Am I burning those 200 views if I see the same confession multiple times? The random selector can show you ones you’ve just seen. That or Sarah Pearson’s been extra busy.
Maybe someone is cutting and pasting the same confession ever and over again.
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#12Back in early 2000 there was a confession website. I forget the name. But man some of the confessions on there… can’t unread that stuff 20 years later…
PostSecret? It looks like it's possibly still running actually - https://postsecret.com/
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#13Back in early 2000 there was a confession website. I forget the name. But man some of the confessions on there… can’t unread that stuff 20 years later…
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#14Back in early 2000 there was a confession website. I forget the name. But man some of the confessions on there… can’t unread that stuff 20 years later…
One I remember was GroupHug or similar name. There were numerous IRC bots at the time that would post stories/confessions from it.
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#15Looks like someone is flooding it with copies of an N-word-ridden rant, making it hard to find any other content. EDIT: and now it's anti-Semitic conspiracy. And now it's down.
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#16Back in early 2000 there was a confession website. I forget the name. But man some of the confessions on there… can’t unread that stuff 20 years later…
PostSecret? It looks like it's possibly still running actually - https://postsecret.com/
Na it was similar to the OPs site but better looking… it had the word “hug” in it.
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#17Not today, FBI, not today.
But one day? That counts right? Bring him in boys.
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#18Back in early 2000 there was a confession website. I forget the name. But man some of the confessions on there… can’t unread that stuff 20 years later…
One I remember was GroupHug or similar name. There were numerous IRC bots at the time that would post stories/confessions from it.
GroupHug!
https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=497057
Just found that searching it.
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#19These type of sites were very popular in the late 90s/early 2000s. The most famous one was probably lowbrow.com, https://web.archive.org/web/19990428052738/http://www.lowbro...
I suppose with all the spillover from the web back into real life these days the view limit is needed. Lowbrow stored stories until lowbrow stopped existing.
There's another "anonymous message server" I've been using since the late 90s where you just get whatever the person before you to the site wrote. It is amazingly still going today but I think linking it on HN would kill it.
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#20Hmm seems like either the randomisation function is very, very broken or the same confessions have been entered thousands of times, since I've seen the same two confessions about ten times so far.
Quality control seems questionable too, but hey, maybe I'd disagree if I saw a more varied set of answers.