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A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

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Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

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Post by distribot »

maximp wrote: post #18
typhonius wrote: post #10

Looks like you can query the database directly via their REST API: https://api.ventspace.life/api/v1/ventpost?sort=id,desc&size...

Looks like it caps off at 2,000, and we're currently at 130K+ messages

what does this mean?

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

#35

Post by npunt »

gnicholas wrote: post #32

Reminds me of Secret. I miss Secret. Why did it have to die? Once the apps were built, I can't imagine it was that expensive to keep the servers up.

Secret was a vector for harassment and innuendo via friend of friend connections and deserved its fate.

This on the other hand feels like early internet, overly personal in a charming way.

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

#36

Post by chrisco255 »

maximp wrote: post #17
punkspider wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you catch the part about Maddie? It started some hours ago, I think. 1. Someone said something about "Maddie" 2. Somehow someone else started saying things about "Maddie" 3. Next thing that happens is either people ask who Maddie is, and others keep saying various things about "Maddie" 4. Someone made /r/MaddieFans after that Not really something useful, but it's some silly fun. I'd like it if the project evolves…

I made r/MaddieFans - wanted to see how long it keeps going. Trying to keep it wholesome. It IS pretty incredible that this thread is going after 12+ hours. I think initially a guy talked about his ex-girlfriend Maddie, that he missed her. Imagine there's a real Maddie out there who has no idea?

This reminds me of what happened when TwitchPlaysPokemon took off and all the lore about Bird Jesus, etc just cropped up spontaneously.

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

#37

Post by acje »

wingerlang wrote: post #26
apatters wrote: post #25

This is great. It fills the same role as Twitter, but people's posts disappear after a few seconds, making it better than Twitter. I'm serious here. Twitter's a cesspool filled with people venting about random crap. So is Ventscape. We all need to vent sometimes, there's nothing inherently wrong with that. But the problem with Twitter is that it preserves and amplifies your venting until the end of time, which is the…

Is that your only experience with Twitter? Twitter fills about a million more roles than venting. I don’t see any “cesspool” on my feed in fact.

It's a personalized echo chamber. YMMV

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

#40

Post by szhu »

raggi wrote: post #38

You're warned: const messageText = inputTextBox.value.replace(/ ]+(>|$)/g, ""); var $newdiv = $(' ' + messageText + ' ').css({ 'opacity': '0.95' });

The safe, proper way to do this is both shorter and more readable!

Both with jQuery:

    const $newdiv = $('')
      .addClass(messageDivClass)
      .text(inputTextBox.value)
      .css({'opacity': '0.95'});
and without:

    const newdiv = document.createElement('div');
    newdiv.classList.add(messageDivClass);
    newdiv.innerText = inputTextBox.value;
    newdiv.style.opacity = '0.95';
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