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yethiel

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About yethiel

Marv dev who studied digital humanities and loves coffee, synths and simple software

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    I'm working on escape93, a life simulator with an in-game OS. It has a working web browser, an MS Paint clone and more. Also, earth has been evacuated, up and down no longer exists…

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    Comment #47016730

    Update: You can now browse through webrings and create your own! https://webrings.paperboat.website/

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    Comment #46976145

    Thank you! I like the ideas and will think about it. I'm working on a concept for webrings which can be used to discover new sites. They'll work like this: A webring consists of mu…

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    Thank you! And I agree that it's technically not that impressive. Posting it here was very special for me. First of all, I got tons of valuable feedback and questions. It's also th…

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    Comment #46964855

    Yeah, that's always the big question. You'll have to take my word for it. I spent many years in the Re-Volt community (racing game from the 90s). This is what lead me to become a p…

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    Comment #46964641

    Good points! paperboat.website is very simple and focuses on friends sharing their blog posts which each other, which helps limit regular users' exposure to potential malicious act…

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    Comment #46963726

    Thank you! bearblog was a huge inspiration for me. They have many similarities but the main differences are a block-based editor and a feed that shows the most recent posts of the …

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    Comment #46963678

    Definitely a huge inspiration! For global discovery, I'm working on a webring-like feature. Unless users really want it, I'll steer clear of a global feed for now because I'd like …

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    Comment #46963615

    Thank you so much! The content will always be owned by the users. I'll never use their content commercially and I will also never sell the platform. The page content is stored as M…

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    Thank you so much!

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    Comment #46962971

    Hi HN! My name is Marv and I made paperboat.website, a friendly platform for personal websites and blogs. I wanted to create a place for sharing interesting things with your friend…

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