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Chat Roulette Removed?

35 points by keltecp11 16y ago

studer 16y ago
You're behind the news: http://www.cnbc.com/id/38833555/ http://www.cnbc.com/id/38833555/
- greyman 16y ago
  Why so? This article doesn't reveal anything new... I think the poster was asking whether Chatroulette is abandoned, since the new version was announced to be running "tomorrow", then "today", and then "shortly"...while it is already several day in this state.
  - studer 16y ago
    Anything new compared to what? There was plenty of background information in the article, and definitely more info than in the OP's "is this site down?" link to the site that is down. Or was this an "Ask HN"?
Kilimanjaro 16y ago
view-source: loading four js libraries just to show one line of text?
- sprout 16y ago
  Welcome to Web 3.0.
- lhnz 16y ago
  That's funny.
- joshfinnie 16y ago
  I call this the textmate syndrom. It is too easy to have text programs today give you a standard start to your webpages with just a few hotkeys. Why would you go back and delete the js libraries if you want to just write one line of text? It becomes slower to...
  - points 16y ago
    This is why IDE's are a bad idea.
c00p3r 16y ago
"acquired" by some Russian men in power, I guess. ^_^
thiele 16y ago
They put up the announcement last week and it said a new version would be released "tomorrow". Obviously, that didn't happen, but it seems like a new version is immenent.
sssparkkk 16y ago
They do sure take their sweet time with the new version. In the meantime we're catching quite a few of former CR users on http://www.blurrypeople.com http://www.blurrypeople.com . Which, ofcourse, is a little more extensive compared to CR 1.0. (Also see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1626783 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1626783 ) [Edit: grammar]
- pbhjpbhj 16y ago
  Ever heard of CSS sprites? The initial load of the mic-off image and the like could easily be avoided.
podman 16y ago
Ever since chatroulette has been down, my site, http://www.boostcam.com http://www.boostcam.com, which I had made as an experiment when flash 10.0 was still in beta and the p2p functionality was just released, has been getting a lot of traffic. I think people think it's a chatroulette clone (it's not). I watch as people wait, in vain, for someone else to join their chat.
- podman 16y ago
  I don't really mind their confusion though. Over the past 7 days, I've made around $200 in adsense revenue. It was quite a shock to log in and see that.
- kls 16y ago
  Sounds like an opportunity to me.
denik 16y ago
if need a similar site, try omegle.com

35 points by keltecp11 16y ago

studer 16y ago

You're behind the news: http://www.cnbc.com/id/38833555/ http://www.cnbc.com/id/38833555/

greyman 16y ago
Why so? This article doesn't reveal anything new... I think the poster was asking whether Chatroulette is abandoned, since the new version was announced to be running "tomorrow", then "today", and then "shortly"...while it is already several day in this state.
- studer 16y ago
  Anything new compared to what? There was plenty of background information in the article, and definitely more info than in the OP's "is this site down?" link to the site that is down. Or was this an "Ask HN"?

Kilimanjaro 16y ago

view-source: loading four js libraries just to show one line of text?

sprout 16y ago
Welcome to Web 3.0.
lhnz 16y ago
That's funny.
joshfinnie 16y ago
I call this the textmate syndrom. It is too easy to have text programs today give you a standard start to your webpages with just a few hotkeys. Why would you go back and delete the js libraries if you want to just write one line of text? It becomes slower to...
- points 16y ago
  This is why IDE's are a bad idea.

c00p3r 16y ago

"acquired" by some Russian men in power, I guess. ^_^

thiele 16y ago

They put up the announcement last week and it said a new version would be released "tomorrow". Obviously, that didn't happen, but it seems like a new version is immenent.

sssparkkk 16y ago

They do sure take their sweet time with the new version. In the meantime we're catching quite a few of former CR users on http://www.blurrypeople.com http://www.blurrypeople.com . Which, ofcourse, is a little more extensive compared to CR 1.0. (Also see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1626783 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1626783 ) [Edit: grammar]

pbhjpbhj 16y ago
Ever heard of CSS sprites? The initial load of the mic-off image and the like could easily be avoided.

podman 16y ago

Ever since chatroulette has been down, my site, http://www.boostcam.com http://www.boostcam.com, which I had made as an experiment when flash 10.0 was still in beta and the p2p functionality was just released, has been getting a lot of traffic. I think people think it's a chatroulette clone (it's not). I watch as people wait, in vain, for someone else to join their chat.

podman 16y ago
I don't really mind their confusion though. Over the past 7 days, I've made around $200 in adsense revenue. It was quite a shock to log in and see that.
kls 16y ago
Sounds like an opportunity to me.

denik 16y ago

if need a similar site, try omegle.com