Love this!!! Quick feedback: I keep thinking the Disable Townsquare button is a toggle for dark/light theme :/
Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other
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#112I know this is a long shot but I’m gonna try asking anyway because it has been eating away at me. I remember seeing a website with the same concept as what the OP has done but with gorillas. It was during the early HTML5 and web socket days and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I tried googling for it but nothing came up. Appreciate if anyone can give me a lead.
Was it http://apestronauts.com (which redirects to https://apestronauts.herokuapp.com/)?
http://apestronauts.com exists since 2012, so that seems a decent potential.
Found it by throwing your comment into ChatGPT.
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#113Love this!!! Quick feedback: I keep thinking the Disable Townsquare button is a toggle for dark/light theme :/
You and a lot of people.
For some reason I've been postponing changing the icon to a ZZ or some sort of toggle...
But I also want to I plement a day/night mode for the widget. So I've been postponing the first to do both together.
Anyway, the widget does work with dark mode. But then you need to change the site to dark mode.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
mom&pop social media is the old thing, and like other mom&pop things that got steamrolled by their equivalents of Walmart, it is highly unlikely to ever return. 95% of people choose utility and convenience over ideological preferences, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. I too miss the old Internet sometimes, sure, but I'm not ashamed to admit that I'd much rather deal with anonymous strangers or LLMs than ye old…
There's no shortage of anal moderation, resident schizos, and weird cliques in show on the "Walmart" communities.
Anal moderation! “I only poop one ounce a day tyvm”
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#115Love the idea!
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#116I 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".
Problem is no one visits those sites. Everyone visits the same sources of content robotically, they need to be taken on a random walk by something to find new sites.
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#117Cool idea but needs rate limit and abuse protection.
There is already a bot spamming hate speech
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#118Cool idea but needs rate limit and abuse protection. There is already a bot spamming hate speech
Haha, I guess having a troll posting nonstop racial slurs is just part of that old web feel...
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#120There needs to be some filters on the messages