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Sorry, would you mind explaining what this will do?
A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Following stuff that interests you is not an echo chamber.
A machine learning algorithm then uses that stuff to recommend content which is similar. If one engages with opinionated stuff, then they'll only get recommended stuff that conforms to their original opinion, forming an echo chamber.
Imagine following some people who talk about houseplants. Maybe you like some tweets with the kind of information you consider of above-average usefulness for you. Maybe you praise someone for a beautiful pic of their monstera variegata.
The algorithm decides to show you more high-quality tweets and prettier photos.
If you consider that an echo chamber then all right, but I don't think it's a useful definition. Is going to a scifi-focused bookshop an echo chamber?
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#53You're warned: const messageText = inputTextBox.value.replace(/ ]+(>|$)/g, ""); var $newdiv = $(' ' + messageText + ' ').css({ 'opacity': '0.95' });
What are you warning about?
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#54This 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.
My direct experience with Twitter is I have one dude's account bookmarked and I check it almost daily because he's a great source of local news. I have a profile but I haven't logged in or used it for a long time. My experience is fine.
There sure seem to be a lot of people, though, who have the cesspool experience I mentioned. It's great that you and I don't have this experience with Twitter. It's also anecdotal and not really relevant to my comment which was about people who aren't you and me.
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#55Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime
#56So many people venting about work, it's interesting.
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#57I've been wanting to do a tech trash talk site for a while. Sometimes I've got nothing but hate and vitriol for something and it'd be great to have a designated anonymous space where people can brood and lament. You can do things like sort by most capital letters and profanity density or incoherency and spelling errors. Now that I actually typed this out, it sounds really easy to code.
Spewing vitriol can be quite the art.
I've always been fond of the British variety.
A site dedicated to the fine art of bile could be entertaining.
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#58That is neat the random fading text, wonder the insights gleaned from this.
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#59There is a rendering problem in my browser (firefox with custom larger fonts): the textarea where you are supposed to enter text is half-cropped by the boundary of the window at the center.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who is Maddie?
I think Maddie McCann, she was a young girl who disappeared in Portugal sometime a few years ago. She's been in the news recently I believe.
Oooof I was assuming it was a different Maddie. But yes that's the most famous Maddie in the UK. Might be a coincidence though. It feels like it was over ten years the Maddie you're thinking of disappeared while on holiday
(Edit: looked it up) Maddie McCann disappeared in may 2007