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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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EarthLaunch wrote: post #27
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…

It's mined by the same agencies that monitor everything. So your venting is deleted for yourself, but preserved eternally for the people with power over you. I rather like it.

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

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Post by C4stor »

VentScape wrote: post #41
szhu wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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';

Hey, creator of the site here, thank you so much for the tip! Unfortunately I'm quite new to full stack. ~1.5 months ago I didn't know a lick of HTML (let alone CSS, JS, any backend framework, AWS, etc), and I'm making lots of mistakes along the way. Currently trying to figure out how to improve my DB performance as Spring's default pagination seems to be quite slow and my site is getting hugged to death at the momen…

Reduce the refresh rate drastically, augment the number of messages fetched at once (let's say 200), and display them slowly. Should reduce 20 times the load on DB while making no sensible difference for end users anyway.

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

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Post by mqrs »

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…

Doesn't the fact that Twitter posts (mostly) stay incentivize conscientiousness, precisely because it doesn't take away the reality that words have consequences? It's still not an excellent representation of how forgiveness and personal development exists in the real world (i.e. we can forget about the details of what's been done in the past, but what we post stays in some database), but without the longevity of Twitter/FB posts, people just wouldn't think twice about what they're saying and this is a time when we do need more critical thinking.

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

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Post by ashkankiani »

I think I'm going to copy this site, but actually make it real-time. What I've read about how the creator implemented it seems like it would never actually be able to achieve that. It also seemed like quite an expensive approach as far as hosting goes. I like the idea, so I think I'll make something that I can actually keep online forever without maintenance.

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

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Post by sitkack »

apatters wrote: post #54
wingerlang wrote: post #26

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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…

I really think that people need to have an AI shield or body guard that monitors and controls ones access to media, to protect them from harmful concepts and behaviors. This might sound fantastical, and I understand the vastness of implications, but it will be viewed as no different than wearing sunglasses or mittens. We wear clothing and protect ourselves from the environment, the mental environment out there is unlike anything humans have ever come across.

At some point, the weatherman will tell us about rates of state sponsored AI powered psyops campaigns across social media sites for the day.

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

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Post by friend-monoid »

dstick wrote: post #47
VentScape wrote: post #43

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I'm brand new to full stack so I have no idea what I'm doing. Kind of figuring it out as I go along. Decided to start with short polling since I was having trouble getting websockets working and just wanted to get a v1.0 out in the wild. Switching over to websockets eventually is 100% on my mind, but I have a near infinite amount of work to do on all fronts so we'll see when I have time!

Good on you. Learning about DB structure is far more important than websockets when starting out full-stack. You’d need to run your own websocket server anyway or pay through the nose for a service like Pusher (or stay on the free tier and not learn a single thing about either). You choose well! Nice job, keep at it :)

I agree absolutely - just want to add that learning when not to use a db, which db to use when you need one, and which network protocols to use for an application, is also important

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

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Post by skinkestek »

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…

> This is great. It fills the same role as Twitter, but people's posts disappear after a few seconds, making it better than Twitter.

Also like Jodel it is anonymous[1], which is a good thing whenever possible as has become obvious lately.

[1]: wrt other users. Random nutjobs of all shapes cannot easily find you and nobody can verify if Jodel have really banned someone so they can to a larger degree do what they think is correct instead of what the mob demands. Threaten someone however and police will have your adress shortly, - Jodel is not an alternative to Signal or Matrix.

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

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Post by vermilingua »

mqrs wrote: post #73
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…

Doesn't the fact that Twitter posts (mostly) stay incentivize conscientiousness, precisely because it doesn't take away the reality that words have consequences? It's still not an excellent representation of how forgiveness and personal development exists in the real world (i.e. we can forget about the details of what's been done in the past, but what we post stays in some database), but without the longevity of Twit…

Does it really seem to you that Twitter incentivizes conscientiousness?

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

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Post by llarsson »

raggi wrote: post #38

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

Holy hell, OP.

What prevents me from just calling "postMessage" directly myself, which does nothing to prevent the "sanitation" that the replace function call there is supposed to do?

Please sanitize messages on the server instead.

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