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Re: Strange.website

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Post by tarcon »

con wrote: post #38
con wrote: post #27

I just made a pretty strange one myself: https://currentcondition.tv I've added quite a few Easter eggs and a few old school games. Let me know what you think? Blue dots are locations of previous visitors.. it all works well on desktop, the games need a bit more love to work well on mobile.

Also just made it open source - https://github.com/consti/currentcondition

The 5000 loc index.html doesn't look too bad content wise, but I question if it's helpful to humans in its shape. I guess a proper project structure is just a prompt away though.

Re: Strange.website

#42

Post by TeMPOraL »

akoboldfrying wrote: post #17
GaryBluto wrote: post #7

I was just thinking to myself about how much the internet was lacking in self-important esoteric gibberish. I am unsurprised to see it came from the same person as "A Website to Destroy All Websites". I am especially befuddled by all the comments stating "This is how the web used to be!"; no it wasn't, and I can only imagine those who think so collate their view of web history purely through what others say on Mastod…

Agree. It reads like something an LLM would generate in response to the prompt "Edgy dystopian gloom about the state of the modern web" if you kept replying "Edgier!" until it made everything lowercase.

Nah, LLMs do a better job. This is clearly human.

Re: Strange.website

#43

Post by con »

tarcon wrote: post #41
con wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also just made it open source - https://github.com/consti/currentcondition

The 5000 loc index.html doesn't look too bad content wise, but I question if it's helpful to humans in its shape. I guess a proper project structure is just a prompt away though.

Yup. I built a few more complex apps with more structure, like https://rauschstoff.com - fully vibe coded on the same platform. It has honestly been amazing the last few days :)

Re: Strange.website

#44

Post by dandelionv1bes »

manuelmoreale wrote: post #34
boca_honey wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. Have you noticed that most of these 'weird web' sites don't actually talk about anything besides the web itself? Every other 'indie web' site I stumble upon is just about the indie web.... or worse, just a list of links pointing to other similar sites. There’s no real value here. No new info, no original content. Just clunky web design and rants about 'social media bad.' That’s not how the web actually was.…

You are clearly not browsing enough of these “weird web” sites if that’s your take. Or the only ones you’re clicking on are the ones that are posted here on HN. Try search something on https://wiby.me for example and then tell me if all you get are people writing about the web.

Haven’t seen Wiby before but it’s fantastic, thank you.

Re: Strange.website

#45

Post by romperstomper »

con wrote: post #27

I just made a pretty strange one myself: https://currentcondition.tv I've added quite a few Easter eggs and a few old school games. Let me know what you think? Blue dots are locations of previous visitors.. it all works well on desktop, the games need a bit more love to work well on mobile.

It is cool but remember that not all the world uses Fahrenheit for temperature :)

Re: Strange.website

#46

Post by reddalo »

romperstomper wrote: post #45
con wrote: post #27

I just made a pretty strange one myself: https://currentcondition.tv I've added quite a few Easter eggs and a few old school games. Let me know what you think? Blue dots are locations of previous visitors.. it all works well on desktop, the games need a bit more love to work well on mobile.

It is cool but remember that not all the world uses Fahrenheit for temperature :)

I'd even say that a very small part of the world uses Fahrenheit for temperature :)

Re: Strange.website

#47

Post by interloxia »

romperstomper wrote: post #45
con wrote: post #27

I just made a pretty strange one myself: https://currentcondition.tv I've added quite a few Easter eggs and a few old school games. Let me know what you think? Blue dots are locations of previous visitors.. it all works well on desktop, the games need a bit more love to work well on mobile.

It is cool but remember that not all the world uses Fahrenheit for temperature :)

English speakers in Liberia and the Burmese will also have to stick with tyranny units according to the detection code. The rest of us should be fine.

Re: Strange.website

#48

Post by PurpleRamen »

urban_alien wrote: post #15
adventured wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Internet is fantastic. The Web sucks. On the Internet: any movie I want to watch; any song I want to listen to; an endless parade of games to play via Steam et al.; about a zillion games I can play online with friends; numerous app store options, and an entire other world of smartphone games I can play alone or with friends; inexpensive LLMs I can do almost anything I want to with, wherever my imagination takes m…

Care to elaborate on where you're drawing the line between The Internet and The Web? Your comment doesn't make it clear.

The Web is layer 7, the internet is layer 3 (and upward if you want to generalize).

Re: Strange.website

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Post by con »

romperstomper wrote: post #45
con wrote: post #27

I just made a pretty strange one myself: https://currentcondition.tv I've added quite a few Easter eggs and a few old school games. Let me know what you think? Blue dots are locations of previous visitors.. it all works well on desktop, the games need a bit more love to work well on mobile.

It is cool but remember that not all the world uses Fahrenheit for temperature :)

It tried to detect which one you'd prefer. Now I made it so you can toggle by clicking on it.

Re: Strange.website

#50

Post by isdjjwjdjwndn »

vintagedave wrote: post #19
GaryBluto wrote: post #7

I was just thinking to myself about how much the internet was lacking in self-important esoteric gibberish. I am unsurprised to see it came from the same person as "A Website to Destroy All Websites". I am especially befuddled by all the comments stating "This is how the web used to be!"; no it wasn't, and I can only imagine those who think so collate their view of web history purely through what others say on Mastod…

I feel this is a slightly cruel comment. It’s a website of creativity, very well executed. Also, if you read the text, it is right. Some of the presentation (such as the inverted / mirrored square) is pure art. In an admirable sense: art. While I get the commentary — that bit reminded me of House of Leaves which has been criticized for the same thing — there’s a real human behind this, who obviously cares deeply abou…

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