Show HN: ChatStep - Online Group Chat

Woot! I created a room. :-)<p><a href="https://chatstep.com/#HackerNews" rel="nofollow">https://chatstep.com/#HackerNews</a>

Wow. Looks pretty amazing guys. Love the bitcoin donation links. beautiful interface too; Can't wait to use it in the bitcoin community

Please don't use obscure ports for the sockets (aka tcp:4000).<p>1) many corporate/etc firewalls filter these type of packets<p>2) my personal reaction when the browser requests access to a socket on an unusual port is "Deny". Which is just what I did, and of course then there is no notification to me that it failed or any way to create/join a room.

It works nicely with Ubuntu 12.04 and Chrome. The response time us fast, even with images and youtube videos. On youtube, if you paste a link such as<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=l8rxJRsINU4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=l8rxJRsINU4</a><p>that does a full-screen video, instead of<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8rxJRsINU4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8rxJRsINU4</a><p>you don't get the embedded functionality - suggest you capture the _popup segment and remove it for consistency of display

Great site. We will always have <a href="http://petscollect.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/funny-white-kitten.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://petscollect.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/funny-whit...</a> ;)

using windows 7 and chrome - can't create or join rooms<p>edit: now realizing it's probably corporate FW related, blocking port 4000

Why/how is this better than web IRC?

What's the technology behind this?

secure, beautiful; where can I download it from?