Show HN: Fugitive.chat a non-tracking anonymous chat web application

fugitive.chat

I worked on this as an exercise in 1. generating a captcha (not relying on pre-created images that can be spoofed over time) 2. having a countdown refresh timer of 30 seconds completely in CSS 3. No javascript so no ability to track user activity 4. A place for people to publicly and privately chat.

Private chats aren't working yet, but almost.

I haven't touched the project in about six months, but need to get some ideas and feedback to get back into it again.

Thanks

Thats pretty cool, the captcha is really well put together, some times it does cut off the text and I would change it so its not case sensitive.

I like that posts expire after 5 minutes to keep every thing fresh and private, but the user count at the moment is too low to keep the chat going with that limit. You need to figure out a similar limit like only keeping the last 15 messages until you get the user count up? How about every hour a question is posed and the users can discuss it for an hour then all the messages are wiped and a new topic is decided?

The user interface could also use some work. But this is really cool and I can see a lot of potential in it, you should keep working on it.

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