Seems like there's quite a few Ido Cohens. How to contact you?
Hi, I'm not sure what is the best way :)
GitHub issues are a good way if you want to comment about the app. You can also contact me at ido.mapchat @gmail.com
Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code
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Re: Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code
#102Do you want to make a snowman? http://imgur.com/YDUgG3U
Re: Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code
#103So, this is how my experience started. http://cl.ly/image/071f1j0B0M3a And then it took me like 5 seconds to figure out how to chat. I first tried to click on people's chat to reply to them and then I finally found the text input at the bottom of the screen. Then nothing would happen when I hit enter. Then I eventually found the blue circle send button and that didn't work. Then I tried Chrome. Worked! So I found som…
Thanks for the feedback. I didn't really tested it on Safari yet (Although I did test it on ios) I will look into that :)
I will try to add some features to improve conversation, you are welcome to add and track these suggestions on the issues page of the project.
Re: Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code
#104Awesome! Could this unintentially DDOS google's map tile server / API?
I'm using a google maps api key to track this, and so far I had only 11K hits on their server. The free limit is 25K for 90 days. After that I'll need to start pay :)
Re: Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code
#105Notifications should be limited to the messages visible within your bounding box. If I've zoomed in on a city, I don't want notifications from somewhere half-way around the world.
Yes! Right now it is just broken :) you get an endless stream of notifications, I will add a very simple distance filter.
Re: Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code
#106Notifications should be limited to the messages visible within your bounding box. If I've zoomed in on a city, I don't want notifications from somewhere half-way around the world.
Yes! Right now it is just broken :) you get an endless stream of notifications, I will add a very simple distance filter.
I'm not so sure about distance. Maybe based on your zoom level? Because if you're zoomed out, I'd guess you want more notifications than if you're zoomed in on a city or region.
Re: Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code
#107"Connection lost, please refresh :(" Every time I load the page.
Does the problem still persist? which browser are you using?
Are you on some restricted network? (Like an internal company network behind a fire wall?)
Re: Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code
#108On my Chrome+OS X Yosemite, I opened it in a separate tab, and went back to working on something else. After a couple of minutes, the laptop really started heating up :). The `Google Chrome Helper` associated with this tab was the culprit, hogging 100% CPU. Killed it and everything came back to normal.
Anyone else experience that?
Re: Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code
#109Just add the concept of mayorship for the cities and this thing gonna last long!
Re: Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code
#110I see some abuse from some specific IPs, and I'm thinking about automatically black-listing them after two messages in less than a specific threshold. What do you think?