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Show HN: Back to one-time end-to-end encrypted anonymous chats in 2025
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Show HN: Back to one-time end-to-end encrypted anonymous chats in 2025
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Re: Show HN: Back to one-time end-to-end encrypted anonymous chats in 2025
#2Why on Earth would I trust this?
Re: Show HN: Back to one-time end-to-end encrypted anonymous chats in 2025
#3Even if it's "end-to-end encrypted", what stops me from opening two connections simultaneously and connecting them to one another in order to eavesdrop?
Re: Show HN: Back to one-time end-to-end encrypted anonymous chats in 2025
#4It’s a bit awkward that “in 2025” (your words) you’re focusing so heavily on gender, especially with a subpar implementation: You only allow “male” and “female” (which right off the bat will make many people close the website, even if they identify with either), have zero checks (as if people didn’t lie about that on the internet all the time), and make people type it themselves (when it should be a dropdown or radio button, if you only allow limited choice).
Why be so adamant about it? It’s not like you built a dating service. The website has a shady vibe in general, I expect most women will be put off by the very thought of outing themselves to thirsty creeps.
Re: Show HN: Back to one-time end-to-end encrypted anonymous chats in 2025
#5I genuinely have no idea what to chose in the gender-screen (since neither option applies) and can't just say "You don't get to know that".
Why is this needed?
Edit: clarification
Re: Show HN: Back to one-time end-to-end encrypted anonymous chats in 2025
#6It's clear to me that the criticism is coming from people who had never used omegle. While it's all valid, it was extraordinarily popular anyway.
Re: Show HN: Back to one-time end-to-end encrypted anonymous chats in 2025
#7I genuinely have no idea what to chose in the gender-screen (since neither option applies) and can't just say "You don't get to know that". Why is this needed? Edit: clarification
You could just use what's on your license or ID.
The site seems to be a kind of dating/singles chat, if that's the case having genders/sexes makes some sense, although indeed it could be better.
Re: Show HN: Back to one-time end-to-end encrypted anonymous chats in 2025
#8this is giving me "anonymous chat for horny people", probably because of the immediate gender choice.
i can imagine most first messages looking like "a/s/l?"(age, sex, location).
source: was once a teenage boy with internet access.
Re: Show HN: Back to one-time end-to-end encrypted anonymous chats in 2025
#9I genuinely have no idea what to chose in the gender-screen (since neither option applies) and can't just say "You don't get to know that". Why is this needed? Edit: clarification
You could just use what's on your license or ID. The site seems to be a kind of dating/singles chat, if that's the case having genders/sexes makes some sense, although indeed it could be better.
> You could just use what's on your license or ID.
Not only could that not match your real gender, there are places where IDs allow for more than those two options.
https://www.bustle.com/p/12-states-with-a-third-gender-optio...
Re: Show HN: Back to one-time end-to-end encrypted anonymous chats in 2025
#10It’s a bit awkward that “in 2025” (your words) you’re focusing so heavily on gender, especially with a subpar implementation: You only allow “male” and “female” (which right off the bat will make many people close the website, even if they identify with either), have zero checks (as if people didn’t lie about that on the internet all the time), and make people type it themselves (when it should be a dropdown or radio…
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