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- GrandMasterBirt 16y agoomg fun!
- locopati 16y agoanywhere but the welcome box ;)
- petervandijck 16y agoNice, chatroulette for text. Or Googlewave + 4chan :)
- MikeCapone 16y agoWith some Google Maps thrown in there. You can drag the screen around.. Try it.
- edkennedy 16y agoThis is joyous, scrolling to the side...it reminds me of an old text based game. I see that the goons and 4chan have arrived already. TXT PARTY!
- mkramlich 16y agoIf you like text-based games try http://DeadByZombie.com http://DeadByZombie.com great to get feedback from a fellow HN'er
- WingForward 16y agoSuper cool. The linked page goes to one particular world: msernst which allows you to enter coordinates to scroll to (as well as drop links to those coordinates). Looks like you can create your own text world or explore others. Can this be used for useful collaboration?
- s-phi-nl 16y agoAre they using Etherpad technology?
- someone_here 16y agoIt would be interesting to make each cell writable only once (including spaces).
- vyrotek 16y agoWouldn't we end up with a giant wordsearch? You could even encode secret messages by skipping spaces for each letter of a word. Then once you have this huge wordsearch, you sell printed poster versions.
- pigbucket 16y agoIn the beginning was the word, says John. It probably looked something like this.
- darius 16y agoMy first reaction was wtf but after playing with it for a minute I must say it's fun.
- curio 16y agoand just like chatroulette or most anonymous forums, the tone quickly deteriorates to the level of graffiti in a public bathroom stall.
- ramchip 16y agomost anonymous forums Some of the non-/b/ areas of 4chan are surprising. Look at /jp/: there are people programming games and animations, people translating visual novels from Japanese. They even spawned a group project to make a visual novel from scratch: http://katawa-shoujo.com/ http://katawa-shoujo.com/ I think anonymous forums can work as long they share a strong common interest.
- tomsaffell 16y agoIs it an infinite plane, or a sphere?
- omaranto 16y agoA sphere sounds quite unlikely. Maybe a torus, though.
- IgorPartola 16y agohttp://www.yourworldoftext.com/home/ http://www.yourworldoftext.com/home/ says it's a plane.
- pbhjpbhj 16y agoDoesn't it depend on overflows that could be out of their control? If the page is larger than the largest width that your browser will display then it could overflow on scrolling and bring you back to the opposite page edge making it a sphere. Browser dependent post-modernity!
- mkelly 16y agoI don't know how they did, specifically, but I could easily imagine it being like Google Maps. You need only load the tiles you see (and a few surrounding ones for good measure).
- bdr 16y agoYou're correct. It's an "infinite" plane, depending on what integer overflows first. It would be easy to make a torus or sphere version.
- shortformblog 16y agoThis has been around a while, actually. I remember posting about it a year ago.
- moultano 16y agoWonderful Idea.
- ja27 16y agoMultiplayer notepad!
- zck 16y agoPreviously, a submission from the creator: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=742268 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=742268
- bdr 16y agoThat's actually the first place I announced it. Wasn't sure if it was solid yet, but the traffic came so I had to roll with it. It somehow hopped straight from HN to 4chan and out from there.
- Judson 16y agoHaha, reminds me of the writing on a run-down gas station bathroom stall. Why am I addicted?
- edkennedy 16y agoSpent 30 minutes scrolling to the side following the trail that promised infinite treasures. After a endless track following footprints through the whitespace desert, behold, an oasis of poetry and song. It was like Columbus landing in the new world.
- snikeris 16y agoWhich side?
- _flag 16y agoI made something like this awhile ago, it's not as nicely done though: http://wall.bot.nu/ http://wall.bot.nu/ (wait till the red cursor scrolls all the way to the bottom)
- moolave 16y agoAs cliche as it sounds, I definitely see an ad-based revenue stream coming here.
- igravious 16y agoOh no, another land rush for a name space yet again. Missed the domain name rush. Ditto the Twitter rush. And now this - Q: what's your worldoftext handle that you're homesteading for $8.99 a year? A: http://www.yourworldoftext.com/all_the_good_names_were_gone http://www.yourworldoftext.com/all_the_good_names_were_gone
- nirmal 16y agoHow would you implement the UI for browsing search results in this system? Maybe draw some inspiration from map searching UIs.
- mumrah 16y agoAnyone have any info on the tech behind this? Is this a node.js demo or something?
- hackermom 16y agoThis is the ASCII version of the infamous Drawball(.com).
- BoppreH 16y agoBut doesn't take two minutes to load a page.
- ComputerGuru 16y agoMy god, how immature are the inhabitants of the web? I was on the site for 2 seconds and was literally quite depressed at what I saw. Why can something like this not exist except with kiddies turning it into an expletive-filled hate and anger textbox?
- hughw 16y agoSrsly? You're surprised?
- ComputerGuru 16y agoIt's not surprise. Just sadness at the incredible potential that isn't.
- thunk 16y agoWhat you're looking at actually is potential. It's like we have to flush all this nonsensical, vile shit out of our unconscious to detox it for big creativity. Or like you can't have the crest of a wave without a trough. I see the stuff you described and I'm always so thankful that humanity finally has public, anonymous dumping grounds for the worst of our id. It's therapeutic and, I think, healthy.
- aharrison 16y agoPsychologists have pretty much debunked catharsis as being a good thing. [1] I think that having a environment of competitive creation is a good thing only when it causes people to excel, and only then when it is not done to excess and thus burnout or what have you. Sometimes, also, you can get some amazing things [2] when you have a negative influence which causes you to excel, but that isn't what we are seeing here, either. So sad to see so much time wasted on unproductive [3] stupidity. [1] A weak citation is here (but I bet you could find plenty more where that came from): http://books.google.com/books?id=Pye5IkCFgRYC&pg=PA853&lpg=PA853&dq=catharsis+psychology+debunk&source=bl&ots=syS7IADfUR&sig=pwWe087rMe7NipuerJkTtmTgwzY&hl=en&ei=uKAJTOzNK4iyNuauxLUE&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CC8Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=Pye5IkCFgRYC&pg=PA853&#... [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1286253 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1286253 [3] Unproductive in the sense that it isn't helping anybody. As is mentioned in the book excerpt I cited in [1], this isn't even "relaxing" people, except from exhaustion. It would be better if they were doing something which reduced their arousal.
- samratjp 16y agoI wish I could start playing Pac-man over this text.
- moolave 16y agoIt would be nice too if we can doodle like doing so at a whiteboard.
- ryanwanger 16y agoI just had a fun little therapy session with someone on there. It was my first glimmer of hope as to the value of chatroulette (the concept of it anyway).
- dkasper 16y agoSomeone needs to write a bot to counteract that 2pac bot.
- ja27 16y agoI spent about an hour last night, while watching TV, helping keep a 2pac-free zone clear. Can't understand why. I also played tic-tac-toe for a while, which somehow became at least 3 player with someone playing z's as well as X and O.
- BoppreH 16y agoAh, world of text. Last year I started a journey in the /jp world. Two full days (some 20 hours) scrolling north, leaving messages and drawings along the way. I have met other people in only one occasion, the rest of the time I was alone with the messages and drawings left by other adventurers. Energy surges made their toll one time or two, but I still managed to get to x0y2000. I felt enlightened. It was the most spiritual thing I've ever experienced. Its minimalist approach and absolute freedom makes it one of the best "games" I've played. I strongly recommend trying it at least once. And if you ever scroll north in http://www.yourworldoftext.com/jp http://www.yourworldoftext.com/jp, look for the messages from The Bard ♫ ;)
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