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Re: Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.

#11

Post by joez » Tue, Aug 04, 2009, 10:23 PM UTC

A few other suggestions:

It is too chaotic but I can see you taking this in different directions. You need a way to direct the flow, potentially even in a useful direction (I am thinking Yahoo/Mahalo Answers), or just like a trending topics feature in which different worlds are based on tags.

Another thing you could do is to have a reset or form a new world every few minutes. This way there is a new slate.

What you will probably need to end up doing in order to monetize this idea is to build a site around it. User profiles, trending topics, different links, regional worlds, answers, /random/, and /ANSI art/ (read: penises)

Re: Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.

#12

Post by yread » Tue, Aug 04, 2009, 10:25 PM UTC

bdr wrote: post #2

An explanation from the author: This isn't a startup, it's just an idea I thought would be cool. I'm announcing it on HN first, hoping to get technical and aesthetic feedback before I throw the URL around. The two browsers in the submission title are the only ones I have on this machine. Right now it doesn't run as smoothly as I'd want in FF3. There are a couple big optimizations ideas I have, but I was comfortable e…

works OK in Opera 9 and 10

Re: Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.

#13

Post by rwolf » Tue, Aug 04, 2009, 10:29 PM UTC

It's painfully slow, and I ran into some glitches (ctrl v outputting only first letter). pretty fun, anyway.

what about different (random) colors for different users, and a fade over time so older words decay?

Re: Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.

#14

Post by omouse » Tue, Aug 04, 2009, 10:30 PM UTC

I don't get it, what are you supposed to do?

Re: Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.

#15

Post by jlees » Tue, Aug 04, 2009, 10:32 PM UTC

I love how everything's penis, or gay, or some variation thereof. Scrolling around to find the more erudite conversations was remarkably fun though. I kind of like it just as it is..

Re: Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.

#16

Post by bdr » Tue, Aug 04, 2009, 10:36 PM UTC

rwolf wrote: post #13

It's painfully slow, and I ran into some glitches (ctrl v outputting only first letter). pretty fun, anyway. what about different (random) colors for different users, and a fade over time so older words decay?

Ctrl-v is intentional. I want to keep it "natural" as long as possible, although I'm sure someone will start crafting spammy POSTs soon enough.

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#17

Post by mojombo » Tue, Aug 04, 2009, 10:38 PM UTC

peteysd wrote: post #10

Backspace doesn't work for me but everything else does - I'm on Chrome.

Same on webkit nightly. Needs more backspace!

Re: Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.

#18

Post by qeorge » Tue, Aug 04, 2009, 10:41 PM UTC

Like it a lot! Its fun how it is, more features might take away the appeal.

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#19

Post by mcotton » Tue, Aug 04, 2009, 10:49 PM UTC

That is a really clever idea, I like it.

Re: Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.

#20

Post by cellis » Tue, Aug 04, 2009, 11:04 PM UTC

wow that is addictive