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Re: One Million Checkboxes

#54
At first I was clicking the top but people kept unchecking my stuff. Why can't we (we ? who's that we ?) all get along toward clicking them all ?

So I figured there would be less people fighting down the window, right ? For a while I was alone. It was a boring and meaningless job but it felt peaceful.

Then I met someone who's also checking boxes, 5 seconds top, they are gone. Okay, then I kept scrolling, checking boxes. Then, I don't know why... I scroll back up, just a little bit, just 2 lines of boxes, just to... goddammit there are random unchecked boxes now and I didn't see nobody unchecking them !

There's a ghost unchecking boxes :(.

Re: One Million Checkboxes

#55

Scrolled down randomly, found a swastika, clicked back.

Honestly that was one of my first thoughts when I saw this, someone is going to draw one of those. People love trying to be offensive in something that barely allows communication. I remember seeing some MMORPG that had no chat where players would log in and just stand in the shape of a swastika. Makes me wonder if it's reasonable to write an algorithm to detect that.

Which MMO was that in? I'm working on my own and now I have a new worry on my plate. Short of standard moderation, an algorithm to detect it could be interesting.

Re: One Million Checkboxes

#57
post #8

(developer here) this is....more popular than i expected. the server's gonna be having some problems for a while

Would be fun to read a writeup of how you implemented it.

By the performance of it, probably some bloated server-side Javascript running on a toaster.

Re: One Million Checkboxes

#58
post #34
post #8

(developer here) this is....more popular than i expected. the server's gonna be having some problems for a while

I think there's a severe problem with this implementation. By using wrapping, I can't write "boobs" and have everyone else read my graffiti without them having having the same zoom wrapping point.

We need community consensus on checkboxes per line

Re: One Million Checkboxes

#59
post #8

(developer here) this is....more popular than i expected. the server's gonna be having some problems for a while

Would be fun to read a writeup of how you implemented it.

it's a tiny flask server, a bitset stored in redis, updates broadcast (too frequently! but i don't want to change it now) via websockets, and react-window to only render the checkboxes that are in view.

I'll do a writeup when i finish putting out fires!

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