[Hilo Oficial] chatroulette.com

Last updated 3/12/2010

The creator of Chatroulette has contacted us and let us know
that he finds the site enjoyable.

Q: Why doesn't the site ever update!?

A: Updates aren't automatically scheduled, we hit the update button
when a decent number of updates are queued. We also have to parse
through images before hand to remove duplicates/blanks

Q: Why are some points in the water?

A: In an effort to un-group points which were mapping to the same
lat/lng, we've added a small degree of 'jitter' to marker placement,
which also may push points which are near a body of water slightly
off land

Q: Is this legit or are you randomly placing images?

A: Photo placement is as legitimate as IP -> geocoords results
were able to produce. All images are captured by us.

Q: How does it work?

A: Chatroulette utilizes Adobe's Stratus platform as a means of
reducing their bandwidth costs while providing video services.

Chatroulette mearly handles the behind the scenes handshakes
involved in making two clients connect, the actual connection
however is a peer-to-peer link between the two users.

Edit: Andrey from CR has informed me that the site does fallback
to server-based connections when Stratus fails, forcing him to
continuously add dedicated RTMP servers to support growth.

Q: How is the mash up generated?

A: We utilize MarkerClusterer to group results together, otherwise
the amount of points being drawn quickly brought the browser
to a snails pace. We recommend trying MarkerClusterer out if you
are dealing with large volumes of points in a Google Maps project.

We also fiddled with the stripped down MarkerLight component, it
also provides a significant performance gain over the default marker
implementation, check it out!

Q: How can I get an image removed?

A: Email us directly, chatroulettemap@gmail.com, we read every
piece of mail which passes through and handle them accordingly.

Please note that in most cases we do ask that you include some form
of proof that matches you with the image you wish to have removed.

Q: How can I rate photos?

A: You will be able to rate photos at some point, the feature is already
complete, but was disabled during the switch to MarkerClusterer

Q: Can I filter the map by X?

A: Sometime soon, maybe. We do plan to attempt to flag all of the offensive
images, or allow for community flagging, in the hope of allowing users
to disable/enable seeing said images.