Text-Only Social Network • Hacker News Board

Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 9:27 PM UTC

doomrobo wrote: post #3

ketanmaheshwari wrote: post #2

"About -> Limitations: ASCII only because it works everywhere" This should be in the features. It is the strongest selling point of the site as I see it.

I was surprised by this since it excludes billions of people, but then I saw it's explicitly an English-only forum

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Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by thrownaway65535 » Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 9:28 PM UTC

Formerly known as "Sublevel": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8111691

Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by cosmotic » Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 9:31 PM UTC

Basically half the messages have an emoji in it, so I would not describe it as "text only"

Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by stickac » Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 9:38 PM UTC

cosmotic wrote: post #13

Basically half the messages have an emoji in it, so I would not describe it as "text only"

Emojis are used as avatars, they are not part of the posts

Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by LeoPanthera » Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 9:44 PM UTC

ketanmaheshwari wrote: post #2

"About -> Limitations: ASCII only because it works everywhere" This should be in the features. It is the strongest selling point of the site as I see it.

So this is not just a text-only social network, it is also an English-only social network.

Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by latchkey » Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 9:47 PM UTC

"English only"

Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 9:49 PM UTC

cosmotic wrote: post #13

Basically half the messages have an emoji in it, so I would not describe it as "text only"

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Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by knowledge-clay » Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 9:50 PM UTC

cosmotic wrote: post #13

Basically half the messages have an emoji in it, so I would not describe it as "text only"

I would argue that emojis would fit within a technical definition of "text". They fit inside the text/* mimetype.

Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by ketanmaheshwari » Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 9:51 PM UTC

johnchristopher wrote: post #8

Like it. No logging out ?

If you mean to ask how to log out -- click on your username and it will show you link to sign out. I had similar trouble and took a bit to figure.

Re: Text-Only Social Network

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Post by swagonomixxx » Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 9:51 PM UTC

Pages load quite fast, I'm assuming not a lot of JavaScript being used (haven't checked the Network tab to see what was downloaded).

I have no use for social networks of any kind, but I guess if you want a non-cancerous Twitter, this looks like one.