Show HN: An Etherpad clone in Node.js and Socket.io

I am always amazed by what people do when they're given anonymity and collaborative text editors - rarely positively. But this seems particularly bad.

Is HN really so many twelve year olds (behaviorally, if not in calendar years)?

From https://github.com/JacksonGariety/Yugen/blob/master/routes.j...

  res.redirect(crypto.randomBytes(3).toString('hex'))

You probably already know this, but you'd probably want to replace that with a unique id generator, like perhaps MongoID or a timestamp or something.

You should wrap your JS in an anonymous function. People can just emit sockets from the console.

e.g.

socket.emit('msg', "text here");

Etherpad is open source already. As is EtherpadLite (EPL), its node.js rewrite.

I had this opened in a tab and initially forgot what it was.. I thought it was some sort of artificial intelligence or ASCII movie, because it seems 1001 griefers are copy/pasting trash into it right now :-)

Perhaps try a different URL of http://yugentext.com/hn or whatever if you want to see it without it going at 30 fps..

Game idea: Number of grammatically correct sentences times the amount of connected users = points.

If I click the link and wait a few minutes I start to see someone else's message. It last for only a second and then vanishes.

This is so cooool

etherpad-lite is node.js and socket.io

Welp. That didn't take very long.

Share.js is pretty cool too

Question for moderators...

I made a mistake by linking directly to an editor. A mod should change the URL to just yugentext.com without the /0a9617.

Would save this post from the spammers.