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Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

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Re: Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

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Post by l1am0 »

effingwewt wrote: post #40

I love this. I still speak fondly of the early days of netlfix, when it first got into streaming on the 360. You could invite an xbox live party to watch movies on Netflix. It had a border you could enable that made it look like a theatre screen with seats, with your live avatars sitting in them, a la Mystery Science Theatre. There was nothing quite like being in a chat party watching movies together. You could talk…

Thanks for all your kind feedback: Did not think of donations so far, but here is my paypal: https://www.paypal.me/51edpo

Binge Together, still needs everyone involved to have an account with the streaming services, thoug.

Re: Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

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Post by l1am0 »

joecot wrote: post #49
l1am0 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awesome, hope it all works out. Stack is quite simple: Frontend: Bulma.css, Vanilla Javascript, HTML Backend: PHP, MariaDB It works by redirecting in the right moment to the streaming sites, via a JavaScript redirect. The voice chat is done via https://meet.jit.si/ To handle potential big load, I force cloudflare to cache all sites under url /p/* thereby after the creation of the watch party, no request hits my serve…

I'm guessing it doesn't handle people pausing the video like Netflix Party or SyncLounge does then?

No that is currently not possible, as there is no way of getting the information about the playback from the website.

To enable this feature a browser plugin would be required again.

With Binge Together I opted for not supporting that in favor of an easier use. (Not everyone included needs to install the extension etc.)

Re: Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

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Post by text_exch »

For those who prefer text-based entertainment, I run an email newsletter called Thinking About Things [1], which sends out a link to an interesting article every day. It's aimed at curious people who don't have a lot of time to read - each email has an extended quote from the article so that you can see if it interests you. It's gotten very good reviews from readers.

[1] https://www.thinking-about-things.com/

Re: Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

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Post by Avamander »

a_t48 wrote: post #16
aldoushuxley001 wrote: post #5

does anyone know of a good website to do this but for music? Ideally I'd love to be able to create room where buddies can join, we can chat and take turns suggesting songs to play that we all listen to. I would literally pay money for that.

https://cytu.be/ - works with YT, SoundCloud, and some others.

And also supports videos from various platforms and self-hosted content.

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Post by vxNsr »

Animats wrote: post #39
wolco wrote: post #30

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That sounds interesting. How do you find the places?

Look for movie theaters. Or buy a virtual big-screen TV for your virtual house and invite friends over.

Finally! A use for the lumens I got from the Keybase giveaway
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