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Re: One Million Checkboxes

#113

Stop scripting this yall. The site is having enough trouble as is. I thought we were more mature than reddit.

Who is "we"? The developer also announced this on the FediVerse, and it spread to Reddit within 2 hours of that.

Re: One Million Checkboxes

#114
post #98
post #87

Fun and pointless, I love it. Why do some checkboxes have colored borders?

I don't know why they exist but if you check them they are listed separately in your click stats. At the moment I found 4 colors

You can cheat and look at the JavaScript code. (-:

Re: One Million Checkboxes

#115
post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think there's a severe problem with this implementation. By using wrapping, I can't write "boobs" and have everyone else read my graffiti without them having having the same zoom wrapping point.

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.

These days we say "encrypted" rather than "unparseable".

Re: One Million Checkboxes

#116
post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think there's a severe problem with this implementation. By using wrapping, I can't write "boobs" and have everyone else read my graffiti without them having having the same zoom wrapping point.

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.

¯_ (ツ)_/¯

Re: One Million Checkboxes

#117
post #108

You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

When I was a kid I thought he was talking about the apes.

Also, I have not yet had a good, clever opportunity to say "Take your stinking paws offa me you damn dirty ape" but it is awaiting its moment.

Re: One Million Checkboxes

#118
post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would be fun to read a writeup of how you implemented it.

it's a tiny flask server, a bitset stored in redis, updates broadcast (too frequently! but i don't want to change it now) via websockets, and react-window to only render the checkboxes that are in view. I'll do a writeup when i finish putting out fires!

I don't think you can put out a fire like this. Should have tried some kind of webrtc and Kademilia network and crypto to eventually communicate all updates.

Re: One Million Checkboxes

#119

Scrolled down randomly, found a swastika, clicked back.

Honestly that was one of my first thoughts when I saw this, someone is going to draw one of those. People love trying to be offensive in something that barely allows communication. I remember seeing some MMORPG that had no chat where players would log in and just stand in the shape of a swastika. Makes me wonder if it's reasonable to write an algorithm to detect that.

Here's an extra part of the spec: Deliberately there is no correct WWW browser window width. So you'll also have to account for the swastika writers using a whole range of window widths.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40801007

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