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by declan_g 1390 days ago
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
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daenz 1390 days ago
Maybe create a default room for the HN crowd to join? I also had the same experience as OP... "nobody is here".
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crazygringo 1390 days ago
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 :)
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westoncb 1390 days ago
It's not very umm... cooperative, in there lol.
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ambyjkl 1390 days ago
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...
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westoncb 1390 days ago
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?
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philipscott 1390 days ago
Yeah we kept the MVP lean and didn't add chat or audio/video calling. Our goal (which we're not meeting) is to keep the Three.js example line count below 200.

https://github.com/hyperbeam/threejs-example

We'll probably make a new project which is more of a product and less of a code example in the future.

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