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by pjgomez 4648 days ago
Another great project from Mozilla, congratulations. I'll definitely give it a try.

Sorry to blow my own horn, but a few months ago we launched a similar project called Quolony https://quolony.com (we are a small startup from Salamanca, Spain). Right now we are working as a free service and we plan to publish it as open-source in the next few months. People can use it individually using a browser extension or in whole sites including our library. We have avatars, synchronized text selection, private and public chats, persistence, cobrowsing, file transfers and a lot more.

Some samples: https://quolony.com/demos/photomess/ (drag and drop) https://quolony.com/demos/quolony/developers/ (shared demo)

At the low level, we extend the browser event model to make it easier to use it in existing applications.

I hope you guys can give it a try and tell me what you think.

Kudos mozilla!

[EDITED: fixed linked]

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I've been helping test Quolony for a while and the potential for this technology is great. In particular using it as a browser extension with the instant link sharing and cobrowsing gives those otherwise solitary web browsing sessions a certain feel of the metaverse that could be. As the meme goes, this puts Internet on your Internet.
Tried to enter as "guest"

    exception 'Q\Exception' with message 'Invalid auth provider' in /data/quolony/1.1.beta.1785/code/lib/Quolony/q.core.php:2444
    Stack trace:
    #0 [internal function]: Q\{closure}(Object(Q\Exception))
    #1 {main}
Still working to solve this, meanwhile you can enter as guest at https://quolony.com and then visit https://quolony.com/demos/photomess/ or https://quolony.com/demos/quolony/developers/
Sorry about that :( we'll look into it