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Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

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Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

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Post by TrevorJ »

peterwwillis wrote: post #52

So, there's a lot of good reasons why nobody runs shell servers anymore. One reason is that the FBI may one day knock on your door with a letter that says they're going to need access to all your user's accounts, and that you can't tell them or anyone else, and if you do you're going to jail for a felony. If you're lucky you'll be able to tell your users about 6 months later. Other things that happen is you become a…

How is this any different than the situation for anyone running any kind of web service anymore?

Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

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Post by arm »

mr_brown wrote: post #37

/me also misses IRC from the times where you could type -- all lines aligned (to the left, however unbelievable that sounds) regardless of the length of the users name. Today I have to pay attention not to write (b) or (c) because it might turn into a beer or coffee. We often forget to appreciate the simplicity of things.

That behaviour sounds great, although I’m curious which old IRC clients you are referring to. I actually make use of an old Power Mac G3 (B&W) running Mac OS 9 for connecting to some IRC servers (using ircle) and in its case, at least, nicks are assumed to be 10 characters or less. This is quite annoying since there are active users on the channels who have nicks longer than that, so the client simply displays their messages with the extra characters of their nick cut off (to keep the messages left aligned). While I suppose ircle could dynamically resize the area for nicks based on the length of the longest nick that has posted a message, that could be pretty inefficient… not to mention if the channel messages are being logged in a text file with messages left-aligned in there as well (which is what ircle does); the whole file would have to be recreated.

Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

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Post by bmh100 »

My concern for this project is that it is so dependent on the culture of its users that is has to be strictly controlled. It cannot scale up, because a strong culture like this does not scale. There might be more Tilde Clubs over time, but such a machine is too easily disrupted by even a single bad actor, like peterwwillis says. Even if that did not happen, cultural erosion would happen, like a mini Eternal September or take your pick of communities: Reddit, Slashdot, HN, etc.

Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

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Post by Gracana »

0898 wrote: post #67

Massively off-topic – but in American English is "a couple drinks" correct? British English would be "a couple of drinks". Just curious – I notice this a lot of US tech blogs.

I never thought of that as being strange. I think it's used this way because it fits with "a few," you know? "I had a few drinks," "I had a couple drinks." But fwiw, "I had a couple of drinks" doesn't sound wrong to me.

Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

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Post by mortenjorck »

bdm wrote: post #96

This is the Burning Man of the Internet.

I had exactly the same thought. The fact that you aren't running Rails and you can't clone a bunch of open-source libraries from Github, but rather must start from scratch with your own handmade HTML, is absolutely Burning Man's "radical self-reliance."

Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

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Post by gohrt »

joshmillard wrote: post #32

It's been a wonderful weird little thing so far, with folks having a mix of nostalgia for and first exposure to shell account stuff, playing around with oldschool webbery, hacking little things together across user accounts, and just generally being great people in a nice place. I got inspired yesterday and wrote us up our own custom low-rent version of Flappy Bird: http://www.tilde.club/~cortex/js/tildebird/

It's called Helicopter :-(

Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

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Post by arm »

minikomi wrote: post #83
pyrocat wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I heard it originated in Korea, as a way of signifying a light hearted teasing / sarcasm (e.g. "see you at the finish line~")

In Japan a ー is used to extend a sound. Characters like ne or yo are used to casually finish sentences and it gives them a hightened sense of friendliness to extend them with 〜 instead of ー. It also can be used to make effeminate or suggestive sounds like あーん would be ahhn like sticking out your tongue to check your throat but あ〜ん is ahnn but in a seductive/sexy way

Please correct me if I’m wrong (still learning Japanese), but isn’t「ー」only used to extend sounds written in katakana? In the case of the「あーん」that you wrote, I would think that it would be written as「ああん」instead since that’s the way sounds are extended in hiragana. I agree with your usage of「あ〜ん」though.

Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

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Post by b2themax »

bmh100 wrote: post #114

My concern for this project is that it is so dependent on the culture of its users that is has to be strictly controlled. It cannot scale up, because a strong culture like this does not scale. There might be more Tilde Clubs over time, but such a machine is too easily disrupted by even a single bad actor, like peterwwillis says. Even if that did not happen, cultural erosion would happen, like a mini Eternal September…

So the only usefulness of this product is that it provides a feeling of nostalgia, and smug belonging? (Like you're cool now if you have a tilde.club page?) Thus we cannot invite lots of people to the tilde.club because... we're just too cool for them. I predict #Fail.

Re: Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds

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Post by spindritf »

coryfklein wrote: post #89
lawl wrote: post #59

I might be too young. But I like writing webpages on my own isolated vps :) I can move around my own domain and even install packages! While still having the shell experience. And these days you can go as low as $10 per YEAR on a vps.

Where can you get a vps for $10 a year?

You can get one for €3/yr http://lowendspirit.com/
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