Looks great. I've seen similar projects and I think these disposable group chats are very powerful.<p>My biggest problem is that I never remember them for when I need them and resort to group chats. Often that's "good enough" but for when everyone isn't on the same network something like this would be nice. Again, the hardest part is thinking about the service when I need it.<p>A feature request would be file attachments. It's 2013 and attaching a file in a chat is still extremely painful and rarely works.
What do you mean by "may exist"?<p><pre><code> Failed! "asdjoiqndiqnw09d21eh09n20dnqdqddqw" may exist, try another name
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Are you using a bloom filter or something?
<p><pre><code> Failed! "sdf" may exist, try another name
Failed! "sdkjfhjkshf" may exist, try another name
Failed! "kjht7y248i23uh" may exist, try another name
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Great minds think alike, right? (edit: formatting)
<p><pre><code> > Failed! "test" may exist, try another name
> Failed! "another name" may exist, try another name
> Failed! "i just did" may exist, try another name</code></pre>
> Failed! "sodihfoihvocin" may exist, try another name<p>Hmm. Every name I tried gave me this message. At first I thought it was because I used obvious names that other people had used, like "test" and "foobar", but even the above random string of gibberish failed.
Kudos. Very clean design. I toyed with pretty much the exact same concept a few years ago when I wanted to try out Google's AppEngine:<p><a href="http://yakeze.appspot.com/nick/hackernews2013/" rel="nofollow">http://yakeze.appspot.com/nick/hackernews2013/</a>
If you're going to give people a unique URL to give out, then can we have non unique group names? I couldn't find a relevant group name that wasn't already taken, so resorted to mashing the keyboard
Interesting. I've been working on a very similar concept but based on IRC. There's a version running here: <a href="http://lalo-g7stltno.dotcloud.com/" rel="nofollow">http://lalo-g7stltno.dotcloud.com/</a><p>Once authenticated with your Twitter account you can join a room using the URL, the path represents a room/channel. The cool thing is that you can also join to that channel using a standard IRC client as well.<p>The code is here: <a href="https://github.com/malditogeek/lalo" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/malditogeek/lalo</a>
When me and a friend of mine were experimenting in creating a web chat we realized that inserting new messages into the beginning of page (or div) is much better for both users and developers. No bothering with autoscrolling. No user distraction of autoscrolling when he reads previous messages. It was really a good decision.<p>Anyway IRC is much better. I don't want to live my life in a multitabbed web browser window.
I'd also make the identifiers non-guessable.<p>I'm having quite a nice conversation with kokpo at the moment but I don't think he meant to invite me ;)
Whatever I try to use as group name, "it may already exist":<p>“Failed! "almzirfmzeurfuerzf" may exist, try another name”<p>“Failed! "lalalalalalalahello" may exist, try another name”<p>…
Tried to create groups with non-us character in it (ö) and get the following message:<p>Page unavailable
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<a href="https://crypto.cat/" rel="nofollow">https://crypto.cat/</a> will give you encrypted group chat from a word. But you do have to install an extension.
typed in three choices of group name: one a dictionary word, another a university module code, the last a random selection of about 20+ letters. All three choices returned the same error message - that this group may already exist.