[halb]

Ten years ago, I made a very stupid website: a public chat that anyone can join, where you can communicate only in morse code, by tapping a single button.

Since then, I've been surprised to see a large community grow around it. More and more people are picking up morse code every day, and they appear to come from all over the world, and from all age groups.

[helterskelter]

This is what I've been looking for! I've wanted to learn CW for years now but had nobody to talk to and the idea of going on public airwaves without any CW experience except practice drills didn't do a whole lot to motivate me.

[runamuck]

This site makes me cackle with joy because of my failed attempts. Kind of like "QWOP."

[etrautmann]

I think I just joined an eternal September on your site. It might be nice to add a practice mode that doesn’t spam everyone with nonsense.

[lioeters]

There's a "training" channel where you can practice without annoying the more fluent users. You can choose the channel with the select menu at the top of the page, where it says "ch1". I belong there for a while.

[ryanmcbride]

I respect you not linking the website to farm clicks. That said, drop the website link please.

[lioeters]

Found it: https://morse.halb.it/

Source: https://github.com/robalb/morsechat

[venusenvy47]

Is it supposed to have audio? I didn't hear anything.

[dlgeek]

I heard incoming audio after I keyed once.

[ryanmcbride]

makes sense most browsers don't allow autoplaying sound without interaction first.

[helterskelter]

Takes a few seconds for audio to start.

[smalltorch]

I tried, its hard even knowing exactly what to press.

[vgx-dev]

This site is great. I've bookmarked it.

[braden-lk]

this is difficult! :D

[devin]

The other side of it may be that the community that has grown around it is now just going to be annoyed by a bunch of people writing gibberish in their chat for the better part of 24 hours. :)

[dmoy]

Well for their sake hopefully it's just September and not Eternal September.

[ryanmcbride]

I've been hearing "Eternal September" for a few things over the past few days what does that mean? Just annoyance at new users or tourists or what?

[tokai]

Yeah it mean exactly that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

[AngryData]

The september is the tourist season. Eternal september is when tourist season completely overtakes the previous communities cultures and standards and style permanently, generally through exponential growth that exceeds the old guard's ability to impress the already established culture on newcomers.