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Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - Meet your Real Neighbours again - Sign out forever
- MicahWedemeyer 17y agoThat site is incredibly well put together. Makes me jealous that someone else's joke is better looking than my own real sites.
- timdorr 17y agoI really have to disagree on that one, as a designer. I see a lot of mistakes: - Inconsistent font usage. - The page isn't centered properly, it's slightly to the left. - Light blue on white text. - Improper whitespace usage on the "Faster, Safer, Smarter, Better" section. - The social network icons, the monitor, and the trophy are all aliased horribly. Someone used the wrong type of anti-aliasing when resizing them. - Pink. And it's just plain ugly in my opinion :/
- pavs 17y agoListen, a designer spent 1 month painstakingly criticizing and pulling apart smashing magazine (a very famous designer/developer's blog) website's new design: http://www.awayback.com/smashing-magazine-realigned/ http://www.awayback.com/smashing-magazine-realigned/ Designers are like that. Give them enough time they will find some mistakes in your work and brag about it. As a designer/developer I think I speak for myself and most design community. Chances are, some designer out there finds your favorite, best work; repulsive and ugly. I can bet on it.
- unalone 17y agoTim's criticisms weren't at all small nitpicks. That's Design 101. I'm not a designer and I noticed the same things he did. While it's true that designers thrive in critique, this simply was not an impressively-designed site.
- petercooper 17y agoWanna meet your real neighbours again? God no. That's why the Internet is so awesome - we're not limited to the people we unfortunately find ourselves surrounded by in "real life." Still, good joke ;-)
- dschobel 17y agoI know you're speaking with tongue-in-cheek but there's some unsettling truth to what you say. People can be less involved in their community if they can just escape to like-minded havens on the internet rather than fixing the real issues going on around them (see al3x's post about fleeing to Portland for reference: http://al3x.net/ http://al3x.net/).
- randallsquared 17y agothey can just escape to like-minded havens on the internet rather than fixing the real issues going on around them For most people, the world just won't stay saved, so they begin to wonder, why keep going to the effort to save it?
- pohl 17y agoI suppose the first step, then, would be to give people around you a real living example of what it means to "be the change you want to see in the world".
- hugh_ 17y agoGood idea. I have a job and bathe regularly. Yet I walk through the ghetto every day, and find that folks there are still unemployed and smelly. They're just not following my example like they should!
- dschobel 17y agoI was thinking more along the lines of starting your tech company in a city whose cup doesn't overflow with them and creating jobs locally rather than having all of the tech talent in america move to the bay area.
- bg4 17y agoGood concept but, personally, I find the overdone suicide logos and graphics unsettling.
- mechanical_fish 17y agoPerhaps there are people in the world who don't think this site is utterly tone-deaf. I'm not one of them. Matters of taste aside, here's a factual prediction: This site will disappear in a flurry of bad press and (perhaps) legal action the first time an actual suicidal person couples the use of the site with an actual suicide attempt. EDIT: Come to think of it, I'll make another prediction: My first prediction probably won't come to pass, because it would require the site to actually have a statistically significant number of users. And I doubt the effectiveness of the apparent marketing plan. The stench of death doesn't sell very well. Especially when the second step of your viral loop is "encourage your customers to cut off casual contact with any other potential customers". ;)
- jordyhoyt 17y agoVery unsettling. I don't understand how this topic is a punchline to so many people. Utterly tactless, but I'm not sure how much you'd be able to muster with a url like that.
- est 17y agoHere's the quickest way to delete your account in China (only if your account has absolutely no link with your real identity): Use a proxy, and post anti-government stuff.
- pie 17y agoReminds me of this, which also surfaced recently: http://www.seppukoo.com/ http://www.seppukoo.com/ Also strangely well-designed for a simple novelty site.
- Morieris 17y agoI was going to try it, but it looks like too many people are killing their myspaces alread. "Myspace service currently unavailable, due to massive requests!!"
- suicidespam 17y agoWe need the reverse ... spam your social networks with your real-world suicide, as explored at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=831537 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=831537.
- bena 17y agoThe people who feel the need to do this have missed the point of the sites in the first place. I have an account on all three services. All of my friends on there are people I have physically met and like as people (or in the case of LinkedIn, business contacts). The only site I'd probably be fine with losing is MySpace, as it was fine before Facebook went public, but after that all of my friends moved to Facebook, making MySpace redundant. I think the real issue is people who treat it like some soft of demented game of Pokemon. You don't have to "catch 'em all" and get everyone on the site to "friend" you. You don't win.
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- jyothi 17y agoTheir busy message with - consider suicide at a later moment - is quite hilarious "It seems like that all of our machines are currently busy! Please consider suicide at a later moment and accept our apologies!"
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- Psyonic 17y agoYour real neighbors are all on the internet, too busy to talk to you anyway.
- tungstenfurnace 17y agoMy neighbours in opinion space are more interesting than my neighbours in physical space.