I created an ephemeral group chat app for strangers

Post by bossyTeacher » Thu, Dec 28, 2023, 2:17 PM UTC

_l219 wrote: post #20

Post by bossyTeacher » Thu, Dec 28, 2023, 2:28 PM UTC

beeboobaa wrote: post #26

tejitopia wrote: post #23

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Wow. It was working great at the start before people started spamming nsfw content and injecting html and css into the page. Will be taking down the site in the morning and working on version 2. I guess from this I can say there’s some demand?

Easy fix: In your script.js in the appendMessage function do this: const chatMessage = document.createElement("div"); chatMessage.classList.add("chat-message"); chatMessage.innerHTML = ` ${username}: `; const userMessage = document.createElement('span'); span.innerText = message; chatMessage.appendChild(userMessage); chatContainer.appendChild(chatMessage); chatContainer.scrollTop = chatContainer.scrollHeight;

Post by _lvbh » Thu, Dec 28, 2023, 4:26 PM UTC

bossyTeacher wrote: post #31

_l219 wrote: post #20

what about it? you can't insert an iframe in the chat, I tried ;)

Post by beeboobaa » Fri, Dec 29, 2023, 2:05 PM UTC

nusl wrote: post #36

tejitopia wrote: post #23

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Wow. It was working great at the start before people started spamming nsfw content and injecting html and css into the page. Will be taking down the site in the morning and working on version 2. I guess from this I can say there’s some demand?

It's unfortunate, though anything you make online now will be abused readily and should thus be hardened. By leaving it in the state it was, regular users were endangered.

Post by beeboobaa » Mon, Jan 01, 2024, 6:11 PM UTC

nusl wrote: post #38

beeboobaa wrote: post #37

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Don't be dramatic, there was no danger.

Folks were spamming porn and posting your IP address to chat on your behalf. Being able to execute code in someone else’s browser is dangerous.