIT: I called this, when I came up with it a very long time ago, the "sliding doors" technique. I'm sure I'm not the first to do something like that, and it was before the similarly named (abut unrelated, functionally) image replacement trick was popular.
Nice app, but reading the unfiltered drivel of tech executives in real time is truly more than I can handle.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
#python and #ubuntu are heavily filled on freenode with over a thousand users though? As well as #debian and #go-nuts (for Go) I think IRC is plenty popular, now if the vast majority idle is another story, people are from all around the globe.
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
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