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Re: One Million Checkboxes

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I spent five minutes writing “hey you, yes you” only to read your comment and realize my message is unparsable for those not on mobile.

The idea of public canvases has been explored thousands of times: r/place, 1 million pixels,... This feels like something else, it's ok if it has its own identity, otherwise it devolves/converges into a place to draw dicks in.

The dick is humanity’s logo - wherever humankind is, dicks are being drawn

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

How much is all this costing you?

I am very late to this but as of now I think it has cost me about $85, although that will go up a little more quickly once I go through the bandwidth buffer I have with digital ocean (shouldn't be too bad tho)

Re: One Million Checkboxes

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How much is all this costing you?

I am very late to this but as of now I think it has cost me about $85, although that will go up a little more quickly once I go through the bandwidth buffer I have with digital ocean (shouldn't be too bad tho)

Thanks for the reply! That's actually less than I would have guessed.

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Hi! Sorry it took me a bit to get to this, I've been hacking to keep the server up for the last several hours. Lots of people are botting, I don't think there's anything wrong if you bot too. There's a tiny bit of client-side rate limiting and originally i had server side rate limiting too, but I got rid of that a while ago (I was cutting anything I could to speed things up).

Haha. Cutting rate limiting to speed things up

the worse thing is already happening

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I jumped to a random spot, very far down. I decided to write HELLO in checks. I didn't get past the H before someone found me and griefed it. Must this 1 million checkbox ledger of art, devolve into madness? No matter how far I scroll there is nothing discernable. A wasteland of meaninglessness. This is just chaos.

I did the same, but started writing Fudge, to keep it clean. I got to FU and someone finished it with CK. It made me laugh much harder than it should have.

I didn't think it was fun or original but as i was checking boxes anyway for reasons beyond me i got annoyed someone else unchecked them.

Re: One Million Checkboxes

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Great stuff. Little jealous, because I'd love to work on quickly scaling such experiment seeing how many people are playing with it. Sad, but having my head too burned out by corpo bullshit and my creativity level is in the basement :( Are there any companies hiring where you can still work and not waste 90% of time on meetings and docs? Probably too many clicks and my mind is just spitting out here instead of just d…

make one?
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