I have written a basic chat application using node.js, what do you guys think?

Haha. Either heroku or Node.js couldn't handle the Hacker News traffic. If you would like to see the code<p><a href="https://github.com/serkanyersen/Basic-Chat" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/serkanyersen/Basic-Chat</a>

I see people are complaing about the XHR requests. That's not my fault. I'm using heroku for hosting and it does not support websockets, so I have to force socket.io to use ajax long polling. That's actually heroku's solution.<p>But if you run it on your server or Cloud9 ide it will work just fine.

Seems fairly usable atm. A few observations: there is an XSS vulnerability as you probably learned by now. Also, there was a moment when someone was submitting content and it appeared under my nick "bpfh".<p>Other than that, kudos for a simple well-functioning chat.

I've written a (very) basic mud server in node.js (in like 8 hours). Maybe you'll be interested: <a href="https://github.com/farevalod/nodemud" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/farevalod/nodemud</a> (I'd appreciate some comments on it too!)

I think writing a chat app is the rite of passage for node developers at this point.

UI is great. I wrote one serveral days ago, aiming to offer real time chat featute(http:zhonglichat.cnodejs.net), new I see how ugly that is.. Nodejs moke chating really fun.

Isn't this similar to <a href="http://chat.nodejs.org/" rel="nofollow">http://chat.nodejs.org/</a>?

It seems that when the client loses the connection, it doesn't attempt to reconnect.

ugh stop copying the node.js chat code and acting like it's something brand new. this is publicly available on rydahl's github.

ya..save name button does not do anything and it is almost similar to the chat demo of node.js

I can't enter the chat. Save Name button does nothing! I'm on firefox 3.6.17.