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Re: Show HN: Nightchamber, a slow-web social site

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Post by s_kilk » Wed, Jan 14, 2015, 9:07 AM UTC

kylestlb wrote: post #26

s_kilk wrote: post #14

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I like the idea of a random, or semi-random, feed of content that the user has no real control over. You don't get to build yourself an echo-chamber. It's actually mostly inspired by postsecret.com in that way. People submit things, a feed is generated (or curated, in the case of PostSecret). EDIT: I think later on we could introduce a form of upvoting, which would influence the odds of a given thought (or further th…

How about restrict the upvoting too? You're only allowed to upvote/recommend a single post per day :)

Yes, I think the upvotes would be restricted in the same way as posting thoughts.

Re: Show HN: Nightchamber, a slow-web social site

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Post by heuermh » Wed, Jan 14, 2015, 7:45 PM UTC

Interesting idea. Appears that whitespace is not preserved by the editor though; another vote for supporting medium-to-long-form posts.

Re: Show HN: Nightchamber, a slow-web social site

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Post by s_kilk » Wed, Jan 14, 2015, 9:23 PM UTC

heuermh wrote: post #42

Interesting idea. Appears that whitespace is not preserved by the editor though; another vote for supporting medium-to-long-form posts.

I'm actually working on a fix for that just now :)

Will be deployed shortly, pending tests.

EDIT: and it's deployed to Live. Enjoy!

Re: Show HN: Nightchamber, a slow-web social site

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Post by s_kilk » Wed, Jan 14, 2015, 9:25 PM UTC

bovermyer wrote: post #29

tenpoundhammer wrote: post #3

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I'm confused about why a person would want to use this? If I only get a random "tweet" every 24 hours that lacks context, I don't see myself coming back often. Two suggestions: 1. Allow the user to configure how often they get new thoughts. 2. Allow voting so that hopefully the random thoughts that are actually worth reading propagate out and people are reading something worth reading.

As long as this doesn't become a playground of spam, I could see it as being a great place to get inspiration for... just about anything. For example, I shared my recipe for eggnog just now. That could be useful for someone, right?

Sure, why not? We could all do with a little more eggnog in our lives.