ssh-chat
Consumer and social
chat rooms
SHOW HN2014
171points
45comments
#129of 2,272 in 2014
Top 6%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
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8 positive, 18 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 31 comments about the project. Thread score +0.09.
Idea: 8 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Cool concept and nostalgic for IRC/telechat/BBS days.
From 4 comments
Reminds me of the good old days of telechat. I was wondering if there was a way to set up a "login" free SSH server, glad someone else figured it out :)
codezero on HNReminds me of the old ircii days. Very basic client, I like it!
zifnab06 on HNAdd some ANSI color, a message board section, stir, and you've got a BBS! k-rad!
chuckup on HNneat!
Aloha on HN
Potential for sysadmin internal communication.
From 1 comment
Awesome work. I love it. I really think that this sort of thing could be extremely useful in some specific cases, for example for internal communication from sysadmins in…
scrollaway on HN
Objections
Server hangs and is flooded by spam; no spam controls.
From 3 comments
A not-so-subtle reminder to people who are "curious" and want to break things: It's open source. Install it locally and break it to your heart's content. If you're flooding the…
shazow on HNVery interesting, although it seems to be broken at the moment. It connects and then just kind of hangs (connecting with the latest SSH client in arch). It's a cool concept though.
jimnutt on HNUsername "dump" flooded the server. Service is dead until restart.
medecau on HN
Keystrokes sent to server cause input lag.
From 1 comment
Cool! Can you hook a full ncurses up to this? Going by my input lag, it looks like all keypresses are sent to the server, can you implement readline somehow or can i configure…
mappu on HN
Long lines wrap and get obscured by incoming messages.
From 2 comments
Cool! Can you hook a full ncurses up to this? Going by my input lag, it looks like all keypresses are sent to the server, can you implement readline somehow or can i configure…
mappu on HN>> If i write a line that's longer than my terminal width, it wraps onto a second line, but new incoming messages obscure the first line > Yea, there's a bug with long line…
yebyen on HN
Requests
Add readline or local input buffering.
From 1 comment
Cool! Can you hook a full ncurses up to this? Going by my input lag, it looks like all keypresses are sent to the server, can you implement readline somehow or can i configure…
mappu on HN
Support full ncurses interfaces.
From 2 comments
Cool! Can you hook a full ncurses up to this? Going by my input lag, it looks like all keypresses are sent to the server, can you implement readline somehow or can i configure…
mappu on HN> Can you hook a full ncurses up to this? Yup! Any ncurses thing should work great. I couldn't find a golang curses lib that doesn't hardcode to stdout except for…
shazow on HN
Add ANSI color and other features.
From 2 comments
Add some ANSI color, a message board section, stir, and you've got a BBS! k-rad!
chuckup on HNHere's a screenshot somebody took of it running on a Cathode terminal: https://twitter.com/shazow/status/543587063765823490 We've had some pull requests since then which add…
shazow on HN
Questions
How to exit the chat?
From 1 comment
How to exit?
motyar on HN
Why are Permission denied errors occurring?
From 1 comment
This should be called "SIRC" ^_^ If anyone else has "Permission denied" run this command: ssh-keygen -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa
tux on HN
Is SSH agent forwarding a privacy risk?
From 1 comment
A little warning: You should turn off SSH Agent Forwarding for this host. Otherwise it may use your SSH Keys to auth to other servers you connect to via SSH, e.g. GitHub git…
flac on HN
Alternatives named
IRC
From 2 comments
Why not tunnel IRC through this and get all the benefits of a seasoned IRC server?
jensenbox on HNhah cool
edibleEnergy on HN
Telechat and BBS systems
From 2 comments
Reminds me of the good old days of telechat. I was wondering if there was a way to set up a "login" free SSH server, glad someone else figured it out :)
codezero on HNAdd some ANSI color, a message board section, stir, and you've got a BBS! k-rad!
chuckup on HN
Mosh for latency masking
From 1 comment
> Can you hook a full ncurses up to this? Yup! Any ncurses thing should work great. I couldn't find a golang curses lib that doesn't hardcode to stdout except for…
shazow on HN