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24 pointsjorgeortiz8514 comments

http://www.chatterous.com/landing/hnyc/

Passcode: hcker

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Why make me enter my full name? I hate, hate, hate giving out my name on Web sites that don't need it. My internet identity is my username.

speaking of which, there should be a 24/7 IRC room for YC. something like #hackernews on freenode?

The Chatterous group is 24/7 as well.

Am I wrong to assume that in the chatterous web chat, everyone in the group receives the updates by default, either be it SMS etc? I don't want to use it too much if I feel like people will get annoyed by getting my every update.

To me it seems like reinventing the wheel for chat in this case. Yes, chatterous is great for getting a group of friends together to plan something like a dinner and have all the updates go out to everyone.. but for a regular web chat I don't see how this is any better than IRC.

".. but for a regular web chat I don't see how this is any better than IRC."

I can connect to Chatterous rooms using the ways I already communicate - IM, SMS, Email, etc. I don't use IRC often (and neither do most people, I suspect). For the die-hard IRC user, Chatterous is probably not that different. For people that want an easier way to chat in real-time without changing existing user behavior, it's great.

Alright, I guess I'm just biased having been an IRC junkie in the day. Also, is it just me or is there a noticeable lag? although that might just be gtalk to the website

It's our polling interval. We can probably change that.

Freenode is still one of the primary hubs for a lot of open source action, so for those of us that are linked up to open source communities, an IRC channel is similarly convenient.

Easy enough. I'm in.

I think it's #startups (or #startup) on freenode.

very cool service, I can just imagine so many uses for this.

What's the username?

You should create an account.

I think I like this service.

I prefer IRC more, simply because of how I can make IRC look. (I like my chat clients plain and simple).

But I will definately use it.

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