[HN Gopher] Show HN: I learnt how to use WebSockets, made someth...
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       Show HN: I learnt how to use WebSockets, made something
       beautiful/terrible
        
       Author : g105b
       Score  : 71 points
       Date   : 2021-12-29 20:06 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.walloftext.art)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.walloftext.art)
        
       | sokoloff wrote:
       | My first thought was "I could stake my life that I'll see some
       | ASCII penises on this". Was amused to see just how right that
       | assumption was.
        
       | mikehall314 wrote:
       | I worked on a similar little project about 10 years ago. We
       | called it 300 Lines. It was a shared public canvas which
       | displayed only the last 300 lines drawn.
       | 
       | We used socket.io to sync between the client and a NodeJS
       | backend. (The whole thing was really an experiment to get to
       | grips with the then-nascent Node v0.4)
       | 
       | Of course it was horribly abused, and we took it down after only
       | a few days.
        
       | exikyut wrote:
       | So what'd The Internet People(tm) do to it, exactly?
       | 
       | DDoS the WebSocket server? Write Very Bad URLs? Worse? :(
       | 
       | I wanted to see. Not fair, takers away of nice things. >:/
        
       | camhart wrote:
       | I don't see any messages being sent across the websocket. Is it
       | down?
        
         | g105b wrote:
         | yeah :( the hacker news hug of death...
        
           | onefuncman wrote:
           | what broke?
        
             | ncfausti wrote:
             | I think it's the server here:
             | 
             | wss://www.walloftext.art/ws.php
             | 
             | Doesn't seem to be accepting connections when I try.
        
               | exikyut wrote:
               | WebSockets in PHP huh? That's a pretty cool approach,
               | although it naturally scales terribly (sadly D:).
        
       | ncphil wrote:
       | A valiant effort: one that has me thinking the New Years' weekend
       | may be the time for me to refresh my own WebSockets knowledge.
       | Thanks much for the inspiration!
        
       | Antrikshy wrote:
       | Vaguely reminds me of my own web sockets project from years ago,
       | https://quibbler.co.
        
         | allen-munsch wrote:
         | very cool. would be nice to be able to spin separate rooms for
         | meeting Q and A, or in the moment commenting. it's an
         | interesting take on commenting.
         | 
         | like comment threading, timeouts, mental map like comment
         | grouping.
         | 
         | like evernote and visual programming, but for short lived
         | comments,
        
       | madmod wrote:
       | RIP. Well it was fun while it lasted.
        
         | quickthrower2 wrote:
         | After an hour? Not bad for another 4chan isomorph submitted to
         | HN.
        
       | pjot wrote:
       | This looks similar to yourworldoftext[0] that was posted a few
       | weeks ago. Very cool.
       | 
       | [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29576394
        
       | davidw wrote:
       | I can't write letters like e using the normal composition method
       | (altGr) on Linux; I guess it's grabbing keystrokes directly. No
       | big deal.
       | 
       | What'd you write it in?
        
       | g105b wrote:
       | This last week I've been isolating due to contracting COVID at
       | Christmas. Not fun... With my time recovering in bed, I finished
       | off learning about WebSockets by building
       | https://www.walloftext.art and uploaded the code to
       | https://github.com/g105b/text with a description of how it works
       | and what I've learnt.
       | 
       | The intention was to make the most minimal project that tested
       | the bidirectional communication of WebSockets. The end product is
       | a scrollable grid that allows users to type anonymous comments.
       | Of course this is already getting abused, but that's part of the
       | fun! Anyway, I'd appreciate your feedback on the code, and if
       | there are any ideas of how to make the end product any
       | better/more fun/less crude.
        
       | sanqui wrote:
       | Is this perchance inspired by https://www.yourworldoftext.com/? I
       | remember reading an interesting technical writeup when that went
       | out -- it was early days for websocket. It might be interesting
       | to compare how both are built.
        
         | neoncontrails wrote:
         | My first thought was "vintage Facebook" actually -- back when
         | it was called _the_ Facebook and open only to university
         | students. The wall was a beautifully chaotic thing, basically a
         | text file to which all your friends had read/write access.
         | Definitely no web sockets involved, though.
        
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