Show HN: TalkTalkTalk – An easy-to-install small chat room, with chat history

[josephernest]

https://github.com/josephernest/talktalktalk

[rpdillon]

This is a really good example of how you can obtain 80% of the value of huge, complex apps with 1% of the code. It feels like the open source/self-hosted/simple app market it is probably under-served. Chat is one example, but another is a small, simple 'social network' for a team, group of friends, or family.

[mentos → rpdillon]

ha yea but also an example that the last 20% is 80% of the work

the chat right now needs features to prevent abuse

[flukus → mentos]

> the chat right now needs features to prevent abuse

Does it? It sounds like this is built for internal corporate/team use where this isn't a problem.

[josephernest → mentos]

totally true: abuse/flood control will be the next additions. ideas welcome about how do to it.

[saint_fiasco → josephernest]

What about ROBOT9000?

https://blog.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-a...

[alexdumitru]

You should add some antispam, at least.

I was able to keep your server down by using only this:

> setInterval( function () { for(i=0;i<=9999; i++) { ws.send(JSON.stringify({ type: 'message', username: $('#username').text(), message: 'seems like the ws server is fucked. stop spamming' })); } }, 1000);

[josephernest → alexdumitru]

This small chat is intented for a small team, not for global internet usage like I do here :) Usually in a small team there is no spammer, and if there is one, he's banned quickly from the team :)

But yes, I'm open to contribution about antispam / flood control. Constructive additions appreciated :)

[vmorgulis → josephernest]

I like a log the design.

https://github.com/josephernest/talktalktalk/blob/master/tal...

I think you could escape the text from #writing before sending it.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/4835406

[josephernest → vmorgulis]

Well the real cleaning / sanitizing part has to be done on the server... I'll work on this in the next weeks, after some other more important projects... This is just a proof-of-concept fun project anyway :)

[josephernest → alexdumitru]

Thanks @alexdumitru for pointing me this. I implemented a basic flood control (https://github.com/josephernest/talktalktalk/commit/43877bd1...), and now such a script doesn't work anymore. Of course you can then do another script that would automatically reconnect after being kicked out, etc.

[josephernest]

everyone is discussing there http://185.164.138.19:7311/ (live demo), so nobody is discussing here :/

[fiatjaf → josephernest]

Joseph was very angry because everybody were using the name "joseph" yesterday.

Don't be angry!

[josephernest → fiatjaf]

i wasn't angry actually, maybe the angry "joseph" was another one ;) this troll session helped me to think about flood control, etc.

[equasar → josephernest]

Someone crashed the server haha.

[josephernest → equasar]

Very funny indeed :)

Someone can be very very very proud of crashing my super-low-end 6€/year sandbox VPS with 256 MB of RAM... Waw, he's probably a very good hacker :)

[pasbesoin]

Thank you. Look forward to playing with / using this.

Reminds me of using Jabber years ago with a couple of friends. Not for the protocol, but for the clean interface and essentially having "our own place".

Something I've a pretty strong hankering for, these days.

[ausjke]

add abuse control, log archive, image inserting then it will be golden

[mrjustaine]

Is it open for bots?

[josephernest → mrjustaine]

Yes. You can talk in this chat with JS : ws.send(...).