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Create a disposable chat room with ChatMaker
There's no registration required. In fact, there's not even an option to create an account, which means that when you login to a chat room you'll have an unwieldy name like Guest 1817. But you can easily change your name using the IRC-like /nick command. You can also designate actions by typing /me, but that's about it for the IRC commands.
ChatMaker also supports some basic HTML commands like <a> for providing a hyperlink, <i> for italics, and <strong> for bold. While ChatMaker probably isn't going to win any awards for its interface, the service could be the easiest we've ever seen for setting up a multi-user chatroom.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
joey said 10:45AM on 1-31-2008
Yo we got to chat homies. Im out.
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Big John said 8:21PM on 1-21-2008
I'm not seeing anything to make a room... just a login page.
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Brad Linder said 8:24PM on 1-21-2008
Sorry about that, I had a typo in the URL. It should point to chatmaker.net, not chatmaker.com.
Big John said 8:38PM on 1-21-2008
No problems, thanks for the fix! Didn't notice the difference myself :-P
Big John said 11:41PM on 1-21-2008
Just tried this. I'm a member of some forums that are politically active, so we decided to give it a spin to talk about tonight's Democratic primaries live. After about 10 users it got really sluggish. Good for small groups, bad for medium or large groups.
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Chris Brogan... said 11:54PM on 1-21-2008
I dragged about 60 or so people into a room from Twitter, and it performed admirably. We couldn't get it to crash under that number o' folks. Lots of good response from people.
One suggestion for usability: make it *really* explicit how one changes their username/nickname. I got it right off, but lots of folks balked at that early on, so we spent lots of cycles telling newcomers what to do.
Otherwise, nifty, easy, and cool.
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masa said 8:55AM on 1-22-2008
Thanks for this application, it' s interesting ;)
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