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Re: Anonymous public voicemail inbox

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Post by unixispower »

speps wrote: post #29
unixispower wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Site is static built using Jekyll. Voicemail inbox is hosted using VoIP.ms. I pull the voicemails manually by running a Python script, edit the Markdown file that the script spits out to add a memo, then run another script to build and upload the site to Neocities. I thought about making a dedicated "app" for all of it, but why make it more complicated than it has to be. I manually moderate all the calls anyway, so I…

Any interesting ones you couldn't publish?

Right now the ones that aren't in English, and a couple ones that are aggressively political. I'd like to take a pass at the non-english ones when I have some time to find a way to translate them.

Re: Anonymous public voicemail inbox

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Post by xanderlewis »

unixispower wrote: post #21
Zod666 wrote: post #15

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If the site blew up in popularity how would you plan to continue moderating the voicemails?

I'm not really sure to be honest. The traffic today has me stepping away from work occasionally to process calls in little batches :) I would probably just streamline the moderation process to make it a bit easier. For various reasons I wouldn't want it to be completely automatic (for one I just like to listen to the messages).

What’s the current acceptance rate, roughly?

Re: Anonymous public voicemail inbox

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Post by Y_Y »

kxrm wrote: post #33
mariorojas wrote: post #26

I've tried to dial from Mexico and it seems like the phone is not available. I'm dialing +1 442 667 2337

you'll need to dial international. I believe the exit code is 00 for Mexico so dial 00 1 442 667 2337

That wasn't the unary plus, it's the international exit code

Re: Anonymous public voicemail inbox

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Post by technothrasher »

I don't know why, but this reminded me of going to school in the early 90's, we'd go through the university's voicemail system inputting random phone numbers and trying the default password, '0000', which meant the voicemail on that number had never been set up. When we found one, we'd record a song as the greeting. We then posted notes by the various public phones on campus for our 'dial a song' directory so anybody could enjoy a song, like a big public jukebox.

The entire thing worked well for a semester, until some killjoy updated the phone system default to disable voicemail for unused numbers and blew away all our songs.

Re: Anonymous public voicemail inbox

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Post by unixispower »

xanderlewis wrote: post #32
unixispower wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not really sure to be honest. The traffic today has me stepping away from work occasionally to process calls in little batches :) I would probably just streamline the moderation process to make it a bit easier. For various reasons I wouldn't want it to be completely automatic (for one I just like to listen to the messages).

What’s the current acceptance rate, roughly?

So far I've only marked 1 out of 50 as a "no". There are 2 more I need to translate. So, ~94-98%? The sample size is small so far though

Re: Anonymous public voicemail inbox

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Post by d416 »

unixispower wrote: post #21
Zod666 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the site blew up in popularity how would you plan to continue moderating the voicemails?

I'm not really sure to be honest. The traffic today has me stepping away from work occasionally to process calls in little batches :) I would probably just streamline the moderation process to make it a bit easier. For various reasons I wouldn't want it to be completely automatic (for one I just like to listen to the messages).

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