This is amazing! Congratulations on the launch. Repository link somewhere?
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Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites
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#12Not really a square if it's 1D - everyone ends up on top of each other.
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#13> NOTE: This project has been mostly vibe-coded I deeply appreciate the honesty here. I’ll pass based on the vibecodedness of it but perhaps it won’t be a dealbreaker for others.
Is it the philosophical reason you refuse to engage or is it because you don’t trust the security of this project?
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#14I just took a look at the page's own 'town square'. At the moment, it's largely full of people saying offensive things for the sake of it.
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#15Neat idea! It's simple but very effective - and I really enjoy the detail of the benches and the tree. Very nice. I wouldn't add it to any of my sites due to the unmoderated nature of it - seeing some fairly unsavory things in your demo - but that's just a little tweak, I'm sure!
openai has a free moderation endpoint. no reason to not use it.
edit: downvoters either know something I don't about its unsuitability, or have outdated info on it and think it's against terms to use it for reasons unrelated to GPT. it's not against terms.
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#16I love the idea! The next step is to add role play games in town squares.
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#17> NOTE: This project has been mostly vibe-coded I deeply appreciate the honesty here. I’ll pass based on the vibecodedness of it but perhaps it won’t be a dealbreaker for others.
Is it the philosophical reason you refuse to engage or is it because you don’t trust the security of this project?
Easy come, easy go. I find most vibe coded projects are abandonware.
Also, in this context, security.
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#18I just took a look at the page's own 'town square'. At the moment, it's largely full of people saying offensive things for the sake of it.
So it’s a twitter plugin?
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#19I've been playing with presence too...! I def am thinking about using it more for real-time motion communication (which is largely missing from web) rather than text (which is very overrepresented, and where most moderation comes in).
I was toying with the idea of making a little crowd representation sticky at the bottom, like watching a screen together :)
Regardless, I love concepts like this. Thanks!
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#20Oh what the heck? That's super cool! Awesome idea. Possible future enhancement: some basic day/night (or even weather?) design elements that match the timezone of the person whose site it is? Still, doesn't even need it, it's really cool as-is!
I could see it being used as some avenue for saying toxic stuff, so I'm suddenly feeling like the only allowed actions should be ones that can never be harmful (like text interactions are just choosing from a pre-set list)..