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Re: Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants

#21

Cool app, but I really love the style. Is there a name for this kind of style? There’s a common theme here with sites like https://glitch.com . I love it, so it would be nice to put a name to it. Also reminds me of https://sourcehut.org , but to a lesser degree. Big fan of that design too!

Another example: https://dev.to/

Re: Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants

#22

Cool app, but I really love the style. Is there a name for this kind of style? There’s a common theme here with sites like https://glitch.com . I love it, so it would be nice to put a name to it. Also reminds me of https://sourcehut.org , but to a lesser degree. Big fan of that design too!

Kind of a user interface flavor of the Memphis Milano style that was popular in the 80s (including with 80s Apple).

Re: Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants

#23

Cool app, but I really love the style. Is there a name for this kind of style? There’s a common theme here with sites like https://glitch.com . I love it, so it would be nice to put a name to it. Also reminds me of https://sourcehut.org , but to a lesser degree. Big fan of that design too!

Pop art? It reminds me a bit of Warhol's stuff.

Re: Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants

#24

Cool design, but the idea of messages disappearing after they're typed makes it practically pointless for general use. There would be a lot of other ways to accomplish similar functionality of keeping the most recently typed messages active, without removing them completely.

While I agree it's practically pointless for general use - that's basically the point, and I love the take they've chosen on it.

I definitely won't use it, but as a creative project and social experiment - I love it.

I feel like this is something Reddit would try to do as part of their April fool's experiments.

Re: Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants

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post #22

Cool app, but I really love the style. Is there a name for this kind of style? There’s a common theme here with sites like https://glitch.com . I love it, so it would be nice to put a name to it. Also reminds me of https://sourcehut.org , but to a lesser degree. Big fan of that design too!

Kind of a user interface flavor of the Memphis Milano style that was popular in the 80s (including with 80s Apple).

Reminds me of Tass Times in Tonetown (Amiga version, not the CGA abomination.)

But I think that something along the lines of Warhol/Pop Art is probably more accurate.

Re: Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants

#26

Let's talk about Artificial Intelligence https://yap.chat/4TB6xLs2nT?invite=QLSXwIEMCv Edit: It seems more people can't join even if you kick out those who already left.

Yep, that's gotta be a bug surely? If somebody leaves and the room now has 5/6 people, somebody can only join as an audience member and the sixth slot is stuck on "x has left the room". Surely slots should be reusable?

Re: Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants

#27

Cool app, but I really love the style. Is there a name for this kind of style? There’s a common theme here with sites like https://glitch.com . I love it, so it would be nice to put a name to it. Also reminds me of https://sourcehut.org , but to a lesser degree. Big fan of that design too!

Probably something like “offset printing retro” would work...

Re: Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants

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post #29

+1 for the dope, minimalist design. +2 for the no shenanigans approach. Love it

Nothing about this actually is minimal. It's a highly stylized design that I guess "feels" minimal, but it utterly fails at actually being minimal.
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