Do you think this has potential? It just launched so the number of people chatting is not quite there yet.
Yup, definitely.
Review our new social game, theWorldChat: Chat using your FB pic.
11–20 of 24 posts
Re: Review our new social game, theWorldChat: Chat using your FB pic.
#12Too bad it's not actually anonymous at all.
You can easily identify anyone by viewing the source of their FB pic. For example:
http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/hs444.snc4/48985_665523839_4409_q.jpg
Re: Review our new social game, theWorldChat: Chat using your FB pic.
#13This isn't a game, there are no game mechanics built into this. All you do is click the 'Next' or 'Accept' buttons. People will obviously only accept chats with people with an interesting or attractive profile image. Another issue I find is that I am unable to 'chat' with anyone. It makes me feel like you site is padding with bots that don't speak back to you. They just sit there. I don't see this site 'blowing' up o…
Really? What separates you from chat roulette besides one is video and one is text? What is suppose to keep my coming back to your app? There is no value to this IMHO, others may fell different, but don't ask for a review and then down vote the honest ones. After all, I didn't make another account to post a comment and upvote comments that benefit this post.
Re: Review our new social game, theWorldChat: Chat using your FB pic.
#14Too bad it's not actually anonymous at all. You can easily identify anyone by viewing the source of their FB pic. For example: http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/hs444.snc4/48985_665523839_4409_q.jpg profile ID is 665523839, which you can plug in to see all their details: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=665523839
Haha yep. Anyone know of a way to hide that? We might have to save the pic from fb. That would be a pain though.
Re: Review our new social game, theWorldChat: Chat using your FB pic.
#15While the site itself is interesting, I don't like that it posted a message to my Facebook wall without asking or telling me. (I know I gave it permission to but still, I'd like to be notified before that occurs)
I agree we should remove that feature at some point. Let me ask you how is different from how farmville build up traffic.
"Farmville does it" isn't a valid excuse. Be kind to users. Don't sink to the lowest common denominator.
Re: Review our new social game, theWorldChat: Chat using your FB pic.
#16Too bad it's not actually anonymous at all. You can easily identify anyone by viewing the source of their FB pic. For example: http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/hs444.snc4/48985_665523839_4409_q.jpg profile ID is 665523839, which you can plug in to see all their details: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=665523839
Haha yep. Anyone know of a way to hide that? We might have to save the pic from fb. That would be a pain though.
There really isn't a way around that (as far as I can tell) beyond caching them on your server.
Re: Review our new social game, theWorldChat: Chat using your FB pic.
#17Too bad it's not actually anonymous at all. You can easily identify anyone by viewing the source of their FB pic. For example: http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/hs444.snc4/48985_665523839_4409_q.jpg profile ID is 665523839, which you can plug in to see all their details: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=665523839
Haha yep. Anyone know of a way to hide that? We might have to save the pic from fb. That would be a pain though.
Your relaxed attitude to privacy is enough to make me never use that site, sorry.
The fact that it is a 'pain' to make the effort to protect someones identity means you're probably in the wrong business.
Re: Review our new social game, theWorldChat: Chat using your FB pic.
#18While the site itself is interesting, I don't like that it posted a message to my Facebook wall without asking or telling me. (I know I gave it permission to but still, I'd like to be notified before that occurs)
This is against the API rules of Facebook, remove it asap.
What part of the Tos? The app is explicitly asking you for permission to post things to your wall.
Re: Review our new social game, theWorldChat: Chat using your FB pic.
#19Do you think this has potential? It just launched so the number of people chatting is not quite there yet.
I think this has more potential than chatroulette due to its lack of anonymity. The fact that users can be (at least partially) identified by their facebook profiles, should prevent predatorial behaviour. I would include a three strike policy where your users could denounce rude and abusive behaviour, and after 3 complaints, the accused could be banned from using the application.
Be careful and smart about that 3 strike policy. Remember the ability to "warn" back on AIM? It got really annoying. How are you going to keep people from abusing this 3 strike system?
Also, identification of a Facebook profile does not necessarily prevent predatorial behavior. It doesn't promote it, sure, but anyone can make a believable fake profile.
More potential than chatroulette is a bold claim considering they came first. Despite that, your app does have potential, and personally, I would use it, at least the concept of it. Right now it's not very usable. It rotates through like 5 people and they're not necessarily 'there'.
Re: Review our new social game, theWorldChat: Chat using your FB pic.
#20Too bad it's not actually anonymous at all. You can easily identify anyone by viewing the source of their FB pic. For example: http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/hs444.snc4/48985_665523839_4409_q.jpg profile ID is 665523839, which you can plug in to see all their details: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=665523839
Haha yep. Anyone know of a way to hide that? We might have to save the pic from fb. That would be a pain though.
It shouldn't be too much of a pain to do. I do something like this on http://thingist.com (Not caching facebook photos, caching the randomly generated 3x3 pictures that it gives you if you don't connect with facebook [the script to generate the pictures is expensive])
The python to do it would look something like this:
def cache_fb_photo(fb_uid,cache_name):
import urllib
import time
request = urllib.urlopen("https://graph.facebook.com/%s/picture" % (fb_uid))
photo = request.read()
photo_location = "/path/to/photo/cache/cache_name"
cached_photo = open(photo_location, "w")
cached_photo.write(photo)
cached_photo.close()