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Ask HN: what do you think of my chat app?

http://270rule.appspot.com/ is anonymous live chat for any page, plus a feed of who is chatting where. no login, bbcode, and some embedding are supported. let me know what you think! thank you hn!!!!
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Re:Ask HN: what do you think of my chat app? by jackowayed on Friday January 02, 2009 @01:42PM (#417537)
It's pretty cool. I'm using it on this page right now.

Your home site needs a little work. The links sometimes collide with the text.

It also would be good to add some kind of description on the home page. Even just putting "Anonymous Chat for Any Page" right below the big "270rule" would be a step up.

Also, it would be nice if it would highlight what I've posted (even if it's only temporary, going away after a refresh) so that I can quickly see which messages are "new" (as in came later than the last thing I've said).

Also, I did eventually find the close link on my own, but it's not at all obvious. You can put "270 rule" somewhere else, but you really want to tell people that that link closes it.

And if you can find a way not to allow people to open it several times on the same page (Try clicking the bookmarklet several times and see what happens.) that would be cool.

Re:Ask HN: what do you think of my chat app? by fadmmatt on Friday January 02, 2009 @01:51PM (#417545)
Re:Ask HN: what do you think of my chat app? by th0ma5 on Friday January 02, 2009 @01:54PM (#417550)
nice way she handles a lot of things there. i like the way usernames on the chat are handled. interesting use of frames too
Re:Ask HN: what do you think of my chat app? by safetytrick on Friday January 02, 2009 @11:29PM (#418116)
I tried out the Hot right now link, should this show active yaplet chats across the web? I can't see myself checking pages to see if they have open chats (I'm sure the plan is to use a link rather than check each page) Maybe a browser plugin could alert me if other yaplet users are chatting or visiting pages I am browsing?
Re:Ask HN: what do you think of my chat app? by tocomment on Friday January 02, 2009 @04:24PM (#417726)
Whatever happened to circle of chat/conversation (I forget the exact name :-(

That was a nice one. This one sounds cool too, I'll check it out later.

Re:Ask HN: what do you think of my chat app? by jackowayed on Friday January 02, 2009 @02:34PM (#417582)
Looks like you're having issues w/ the quotas already.

I just got a 403 Over Quota. Refresh fixed, but still.

Re:Ask HN: what do you think of my chat app? by th0ma5 on Friday January 02, 2009 @01:18PM (#417511)
sorry to interact with the service, use the bookmarklet on the main page while browsing any other page
Re:Ask HN: what do you think of my chat app? by sanj on Friday January 02, 2009 @03:52PM (#417681)
Re:Ask HN: what do you think of my chat app? by poops on Saturday January 03, 2009 @01:23AM (#418200)
here's another with dynamic room names http://yamr.net/hacker_news
Re:Ask HN: what do you think of my chat app? by jonursenbach on Friday January 02, 2009 @05:15PM (#417799)
Needs a lot of work, to say the least.