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Ask Hn: Review needed for my Firefox chat extension

4 pointsby hinoglualmost 16 years ago
Hey guys!<p>Two things were really bugging me about online interaction with others. One is closed online communities, where one will need to pay for connecting others, and the other one is web forums, where online meets the "offline and silent".<p>I wrote a firefox extension, where website addresses/domains are simply names of comunication channels to which any user can join and interact with other -alike- visitors while she can continue surfing on the website(s).<p>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13436/ is the address of my addon. other than that, http://www.visitrs.com/chat/ will provide the same interface, but without the easiness of the plugin.<p>I'd like to have some reviews, though there's not a page that explains the details of the application yet, so i 'd like to be your guide on your journey to my "yet another chat application" And i'll be doing the main page of the site at the meantime :)<p>Any sugesstions, bug reports are welcome. thanks

4 comments

bigbangalmost 16 years ago
Great idea, but I can see few practical problems:<p>1) It has the same catch-22 problem like dating. Unless there are many users already chatting on the site Im visiting, theres no point for me to install this plugin.It maybe better if you target some small segment of people with similar browsing interests, like people who spend a lot of time in social networks, youtube etc.<p>2)<a href="http://www.visitrs.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.visitrs.com/</a> doesnt have any content other than a login screen and the screenshots on mozilla.org is minimal. Some more screenshots would help.<p>3) What will I chat with strangers on a site? or will I even see a list of users currently willing to chat? Will I see the stream of messages between other "chatters" like chat rooms?
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hinoglualmost 16 years ago
gah! timezone problems(gmt+2)! thanks for the visitors interested in my application, unfortunately i manage to be sleeping when anyone pings via the chatrooms :(<p>by the way, for it's initial release, i'm still fixing the bugs. so any kind of feedback, bug reports or enhancement requests are more than welcome..<p>thanks
dan_the_welderalmost 16 years ago
I like the rationale you are using. I would like to see the walled garden broken.
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bdmac97almost 16 years ago
socialbrowse.