Show HN: Instant, Self-Destructing Websites • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Instant, Self-Destructing Websites

#51

Post by NickNaraghi » Tue, Sep 24, 2019, 2:53 AM UTC

Love this, really fun idea.

It would be nice to have a setting that prevents a password from being added to the page.

Right now, all it takes to end the fun of an unpassworded page is for a bad actor to add a password (see: https://sdnotes.com/index)

Re: Show HN: Instant, Self-Destructing Websites

#52

Post by shtack » Tue, Sep 24, 2019, 3:52 AM UTC

A similar idea that we're working on: https://pocketweb.io/

Re: Show HN: Instant, Self-Destructing Websites

#53

Post by nessunodoro » Tue, Sep 24, 2019, 4:13 AM UTC

unkulunkulu wrote: post #32

Loughla wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This sentiment is actually what originally drew me to places like 4chan on the internet. If you miss it, you just miss it. I felt like I legit HAD to be on the board or else I would miss the best joke or thread. No idea what that's called. Maybe hipsterism? I liked to know that what I'm seeing is authentic, real, and limited (even if it was technically available to everyone in the world).

Immediacy?

temporal uniqueness. Art in a museum is locked in a gated vault, like a website is locked to a version number. Ephemera is when you walk past your favorite street art and a piece of the pasted image was scraped or defaced, or when another artist or rando with a pen or a can added something in response. An ephemeral website is one that you hope will be different when you refresh it. There's an element of chance and the content is the reward. To an extent, aggregators have long embodied this characteristic I feel.