Must be nice to be able to take seriously the idea that multiple people might be browsing your site simultaneously… :(
Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other
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#82cool idea, but the experience was not great. All I see are stick figures rapidly moving back and forth spouting racial slurs
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#83I hope sites that just provide a way for people to assemble offline will be the new thing soon. A photography guide's site that rallies amateurs for walk tours. A planning board for a foreign language practice group. A site with a schedule and registration form for a sports event. When I read "online social" my head thinks "not-really social".
I'm working on a game that helps with this. You leave your little bunker in a post-apocalyptic world and find the land around you contaminated. You walk, run, any workout, to claim territory around you, and gain energy you can use to clean up. You start building greenhouses to grow food and start rebuilding the ecosystem. It's all on the real world map underneath you, and all the interactions between people in the ga…
Ping me when you're ready for Android/web users :)
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#84> The goal wasn't to build another social network. > It was to bring back a small feeling that the web used to have: the sense that there are actual people on the other side of the screen. > Town Square is intentionally tiny and forgetful. There are no accounts, no profiles, no follower counts, no permanent chat history. Messages exist only while people are there to read them. Cute idea! But maybe this is just me hav…
Indeed. We knew each other from our handles(still do).
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
That already exists. It's called social media and people promote real life events there.
Well, most platforms operate primarily as an algorithmic scroll based feed, and the actual utilities (like event planning, or marketplace) are related to second class citizens – used mostly as a hook to get you to stay logged in. I've had a lot of success lately relying exclusively on Partiful as my one social app. I know it's nearly an inevitability though before they will need to monetize and introduce some way to…
Distribution, getting people to know that the event exists is the hardest part. Scroll based algorithmic feeds are good at helping you with this.
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#86So make it a public C&C server???
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#87Damn, that demo needs some moderation right now. Some dudes went nuts.
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#88Not sure how this is appealing at all. I see a bunch of stick figures moving rapidly and comments flashing too quickly to read. I gave up as it wasn't obvious at all what to do or how to particpate.
The issue is that my site right now is too crowded giving this post reached a good position on HN. On regular days, this are much calmer. You can check other sites using the Townsquare on https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/ (fixed link). Check out the map.
All I see is disgusting popups - “k-ll j——“, “r-pe n——“ Very upsetting, no thanks to you.
Who wants that on their web site? In some jurisdictions you’re going to be in trouble for facilitating hate and calls for violence (or worse). This is why what you have implemented will not work in its current form. I suggest you move to a system that characters can trigger only standard phrases and emoticons.
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#89The comments on your site are just what i expected
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