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Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by drsh0 »

cauenapier wrote: post #113
drsh0 wrote: post #111

Love 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.

Just thought I'd share a quick wholesome update. I felt transported to better times after playing around with this to when I used to spend my time on WinMX chatrooms, IRC, or much later playing a simple flash game called Transformice, or when reddit had RPAN! Strangers are the best!

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by compscistd »

xuhu wrote: post #12

I 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".

Would be cool to have an embedded typeform-type widget that compliments disqus that takes the following flow: - are you interested in meeting offline? - which country? - which city? - enter your email to get updates (or check back here)

Then when there’s enough demand, you’re shown meeting spots and times to vote with RSVPs.

The key is the widget has to be embeddable and agnostic of the content so it can manage itself based on sensible rules (only show possible events when there’s enough demand, but make the demand really easy to measure).

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by kachurovskiy »

I've had a strange experience this week at a maker meetup in my city. Couple dozen people came to make a short presentation about what they're building and there was a somewhat lively networking with food and drinks. The project quality was all over the place but what struck me is that nobody really wanted to keep in touch after the meeting beyond adding each other on LinkedIn. I have even created a Telegram group and got several folks to join but they never replied or posted anything so today I had to just delete the group. Perhaps I didn't make the right impression or I've misunderstood the reasons people go to such meetups

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by d4ng »

kachurovskiy wrote: post #123

I've had a strange experience this week at a maker meetup in my city. Couple dozen people came to make a short presentation about what they're building and there was a somewhat lively networking with food and drinks. The project quality was all over the place but what struck me is that nobody really wanted to keep in touch after the meeting beyond adding each other on LinkedIn. I have even created a Telegram group an…

If people ask me for LinkedIn (or Instagram in other contexts), I just get their number. It pierces the barrier of formality and makes it more personal. If the person is worth remembering (for friendship or work), connecting on LinkedIn isn’t going to be adding any value.

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Post by grvdrm »

kachurovskiy wrote: post #123

I've had a strange experience this week at a maker meetup in my city. Couple dozen people came to make a short presentation about what they're building and there was a somewhat lively networking with food and drinks. The project quality was all over the place but what struck me is that nobody really wanted to keep in touch after the meeting beyond adding each other on LinkedIn. I have even created a Telegram group an…

Few things annoy me more than the 5 minute convo followed by “let’s connect on LinkedIn”

I grew even more skeptical over the past year when a VC dude connected to me (during a conversation) and then later removed me. No harm done as we barely know each other. But it caused an even stronger distaste for that impulse.

What I still like instead? Take my card!

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by SoftTalker »

cauenapier wrote: post #99
aryehof wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That "standard phrases and emoticons" would break the whole idea. But I guarantee the most of the times, the TownSquare in my site is much calmar and friendlier. People having actually interesting conversations. What you saw was a reflection of the page going FrontPage on HN

Nice bunch of folks we have here, huh?

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by tossmysalad »

evnp wrote: post #15
cauenapier wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm the site author and creator of TownSquare. The only moment it got a bit abused it was during the first HN spike. But before and after that, everything was friendly.

Love this idea and your creation of it. Unfortunately do think the parent's concerns are valid - at this moment on your site at least one person has set their name to something offensive so it shows up perpetually (under the street light). Anonymity+connectivity persists in bringing out the worst of our impulses, I guess... Do you think names are really necessary? Or could they take some other form than text, perhaps…

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