June 26, 2006

Gabbly - Just add 'gabbly.com/' in front of any URL & you can have a little chat client spawn in the window. It allows you to chat around any webpage. ItÂ’s free to use! /wonders how long this will last
posted by Chyren 18 years ago
  • Holy crap, this is nifty.
  • very cool toy!
  • Very interesting...
  • On a scale from toasters to Awesome, I rate it a big ol' convection oven of neato!
  • In linky form, we would be here
  • OK, I upgrade from interesting to freaking awesome.
  • 'FIRC FOR EVAR!!!!eleventy!!!!
  • IRC for the lazy *cough*.
  • Don't like it. Sorry.
  • It doesn't like you either. So there.
  • in some ways reminiscent of third voice, which was killed off quite quickly. cool link chy
  • Don't see any point to it, I'm afraid.
  • yeah like there is a point to half the things on the web. Awesome.
  • Very nifty, but now that it's getting linked on a bunch of big-name sites, I wonder if it will stand up to the traffic. If it's still working by the end of the day (U.S. time) I think it'll be huge.
  • Websense says... "Proxy Avoidance! Get back to work!"
  • Monkeyfilter: Don't see any point to it, I'm afraid.
  • Interesting. Even minor changes in the URL will give you a different chat 'room' and history. You can actually be looking at the same page as somebody else, but have a different chat session due to an added 'www.' or '/index.php'
  • Sorry, actually 'www.' doesn't seem to effect it.
  • I can't currently think of a reason why you'd want to know who was viewing a page at the same time as you, but I'm sure one will materialize.
  • And when you leave, it bounces you back to the page you started the chat from. Interesting.
  • nb: doesn't require a valid url to work. Welcome to the Dark(chat)Net. see here Standard javascript 'break out of frames' causes some interesting results but ultimately causes the url you selected with no gabbly see here IIRC this is how ThirdVoice was defeated.
  • @muteboy: WebSense was angry at me as well. Anybody remember Gooey (or something like that) that served the same purpose?
  • I still think it's cool. I don't know that you'd want to use it just to find out who else was visiting a page, but it'd be interesting to be able to discuss the page contents with others in some situations. Like here. Or maybe a favorite political blog. Recipe site?
  • After all, it is basil season!
  • My best guess: If it stays up it could mean the end of forums like monkeyfilter, for Gabbling makes it possible to orchestrate a mob attack on someone. And there seem to be enough trolls-in-waiting and flame-throwers on the internets to make such a possibility feasible.
  • He put Basil in ratatouille?!?!
  • Not only that, he put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong.
  • /kick petebest
  • ***petebest has left http://monkeyfilter.com/link.php/12116 (D'oh!)***
  • Bees, we can already make a mob attack on somebody from IRC. Fact is, we don't.
  • NOTHING can replace the filter. That said, I wonder how long it will take before this triggers a terrorist alert?
  • ven minor changes in the URL will give you a different chat 'room' and history. You can actually be looking at the same page as somebody else, but have a different chat session due to an added 'www.' or '/index.php' This has the potential for all kinds of mischief. That being said, this is really cool.
  • If a bear shits in the woods, is my retirement account affected? No! This seems to have very little use to me.
  • Not saying 'tis what folk have done or are doing now. But I can imagine mayhem resulting from its misuse, Wolof, since history indicates what one person can imagine, another sooner or later is bound to try.
  • Has anybody used it again? First day it was full, but the three times I checked last night, zero monkeys...