It's even lonelier when you post to a site intended for people who are alone and your post is silently rejected.
Show HN: Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness
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#82I like how it's all in the browser. I'm sick everything requiring an app download. Still, you should be able to just use it from the Desktop. Why force people? Also, why do you need access to my microphone? I really want to post something. I am alone this holiday. But I don't want to give you access to my microphone. Why do you need it? It just looks like text and photos. If I deny access, I can't do anything.
Use an user agent switcher the get around the mobile-only restriction.
You can also just open dev tools and turn on mobile mode.
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#83What people do alone is very interesting and this site does a really good job at capturing that. HN is a place of very constructive and brutal criticism, so you will probably be disciplined on what it should do or what's wrong with it. But in my eyes this is a really interesting piece of art and social media that people like me really appreciate. Keep up the excellent work!
Thank you! That's what Solo is all about.
Please enable https. Its free at letsencrypt
Re: Show HN: Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness
#84Reminds me of this famous forum thread, composed of people who Googled "I am lonely" and found themselves routed to a movie codec site via impressive SEO. https://www.salon.com/2014/11/19/i_am_lonely_will_anyone_spe...
Is there no archive of that thread? archive.org got nothing, archive.is got only the first page..
The forum went down in 2016, where are the archives?
Re: Show HN: Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness
#85The relevance of this on the Holiday season is tragic.
Re: Show HN: Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness
#86There is an easily-fixable bug that breaks it on Firefox,
Change `$('#cameraInput').change(function (e) {` to `$('#cameraInput').change(function (event) {`
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#87This site has an exposed Git directory, so you can clone the whole thing. Funnily enough, it appears to be actually talking to a MySQL database. http://sharesolo.com/get_notes.php Also, all of the credentials are there. I won't post them, but lordy, please close this before your database is wiped.
good on you for pointing out the security hole. i'm still a newb when it comes to it.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
> My experience with nitpicking and semantic parsing on this site says otherwise, and you’re certainly another brick in that wall. There was no nitpicking or cherry picking. The entirety of your comment related to how being alone is a sickness. I pointed out that being alone is not a sickness. I supported this with three healthy comments from the very first page of the site. Instead of actually discussing, you have t…
Original comment I responded to: “Thanks for the feedback. I created this project because I know many people who struggled with loneliness at times in their lives. My hope is that by sharing this experience we’ll feel a sense of connection when we’re alone, and find more acceptance of ourselves and our aloneness, however happy, peaceful, or sad.” You said... The entirety of your comment related to how being alone i…
Your comment was correctly downvoted because it broke the site guidelines. You've been doing this a ton. If you can't or won't stop, we're going to ban your account, even though we appreciate fine submissions like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16001776. Please take the principles of this site to heart and clean up your act if you want to keep commenting here.
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#89Ironic that Facebook is not doing this job!
How could it? No one trusts it. It is literally impossible for Facebook to ever provide an anonymous service of any kind, because they will always be able to implement some algorithm to at least try and associate you with your real identity.
Yeah obviously what I'm portraying as irony is really just the contrast between Facebook's marketing itself as a wonderful new way to "connect" and "share," and the actual truth that it's a surveillance machine.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think there's a difference betweek being alone and being lonely. The latter implies that you're wanting for company, the former less so.
A quote from Michael Mann's Heat: "I'm alone, I am not lonely."
I agree, being alone is not bad at all. Feeling lonely is the problem.
That being sad, I really like the app. Good work :)