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Re:Show HN: Popcorn Messaging – Anonymously chat with people... by AbhishekBiswal on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @02:38PM (#6642260)
Creates a chat room with all the people around in it or it just randomly connects you to a single person?
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Re:Show HN: Popcorn Messaging – Anonymously chat with people... by adamb_ on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @03:03PM (#6642478)
Assuming it's a one mile radius for everyone, making it a chat room the app would either need to intersect or union everyone's area... This would make the novelty of the app unusable or pointless, respectively.
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Re:Show HN: Popcorn Messaging – Anonymously chat with people... by melvinmt on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @03:19PM (#6642594)
Yeah, I wonder how that works actually. If radius A intersects with B and C but B and C don't intersect with each other, do B and C see A chatting to someone who they don't see?
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Re:Show HN: Popcorn Messaging – Anonymously chat with people... by mforbes on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @03:51PM (#6642866)
That's how mobile radios have always worked... CB, FRS, GMRS, etc. Definitely not a new problem. Repeaters can mitigate the problem somewhat.
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Re:Show HN: Popcorn Messaging – Anonymously chat with people... by wf on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @03:55PM (#6642897)
That's a really great question, my curiosity is also piqued.
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Re:Show HN: Popcorn Messaging – Anonymously chat with people... by mattberg on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @03:48PM (#6642840)
would really like to know more about this as well.
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Re:Show HN: Popcorn Messaging – Anonymously chat with people... by jaredsohn on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @03:58PM (#6642912)
A previous app (now defunct) named ChatSquare would group people together based on the nearest Foursquare location.
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Re:Show HN: Popcorn Messaging – Anonymously chat with people... by jcutrell on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @03:28PM (#6642682)
Looks like there are "areas" to unlock.
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Re:Show HN: Popcorn Messaging – Anonymously chat with people... by tsheng on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @02:39PM (#6642275)
Yeah that was the question I initially had - I'm assuming it's a chat room, which I like a lot better.
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