[crazygringo]

Maybe I'm missing something but I don't understand the multiplayer aspect -- I'm in the interactive Chrome browser I can play with, but there's nobody else here. I'm not browsing together with anybody.

If it matters, the HN link redirects for me to:

https://threejs-example.hyperbeam.com/672b6071

and the ID at the end stays the same even in incognito.

Since this is on the front page and I've been waiting around for 5 minutes there must be other people using it. How is it supposed to be multiplayer?

EDIT: once I posted this comment somebody else joined, I see how it works now. Very cool. I guess it depends on winding up with a shared ID or something?

[thats-all-folks]

Two weeks on, the thread is closing. Still some traces of activity in the VM. In the interest of site history, https://archive.is/https://pad.riseup.net/p/1_prWgNWMqs-Hu_b...

[thats-all-folks]

Oops, left off the asterisk from the end of the URL. The snapshots of individual versions are under the 'url prefix' listing.

So, the reply period is per-item! Enabling advanced necromancy...

[declan_g]

Right now when you click the link we create a new "room" based on your IP. If you share the generated URL (like you did above) then people can join in and cobrowse with you

[daenz]

Maybe create a default room for the HN crowd to join? I also had the same experience as OP... "nobody is here".

[crazygringo]

Seems like the link with the specific ID in my above comment has become the de-facto shared room now, at least as long as my comment stays at the top :)

[westoncb]

It's not very umm... cooperative, in there lol.

[ambyjkl]

Yea sorry it's our bad, we didn't implement cursor time-slicing in the demo, even though we actually support it on the API: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@hyperbeam/web#setting-permiss...

[westoncb]

Hmm, what I was thinking of was that everyone seemed to be competing with each other to click random UI elements on the virtual browser as rapidly as possible, I assume because there wasn't a way to speak with one another / coordinate. Or maybe I just missed the chat area?

[mgdlbp]

It seems a bit of a community has formed here, with a couple of places for chat without the need of backoff algorithms:

https://pad.riseup.net/p/1_prWgNWMqs-Hu_bIi3I

https://app.kosmi.io/room/m4gsd4

“users, uh, find a way”

There's a couple ways of opening multiple windows, which enables title bar controls on every window. Minimizing and closing them softlocks to a black screen until the instance resets.

[batch12]

People seem to be trying really hard to get porn in the browser. There's a battle going on...

[declan_g]

Gahh thanks for the heads up

[pookeh]

Someone is already doing nmap online on the host

[Moosdijk]

The first thing another user did was go to 4chan. I think the concept is really cool but maybe it needs a little more thought.

[philipscott]

Yeah we didn't anticipate somebody sharing their room in the comments — we're trying our best to moderate that room.

Fingers crossed the board they went on was the papercraft & origami board.

[maliker]

Interesting research question: how to build features to make sharing control less chaotic and potentially moderate abuse.

But the core experience is great. Works flawlessly even on an iPhone. Congrats!

[jonas-w]

It's so funny looking at this room and seeing people tryna exploit it. And talk to each other via the search bar.

[JoeOfTexas]

And its down haha