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Reminds me of m favorite late 90s messenger, Odigo[0]. It had some sort of radar which showed you people who were visiting the same site. It sure had this town hall feel, but admittedly most sites were simply empty. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odigo_Messenger
Not sure how this is appealing at all. I see a bunch of stick figures moving rapidly and comments flashing too quickly to read. I gave up as it wasn't obvious at all what to do or how to particpate.
And now it's an open source repo that other people can try out and fork it and see what works and sticks!
I love it!
This is the demo page for others to see: https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/#square
Fun! There’s a lot of features there to play with and it acts as a real time view counter. Interestingly I used it then left without even reading the article
Much more features are coming! Someone pushed a PR for a futball, and I've added cats and custom hats.
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Would that be a little guy permanently on the page even if the user isn’t present, or a permanent persona for a user across visits?
A permanent persona for a user across visits. Could even be across website visits, if they all use townsquare.
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".
That already exists. It's called social media and people promote real life events there.
I've had a lot of success lately relying exclusively on Partiful as my one social app. I know it's nearly an inevitability though before they will need to monetize and introduce some way to ruin the elegance.
(My proposal for the modern successor to Zawinski's law: Every social media platform attempts to expand until it has a scroll-based algorithmic content feed).