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Thanks for the feedback. I created this project because I know many people who struggled with loneliness at times in their lives. My hope is that by sharing

by wtsui 9y ago

Thanks for the feedback. I created this project because I know many people who struggled with loneliness at times in their lives. My hope is that by sharing this experience we’ll feel a sense of connection when we’re alone, and find more acceptance of ourselves and our aloneness, however happy, peaceful, or sad.

QAPereo 9y ago
Maybe, although generally when you fill a room with sick people, they don’t make each other well. Group therapy can work, but it takes the guidance of people not currently looking up from a hole.
- wtsui 9y ago
  Agree with this. It'll be important for Solo to highlight and even celebrate the positive aspects of being alone to avoid this.
- IncRnd 9y ago
  > Maybe, although generally when you fill a room with sick people, they don’t make each other well. Group therapy can work, but it takes the guidance of people not currently looking up from a hole. Being alone is not a sickness. The site, when viewed on mobile even without an app, shows the first entry as someone who climbed a mountain when alone. Another learned about the three poisons, and yet a third chose to read a series of books.
  - QAPereo 9y ago
    “App for sharing lonliness and aloneness...” Lose the semantic crap, and the cherry picking.
    - IncRnd 9y ago
      > “App for sharing lonliness and aloneness...” The words "loneliness and aloneness" don't mean what you think. Read the comment to which you replied and which was written by the author of the app, "and find more acceptance of ourselves and our aloneness, however happy, peaceful, or sad." > Lose the semantic crap. There are better ways to relate to people.
      - QAPereo 9y ago
        My experience with nitpicking and semantic parsing on this site says otherwise, and you’re certainly another brick in that wall.
        IncRnd 9y ago
        > My experience with nitpicking and semantic parsing on this site says otherwise, and you’re certainly another brick in that wall. There was no nitpicking or cherry picking. The entirety of your comment related to how being alone is a sickness. I pointed out that being alone is not a sickness. I supported this with three healthy comments from the very first page of the site. Instead of actually discussing, you have twice turned to personal attacks.
        nekopa 9y ago
        Maybe he is just lonely...
        joering2 9y ago
        He probably is. But he is also a troll.
        QAPereo 9y ago
        Original comment I responded to: “Thanks for the feedback. I created this project because I know many people who struggled with loneliness at times in their lives. My hope is that by sharing this experience we’ll feel a sense of connection when we’re alone, and find more acceptance of ourselves and our aloneness, however happy, peaceful, or sad.” You said... The entirety of your comment related to how being alone is a sickness. Your selective reading is actually impressive in its way, and seems either deliberate or deluded. Edit: Ah downvotes, the currency of the struck nerve.
        dang 9y ago
        Your comment was correctly downvoted because it broke the site guidelines. You've been doing this a ton. If you can't or won't stop, we're going to ban your account, even though we appreciate fine submissions like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16001776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16001776. Please take the principles of this site to heart and clean up your act if you want to keep commenting here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
jackstraw14 9y ago
I think this is pretty cool and thanks for making it. I bus commute 2.5 hours per work day and my job is 98% alone time, so it will be cool to see what other people in this boat do with that time. Maybe it's all the HN posts about loneliness like another person noted, but does anyone else have a job like this? I'm really curious to hear about any long-term experiences with significant alone time. Seems like 100% remote folks might deal with this level of aloneness too. I'm realizing after a year that all the alone time really weighs on my psyche if I don't organize it somehow, so I've got five journals that I carry every day just to organize my thoughts. Curious what systems and strategies others have for structuring alone time.
djsumdog 9y ago
This makes me think of grouphug.us (now gone) which was a pretty neat concept and was reborn/reinvented a couple of different times before the author finally took it down. Overall, grouphug was a really cool site with a lot of neat statements. I feel like the way sharesolo is designed helps in promoting a variety of different posts, with the photos/instagram feel behind it. Promoting it during the holidays will also have an interesting dynamic. I think it will be interesting to watch and see what people post. Although there are some implementation aspects I don't like, I really do like the concept and the layout. sidenote: For some reason it asks Firefox mobile for microphone access, but I was able to post something by using the web panels in Vivaldi desktop.

by wtsui 9y ago

QAPereo 9y ago

Maybe, although generally when you fill a room with sick people, they don’t make each other well. Group therapy can work, but it takes the guidance of people not currently looking up from a hole.

wtsui 9y ago
Agree with this. It'll be important for Solo to highlight and even celebrate the positive aspects of being alone to avoid this.
IncRnd 9y ago
> Maybe, although generally when you fill a room with sick people, they don’t make each other well. Group therapy can work, but it takes the guidance of people not currently looking up from a hole. Being alone is not a sickness. The site, when viewed on mobile even without an app, shows the first entry as someone who climbed a mountain when alone. Another learned about the three poisons, and yet a third chose to read a series of books.
- QAPereo 9y ago
  “App for sharing lonliness and aloneness...” Lose the semantic crap, and the cherry picking.
  - IncRnd 9y ago
    > “App for sharing lonliness and aloneness...” The words "loneliness and aloneness" don't mean what you think. Read the comment to which you replied and which was written by the author of the app, "and find more acceptance of ourselves and our aloneness, however happy, peaceful, or sad." > Lose the semantic crap. There are better ways to relate to people.
    - QAPereo 9y ago
      My experience with nitpicking and semantic parsing on this site says otherwise, and you’re certainly another brick in that wall.
      - IncRnd 9y ago
        > My experience with nitpicking and semantic parsing on this site says otherwise, and you’re certainly another brick in that wall. There was no nitpicking or cherry picking. The entirety of your comment related to how being alone is a sickness. I pointed out that being alone is not a sickness. I supported this with three healthy comments from the very first page of the site. Instead of actually discussing, you have twice turned to personal attacks.
        nekopa 9y ago
        Maybe he is just lonely...
        joering2 9y ago
        He probably is. But he is also a troll.
        QAPereo 9y ago
        Original comment I responded to: “Thanks for the feedback. I created this project because I know many people who struggled with loneliness at times in their lives. My hope is that by sharing this experience we’ll feel a sense of connection when we’re alone, and find more acceptance of ourselves and our aloneness, however happy, peaceful, or sad.” You said... The entirety of your comment related to how being alone is a sickness. Your selective reading is actually impressive in its way, and seems either deliberate or deluded. Edit: Ah downvotes, the currency of the struck nerve.
        dang 9y ago
        Your comment was correctly downvoted because it broke the site guidelines. You've been doing this a ton. If you can't or won't stop, we're going to ban your account, even though we appreciate fine submissions like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16001776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16001776. Please take the principles of this site to heart and clean up your act if you want to keep commenting here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

jackstraw14 9y ago

I think this is pretty cool and thanks for making it. I bus commute 2.5 hours per work day and my job is 98% alone time, so it will be cool to see what other people in this boat do with that time. Maybe it's all the HN posts about loneliness like another person noted, but does anyone else have a job like this? I'm really curious to hear about any long-term experiences with significant alone time. Seems like 100% remote folks might deal with this level of aloneness too. I'm realizing after a year that all the alone time really weighs on my psyche if I don't organize it somehow, so I've got five journals that I carry every day just to organize my thoughts. Curious what systems and strategies others have for structuring alone time.

djsumdog 9y ago

This makes me think of grouphug.us (now gone) which was a pretty neat concept and was reborn/reinvented a couple of different times before the author finally took it down. Overall, grouphug was a really cool site with a lot of neat statements. I feel like the way sharesolo is designed helps in promoting a variety of different posts, with the photos/instagram feel behind it. Promoting it during the holidays will also have an interesting dynamic. I think it will be interesting to watch and see what people post. Although there are some implementation aspects I don't like, I really do like the concept and the layout. sidenote: For some reason it asks Firefox mobile for microphone access, but I was able to post something by using the web panels in Vivaldi desktop.

Thanks for the feedback. I created this project because ​​I know many people who struggled with loneliness at times in their lives. My hope is that by sharing

Thanks for the feedback. I created this project because ​​I know many people who struggled with loneliness at times in their lives. My hope is that by sharing

Thanks for the feedback. I created this project because I know many people who struggled with loneliness at times in their lives. My hope is that by sharing

Thanks for the feedback. I created this project because I know many people who struggled with loneliness at times in their lives. My hope is that by sharing