Yeah, I had a question around how to stop people from claiming "legit" brands and bashing them? I could easily see someone take a brand like Uber or Airbnb and start creating content that could get the actual brand in legit trouble. Cool concept though! I like the simplicity.
Good question and it's definitely a concern. For now, I'm just monitoring things manually, but certainly would need a more scalable system if the site grows.
Or worse like paste in, Bitcoin and other public places people will post urls to terrible/illegal things on the internet. People always find a way to ruin the public commons.
I understand the concern, but I wonder if it's real. I can bash Facebook in this comment right now, lie, but is HackerNews legally responsible for this comment? I honestly don't know the laws. Seems like I should.
Ephemera. I miss living in New York City because of the street art.
The web would benefit from open air ephemerality. Real ephemerality, not "your photos and videos disappear to our digital vault, probably forever." Also:
This sentiment is actually what originally drew me to places like 4chan on the internet. If you miss it, you just miss it. I felt like I legit HAD to be on the board or else I would miss the best joke or thread.
No idea what that's called. Maybe hipsterism? I liked to know that what I'm seeing is authentic, real, and limited (even if it was technically available to everyone in the world).
temporal uniqueness. Art in a museum is locked in a gated vault, like a website is locked to a version number. Ephemera is when you walk past your favorite street art and a piece of the pasted image was scraped or defaced, or when another artist or rando with a pen or a can added something in response. An ephemeral website is one that you hope will be different when you refresh it. There's an element of chance and the content is the reward. To an extent, aggregators have long embodied this characteristic I feel.
Conversely, that feeling is what turned me off 4chan (and incidentally snapchat). I prefer to read the cream of the crop on best of 4chan threads elsewhere. Different strokes I guess
Not really related, but I just browsed through all the projects on http://unfoundedlabs.com/ and really enjoyed it. You have a unique voice and an artists sensibilities which will now serve as an inspiration to me.
Just a warning that there might be some NSFW content on the websites. The very first site I opened (the one about a collaboration on shirts or similar) has a half naked woman in the first picture.
It also supports img tags. Being able to write HTML is very powerful. Markdown support would just add feature bloat. Next you will ask for a markdown live preview.
I really love ideas like this (and this one is so nicely done!). Reminds me of when "wiki wikis" first started, and many were publicly editable (ah, simpler times!). I'd love to see a real-time chart of the number of active pages... watch how it ebbs and flows over time.
Also, I started to make a "choose your own adventure" game, but I realized that would be the end of my day's productivity!
This is cool! It's like a wiki, but there's no structure imposed and everything's ephemeral. Would be interesting to see what happens over time.
Some feedback for the author: it might be interesting to add a "I'm feeling lucky"-type feature, kind of like StumbleUpon. Or some other fun discovery technique.
What password is assigned if you inadvertently click "add password" with the password box still empty?
If you click "add password" without first entering a password in the box, the site is locked behind an unknown password. You can't login with an empty password, nor with "password"...
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 116 ms ] threadI for one am not too worried about "legit" brands being squatted. No sane person thinks https://sdnotes.com/facebook was made by Facebook.
The web would benefit from open air ephemerality. Real ephemerality, not "your photos and videos disappear to our digital vault, probably forever." Also:
> Passwords are optional.
This makes me happy.
No idea what that's called. Maybe hipsterism? I liked to know that what I'm seeing is authentic, real, and limited (even if it was technically available to everyone in the world).
Edit: I was going to add "gnostic" but I can't find a dictionary to back up my definition. What I mean is a hierarchy based on secret knowledge.
That being said, are there any plans to support markdown? Also it may prove helpful to be able to download posts before the site is destroyed.
Also, I started to make a "choose your own adventure" game, but I realized that would be the end of my day's productivity!
Some feedback for the author: it might be interesting to add a "I'm feeling lucky"-type feature, kind of like StumbleUpon. Or some other fun discovery technique.
>tfw when someone doesn't have a strong password.
If you can solve the "potential for abuse" problem while maintaining this format, you've got something!
damn beat me to it