#chatlr

[kevindrawsart]

Someone made a video on how to use Chatlr. I'm counting this as my fifteen minutes of fame. It's all downhill from here.

[gag12345-blog]

[un-impulse]

hi :)

[thatdeathwilltremble]

WHO DOES THIS EVEN-????

[chatlr]

I received an email from a Chatlr user and I thought I'd share.

I briefly used Chatlr over a year ago, and was impressed by it, in terms of how well it worked and the amount of users on. I'm not trying to sound facetious here, but what happened? Do you know why so many users have stopped using it? It's kind of interesting how users all flock to one product, make it uber popular, and then it just dies down, at no fault of the developers. This has happened with several mobile apps, too. It might be interesting to publish any user data you had, to see if the users gradually came/went away, or flocked there (ie highest number of connected users a day, or something).

The success of Chatlr hinged on Tumblr awareness. If I were to provide an infographic, you'd see a series of peaks and valleys all correlating to groups of Tumblr blogs based on country. I think it started with the United States, then Italy, then Mexico, then Chile, etc. Each previous country group seemed to complain about the new group and the cycle would continue. It was fun to watch.

I think if anything, I released Chatlr with too many performance issues so any initial popularity was sort of destroyed when it would crash hourly. Now I just keep it running because it is a fun project and the only way I actively keep up with Node.JS.

I tend to flock towards projects that leech off of other people's APIs and platforms. I've additionally made a YouTube mixtape, an emerging charts app for SXSW, and a FourSquare Pokemon project, all with varying degrees of success, but they all relied on another API. It's just fun to play with other people's data.

[prospitanmutie]

Chatlr for Homestucks

made a room since Chatlr was lacking in rooms that weren't named after languages or about following people back:  http://chatlr.com/homestuck

woo!~

[prospitanmutie]

Chatlr, why?

Chatlr is not wanting to work for me- at least, I was trying to get on it earlier and it wasn't working... anyhow, I'm going to *attempt* to get on now- see you there maybe? :o

[prospitanmutie]

adventures in chatlr- experience review

hm, I just tested Chatlr a few seconds ago and it was an interesting and unfortunately VERY CRASH PRONE experience; also, it lacks timestamps so the only way one can tell if other users are currently online is if their name appears in green? actually, I'm not sure about that last bit... I'll have to try this when others are there at the same time-

has anyone actually been able to chat successfully on chatlr for a sustained period and if so, were your URL names in green if you were currently online on the site at the same time?