very cool! I was there for maybe 2 minutes before HN took the system down :D

Investigating why it’s breaking, was there a lot of people in that room?

when it broke there were 3-4 people in it

update: it's not the amount of people in it that broke this room https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775047

update 2: should be working now (give it a second to fully load)

update 3: added rendering of only the newest messages per default, scroll-to-bottom, and message length truncation to deal with the spam a bit better

Not very cool if it breaks under hardly any load.

You'd think they'd test their tech demos on more than a handful of people before launching. This doesn't give much confidence at all in their product.

I don't think you're on the right forum if this is your response to somebody launching something new and technically interesting.

note the creator did not intend for the project to be posted to hn at this time

Looks like it's not load that brought it down but someone posting a 340kb individual message that's triggering a bug because we didn't account for that sort of thing somewhere.

The good thing is we now have an easily reproducible case, thanks HN :)

Update: it was something else entirely, that we worked around for now and will fix soon

what was the other thing that brought it down!? Please don't leave us hanging!!

Tell me you never build anything without telling you never build anything