Show HN: ClapChat – Instant messaging for HN users

Re:Show HN: ClapChat – Instant messaging for HN users by Arathorn on Saturday December 24, 2016 @04:31PM (#13251703)

Shame this is neither FOSS nor standards-based... Matrix-based HN chat would be awesome :) (i work on matrix so am probably biased though :D)

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Re:Show HN: ClapChat – Instant messaging for HN users by carnivalclown on Sunday December 25, 2016 @01:55AM (#13253288)

> nor standards-based...

Not to be antagonistic but what difference does it make if it's not "standards based" while it works for them and does what they want it to do?

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Re:Show HN: ClapChat – Instant messaging for HN users by rickycook on Saturday December 24, 2016 @07:17PM (#13252210)

they say further up that they will be open sourcing it. my first thought was the same, but the twillio chat they've used seems super simple, so potentially matrix was just too heavy for their simple needs at the moment

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Re:Show HN: ClapChat – Instant messaging for HN users by todd3834 on Saturday December 24, 2016 @07:23PM (#13252236)

Hi yes! You are correct. We just wanted to go with the most simple backend service with the least amount of maintenance that we could use for starters.

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Re:Show HN: ClapChat – Instant messaging for HN users by Arathorn on Saturday December 24, 2016 @11:05PM (#13252840)

guess we have our work cut out for us on Matrix then :D

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Re:Show HN: ClapChat – Instant messaging for HN users by todd3834 on Sunday December 25, 2016 @12:16AM (#13253053)

I know that I'll be checking it out for more details soon. Thanks for bringing it to my attention :)

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