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Show HN: HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification
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#72> Add the following token to your HN bio: hnchat:p2z9iJCaT5ZXWlWp5Vua
Smart idea to verify users
Re: Show HN: HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification
#73Earlier 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.
I'd probably try to convert the RGB to HSV and then sanitize the values a bit. Get rid of too flashy or too unsaturated colors.
This is what Pokémon Showdown does.
https://github.com/Zarel/Pokemon-Showdown-Client/blob/434322...
A naive HSL implementation will lead to very light yellows/cyans and very dark blues. PS corrects for this by manually darkening yellows/cyans and lightening blues.
A better solution might be to use a color model based on perceived luminance, like one discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11437794
Re: Show HN: HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification
#74someone called for this on another site recently:
http://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/845014/NS-MEMBER-CH...
- maybe some way to have minimum karma to join, or at least a way to only see messages according to certain metrics, eg acct age, karma, avg post karma -- or else have those users in different colors, including being invisible
- ability to block people
- message replying
- toggle message storage, either for user or admin
- pausing
- users can make comments in another user's chat profile, with ability for underlying user to reply
- highlight another user's conversation, or have different conversations in different colors
- this might actually work for instagram, where any user can keep a chatspace for their followers - perhaps a new url is provided upon each new photo, that way the users have to view the underlying instagram account, and the chatspace is cleared regularly (GramChat.)
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#76I love this thing
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#77Would be nice if it had a list of top articles that drill down to open in new window | chat (creates a private room for that article | and view comments/threads.
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#78please add a mute feature, tga is annoying
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#79`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.
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#80Yeah, 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 Mine happens to be Facebook Messenger.
...huh. FBM appears to be a centralized two-way textual communcation system with a strong identity system: It's essentially the anti-IRC. What do you use for multi-way textual communication, or textual communication with weak identity (these often go hand-in-hand)? Or do you just not use either?