VCU – See and chat with all users browsing the same website at the same time

28 points by Niklaz 2 months ago | 12 comments

Chihuahua0633 2 months ago | next |

Solid endorsement from the site: "Very creepy and uncomfortable but so cool and interesting!" Martina (User #18)

Niklaz 2 months ago | root | parent |

"It is what it is" ;)

derelicta 2 months ago | prev | next |

Lovely concept. Just gotta wait until its released for Firefox.

Niklaz 2 months ago | root | parent |

Thank you so much! Yes I'm working on it ;)

2 months ago | prev | next |

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AstroJetson 2 months ago | prev | next |

Tried this for about 10 mins and then figured out that it was publishing my browser history on the VCU site. So pretty much done with that for now.

big-chungus4 2 months ago | root | parent |

where did you find that?

wyre 2 months ago | prev | next |

I think about how cool something like this would be, pretty frequently. Hopefully, you have plans on porting the add-on to Safari.

lykkeT 2 months ago | prev | next |

Very cool

Niklaz 2 months ago | root | parent |

Thanks!

sn0n 2 months ago | prev |

Welcome to 1997.... Literally

netsharc 2 months ago | root | parent |

The program to do this back then was called uTOK. I think it acted as a local HTTP (who needs the S ;-) ) proxy and would intercept requests and inject its HTML so you have a hovering DIV on the page with people's comments. I remember seeing people comment on CNN news articles.

Ah, imagine the toxicity if that's around nowadays.

Edit: ah it had its own window:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160801064255/https://alumni.me...