The magic link to login doesnt work
The magic link invited me to log in to my EveChat account. I was disappointed to find out nobody was talking about Eve Online.
Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever
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#12Had a few issues creating a new channel:
- filled in the new channel form
- had to sign up
- put in email. woops that was the login form. Clicked log in, email disappeared
- refilled form, got email. Email says "evechat" not "everchat"
- followed link. channel wasn't created, had to do it again
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#13For my startup [0] we have a slack community where we ask people to come engage with us and give us feedback on the product and how it can work better for them. We love it. Teams usually want their own private channel so they can discuss things more openly with us, post screenshots that may have stuff they don't want spread around publicly (we're a product management tool/issue track so teams has sensitive stuff stored with us). The only issue we have is some people have a lot of slack workspaces already and don't want to add yet another (which is totally understandable coming from a guy with 10 or so Slack workspaces right now).
Does Everchat have ambitions to be this kind of private community where companies can interact with their users, etc or is the target something else?
0: https://kitemaker.co, the super fast, hotkey-driven product management tool/issue tracker that has deep integrations to GitHub, Figma, Slack, etc.
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#14For my startup [0] we have a slack community where we ask people to come engage with us and give us feedback on the product and how it can work better for them. We love it. Teams usually want their own private channel so they can discuss things more openly with us, post screenshots that may have stuff they don't want spread around publicly (we're a product management tool/issue track so teams has sensitive stuff stor…
Have you considered something like Discourse[0] for this usecase, or are you looking for something more minimal? I'm trying to understand the usecase better.
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#15For my startup [0] we have a slack community where we ask people to come engage with us and give us feedback on the product and how it can work better for them. We love it. Teams usually want their own private channel so they can discuss things more openly with us, post screenshots that may have stuff they don't want spread around publicly (we're a product management tool/issue track so teams has sensitive stuff stor…
Have you considered something like Discourse[0] for this usecase, or are you looking for something more minimal? I'm trying to understand the usecase better. [0]: https://www.discourse.org/
Hadn't really considered something like a forum TBH. We just want a place where people can come and give us feedback on our product, potentially in private so other teams can't see what they're saying. People often expose things they're working on or at the very least their way of working to us and that's not something they necessarily want open to the public.
Slack is free which is really appealing. But it is a barrier for some people because they don't want to open another slack workspace (slack fatigue).
We also integrate to Discord and like that a lot so that's one option for us for sure.
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#16I like the concept, here is my feedback:
* Moving around is clumsy. If I'm in a channel, it's hard to know how to get back out or to the previous menus without hitting the back button.
* I tried to upload a gif and it just hung without responding. Not sure if the gif ever went through but I eventually got bored of waiting. If it was working - maybe a progress bar on uploading?
* Obviously spam is already a problem. The popular communities list, and the new communities list, are just people mashing their keyboards to create test communities.
* Channel title length needs to be limited. (See the channels with huge names that are ruining the "New Channels" page)
* How does "No censorship" work in terms of malicious content, spam, pornography, etc? If it works like it sounds, I'm not sure I'd like to browse it. Do I really want to see gifs of animals being tortured, shocksite images, etc. People self-promoting and trying to sell things - if people used it wouldn't this be a huge part of the content?
* How would you fall on the subreddits that reddit banned - e.g. jailbail, fatpeoplehate, racist groups? Communities that are not quite illegal, but clearly toxic. Doesn't it seem like by enabling such people to get together and coordinate you are helping to promote toxic behavior?
* The website became non-responsive for me at least once and I had to kill the tab. Looks like it was waiting on firebasestorage googleapis. A better failure mode let me know something had gone wrong, or load as much as possible, without just crashing the tab.
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#17For my startup [0] we have a slack community where we ask people to come engage with us and give us feedback on the product and how it can work better for them. We love it. Teams usually want their own private channel so they can discuss things more openly with us, post screenshots that may have stuff they don't want spread around publicly (we're a product management tool/issue track so teams has sensitive stuff stor…
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, we're looking into this usecase. We're planning to create private communities, where only people with token have access to. And later on, expand on the concept of threading. How does that sound?
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#18Hello hackers! Everchat is finally here! During the past year, we were working hard on making Everchat happen. Today, we're proud to present you with the first public version of it! We're looking forward to seeing what channels you'll create, what topics you'll talk about, and what we can improve and build to make Everchat better for you. Features in this launch: - Account creation - Your and others' profiles - Creat…
Why create a new app instead of simply running a matrix.org server instance?
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#19I like the concept, here is my feedback: * Moving around is clumsy. If I'm in a channel, it's hard to know how to get back out or to the previous menus without hitting the back button. * I tried to upload a gif and it just hung without responding. Not sure if the gif ever went through but I eventually got bored of waiting. If it was working - maybe a progress bar on uploading? * Obviously spam is already a problem. T…
Thanks for the feedback!
You brought up very good points and yes, we are concerned with the same problem you're bringin up. In the future, we want communities to self-police themselves, but for that, people on Everchat need adequate tools, which we haven't even start building yet.
The issue of non-responsivity became apparent when someone (2 hours into launch) tried to crash the site with the unlimited title length :D This should already be hotfixed, so the waiting times shouldn't be that long! :)
Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever
#20Hello hackers! Everchat is finally here! During the past year, we were working hard on making Everchat happen. Today, we're proud to present you with the first public version of it! We're looking forward to seeing what channels you'll create, what topics you'll talk about, and what we can improve and build to make Everchat better for you. Features in this launch: - Account creation - Your and others' profiles - Creat…
From the About page ( https://everch.at/about ): > "We promise never to give any of your private or personally identifiable information to 3rd parties." >"Everchat is censorless, but we reserve rights to take down any subject to criminal activity." How will you reconcile privacy with the "Basic human right of Internet freedom" and takedown requests from authoritarian governments against dissidents who break local spe…
> "How will you reconcile privacy with the "Basic human right of Internet freedom" and takedown requests from authoritarian governments against dissidents who break local speech laws?"
Hopefully we can decentralize the platform in the way that we will be able to back-track history (once we open-source on GitHub).
> "How will you handle NSFW posts?"
Just like on Reddit, there will be a Settings toggle to show/hide them.