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Since I made this, I'm glad some people like it (and not surprised some don't) but I'd love to answer some technical questions or hear any bugs / issues / security holes you hackers might have found. Cheers!

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It feels like I'm being spammed, there isn't enough time to read the messages and its also getting flooded by people with the usernames flood and flooder.

Ya, I tried to implement rate limiting and failed, this was last night at 3am, so let me try again. If you code you might be able to beat me to it: https://github.com/Mashape/worldchat

I'm going out but when I get home I will see what I can do :) EDIT: I think using websockets + node.js would be a better idea.

JavaScript in the body of the message box executes 0.o very cool none-the-less.

Only for you, it gets filtered before going over the wire. Have fun :)

Should still be sanitizing user input, there's no reason to be passing the message as an html variable in handlebars {{{message}}} :/

You trust your server-side sanitization that much?

Do you trust the client side at all?

I trust handlebars with all my user inputs.

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