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Chat Roulette Removed?

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35 pointskeltecp1116 comments

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

Welcome to Web 3.0.

That's funny.

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...

This is why IDE's are a bad idea.

Ever since chatroulette has been down, my site, 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.

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.

Sounds like an opportunity to me.

You're behind the news:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/38833555/

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.

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"?

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 . Which, ofcourse, is a little more extensive compared to CR 1.0.

(Also see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1626783 )

[Edit: grammar]

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

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.

if need a similar site, try omegle.com

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

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