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by naiquevin 4874 days ago
Yes, it's websockets. You can check it in Chrome by keeping the console open and refreshing the page. Would be interesting to test in IE.

BTW, as much as I am amazed to see websockets in action, the real time updating of vote count feels creepy and distracting at the same time :-)
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ck2 4874 days ago
It makes me feel more connected though.

As long as it's not abused I think it's a clever use.

Have to research how to setup websocket server.

This looks like an impressive project http://socket.io/

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mattmanser 4874 days ago
Yeah, I guess we're going to see a lot more bad UX abuse of this in the near future. It's very distracting.
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