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Re: Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes

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Post by nicc » Wed, Jun 03, 2020, 9:16 PM UTC

feross wrote: post #4

nicc wrote: post #3

Gives out pretty negative feelings to me. A sad emojii with a face mask is pretty depressing, and even worse if you see the mask as political. Black lives matter is destroying cities across the USA. I'm sure it's just me, but I wonder if anyone else sees this?

Sorry that you don't like it. Can't please everyone. Lots of people have told me they've had fun meeting new people from around the world. Regarding the hashtag, I put it there because I'm against police brutality and I'm horrified by what the police are doing. Looters should be arrested and prosecuted, for sure. But police have a monopoly on the use of violence and must be held to a higher standard.

I didn't write I don't like it, mostly think being more neutral and removing political statements might be better.

As for the Police, that was one guy. What percentage of cops kill innocent people, vs. save you from the bad guys (I was saved by cops twice, for instance). Also looks like the guy is going to be held at a higher standard and will get a harsh punishment. Is looting and burning down stores that in many cases represent people's life savings the correct way to solve the problem?

As you see, we could be talking about your chat, and we're talking about violence and depressing things like a store owner saving money for 20 years only to see it burn down by Antifa.

Re: Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes

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Post by feross » Wed, Jun 03, 2020, 9:18 PM UTC

Scarbutt wrote: post #7

The "click the emojis" doesn't increase in difficulty ;) Are the 200 questions publicly visible somehwere?

They're in a JSON file in the repo at the moment. I'll open source them later today when I have a spare moment: https://github.com/feross

Re: Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes

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Post by nicc » Wed, Jun 03, 2020, 9:22 PM UTC

dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #5

nicc wrote: post #3

Gives out pretty negative feelings to me. A sad emojii with a face mask is pretty depressing, and even worse if you see the mask as political. Black lives matter is destroying cities across the USA. I'm sure it's just me, but I wonder if anyone else sees this?

> Black lives matter is destroying cities across the USA. I don't think anyone has a good solution to that. Many people have been very angry for years and they feel the need to express that. It doesn't really matter if the owners of shops are white or black at this point. If you try to block this anger, the result will be even more anger. So I think the policemen who kneel, hug, kiss the shoes etc. are doing the righ…

All true.

Re: Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes

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Post by stbtrax » Wed, Jun 03, 2020, 9:22 PM UTC

nicc wrote: post #3

Gives out pretty negative feelings to me. A sad emojii with a face mask is pretty depressing, and even worse if you see the mask as political. Black lives matter is destroying cities across the USA. I'm sure it's just me, but I wonder if anyone else sees this?

>Black lives matter is destroying cities across the USA.

You're right in that there is unfortunately some damage being caused to property, with some of those not having large corporate backings or insurance to recover from it.

It's apparent that there are some opportunists using the protests as cover, or that this is a misguided small fraction of people protesting.

If we're talking about what is destroying our cities, this is a small blip. We have a opioid crisis, thousands of people routinely going bankrupt not being able to afford healthcare, and a government that stacks the odds against the working-class in favor of the rich. Corporations are getting more powerful and there is a greater wealth disparity than ever before. If anything that is what is destroying our cities and this is some minor symptom of it.

Re: Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes

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Post by swyx » Wed, Jun 03, 2020, 9:29 PM UTC

tried matching with 3 people, all took one look at my face and peaced lol

nice app though! love the small touches with the emojis and sounds!

Re: Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes

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Post by feross » Wed, Jun 03, 2020, 9:30 PM UTC

swyx wrote: post #15

tried matching with 3 people, all took one look at my face and peaced lol nice app though! love the small touches with the emojis and sounds!

That's a bummer! I think I'll implement a penalty for leaving in the middle of a chat. Will auto-ban folks who do that too much. Thoughts?

Re: Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes

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Post by wenbo » Wed, Jun 03, 2020, 9:32 PM UTC

feross wrote: post #12

Scarbutt wrote: post #7

The "click the emojis" doesn't increase in difficulty ;) Are the 200 questions publicly visible somehwere?

They're in a JSON file in the repo at the moment. I'll open source them later today when I have a spare moment: https://github.com/feross

I just wanted to start by saying thanks so much for your open source contributions. I've been using simple-peer in a few side projects and it's been a breeze.

Are you planning on eventually open sourcing Virus Cafe on top of releasing the questions?

Re: Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes

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Post by putsjoe » Wed, Jun 03, 2020, 9:36 PM UTC

feross wrote: post #9

laurensr wrote: post #6

As this is HN, could you elaborate on the technologies you used to build this platform?

Sure thing. The video and voice chat is powered by WebRTC. The getUserMedia API allows a browser to access the webcam and microphone of the device. I used my own simple-peer ( https://github.com/feross/simple-peer ) library to make WebRTC a bit easier to work with. The server is Node.js. I'm using Next.js for the first time on this project. I usually use a custom Express server for my projects. I'm a fan of several o…

That's great thanks, really informative. May I ask where your hosting this all?

Re: Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes

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Post by mdni007 » Wed, Jun 03, 2020, 9:37 PM UTC

feross wrote: post #10

AbraKdabra wrote: post #8

Is there a chance for chat instead of video call? I like the idea but I'm not exposing myself in video. I know it "ruins" the experience but each one to its own.

I understand how you feel but I don't think anything can replace looking into another human's eyes.

sounds gross

Re: Show HN: Virus Cafe – Make a friend in 2 minutes

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Post by shkkmo » Wed, Jun 03, 2020, 9:40 PM UTC

feross wrote: post #10

AbraKdabra wrote: post #8

Is there a chance for chat instead of video call? I like the idea but I'm not exposing myself in video. I know it "ruins" the experience but each one to its own.

I understand how you feel but I don't think anything can replace looking into another human's eyes.

Well, video certainly hasn't replaced it. Maybe one day we will all have devices with the multiple cameras and the signal processing to allow actual eye contact over a video call.