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Special.fish
- ComputerGuru 6y agoConnection times out.
- dstroot 6y agoSpecial fish died
- mfrw 6y agoFailed to open :( ::<>
- kalium-xyz 6y agoIts dead jim
- thescribbblr 6y agoDidn't open
- johndough 6y agoSeems to be dead. ° ° ° ° <ₒ))>< ~~~~~~~~~~
- teambayleaf 6y agoIt's not dead, but just stunned.
- httpsterio 6y agoI discovered the only reason that it had been floating in the ocean floor in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.
- polycaster 6y agoDead fish tends to float up. Just saying.
- gorgoiler 6y agoTypical human cultural prejudice! In fish culture “down” is of course the direction in which one falls, and this is correctly depicted in the image. It’s a common confusion, as Down vs Up is more nuanced in Fish culture. Fish technology is extremely under developed: imagine inventing the screwdriver, having it slip through your fins, and it immediately floating “up” into oblivion. Debate is still ongoing as to if this is why fish do not use screws, or if it’s the other way around — if lack of screws was the reason they never invented screwdrivers.
- johndough 6y agoActually, there are several factors which could influence whether a dead fish sinks or floats, for example the cause of death, the phase of decay or kind of fish. I chose this depiction because it is easier to convey in ASCII art that the fish is dead. I also took the artistic liberty of adding some escaping air bubbles, although fish don't breathe. Anyway, the fish seems to be alive again. <°((><
- bertman 6y agoArchive version: https://web.archive.org/web/20200421005016/https://special.fish/faqs https://web.archive.org/web/20200421005016/https://special.f... Special Fish is a place for exploring profiles and lists. You could think of Special Fish as a public word processor. Usually rtf/txt files just sit on a user’s computer. SF is about making those documents into a social network.
- kickscondor 6y agoIf you’re still confused, click on the dot in the upper left corner and you’ll be on the home page. Each of those squares is someone’s profile page. Many are just made of random lists or links. Others are detailed journals. I think it’s turned out to be a great place to discover new people and as a portal to unfamiliar places on the Web.
- cookingoils 6y agoHey there, sorry that the site is down! Looking at getting things up and running asap. Special Fish is a small community website so it wasn't built to scale lol. For now, as mentioned by @bertman, you can browse an archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20200420171359/https://special.fish/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200420171359/https://special.f... Thanks Wayback Machine!
- cookingoils 6y agoCached version of the site is up again. Working on clearing up auth issues now. Stay tuned... Update: Okay we are back! Implementing more caching but should be working for now.
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- gpiancastelli 6y agoIs Random now cached? I always stumble upon the same guy.
- cookingoils 6y agoThanks for reporting. Should be fixed now.
- flanbiscuit 6y ago> Special Fish is a place for exploring logs and lists. You could think of Special Fish as a public word processor. Usually rtf/txt files just sit on a users computer. Special makes those documents into a social network. Can you elaborate more on this? What do you mean by making text files on my computer into a social network? Is that just a metaphor or are you actually doing something like that?
- cookingoils 6y agoIt's more of a metaphor for how to think about/approach the site. Logs and lists are stored in a centralized db so nothing new happening behind the scenes. Supporters are able to download their content as txt files, so you could use it as an online version of TextEdit.
- nonbirithm 6y agospecial.fish commercial: https://youtu.be/BAS-70KpNNA https://youtu.be/BAS-70KpNNA
- einpoklum 6y agoThis had better be a story about food!
- thirtythree 6y agoLast time this was posted I took a look. It's a lot of gibberish and spam.
- thih9 6y agoThis seems subjective. I’d use the same words to describe some other social networks.
- thirtythree 6y agoYou may, it doesn't change my comment though.
- f1refly 6y agoAnd yet, twitter seems to be doing just fine. I don't see a reason why this website would be worse
- jdironman 6y agoI actually really enjoyed this site. It was interesting driving into different people's headspace or at least that's what it felt like.
- Quastra 6y agoI do not understand this :\
- _tk_ 6y ago.......what....?
- gpiancastelli 6y agoThe first time I stumbled upon Special Fish was in the first comment on another HN thread titled "Rediscovering The Small Web" [1], so if you find Special Fish interesting you may also like some other things mentioned there. I spent a couple of hours sufring the site and various personal pages linked within some profiles. From my small sample, it seemed to be popular among some sort of lo-fi designer/technoartist crowd. It was different enough from my usual intake of the web to hook me up for a bit. I was tempted to register an account, but gave up after reading the pitch: "Special Fish is a place for exploring logs and lists." I mean... I've done blogs (on both home-made and stock tools), tumblrs, micro-blogs (Twitter and Identi.ca), small project-based websites, you name it. What is left to explore on the logs/lists space, especially given the simple pages I've witnessed across the site (and the simple tools given to authors, I guessed), that signing up would be compelling? What are the results of this exploration on Special Fish that are worth mentioning? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23326329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23326329
- cookingoils 6y agoThanks for the feedback. This is something I've been thinking about a bit since launching it. I don't think SF necessarily does anything new or hooks users and I'm okay with that. I actually intended the site be more focused around the lists, but people really seem to enjoy logging their day-to-day lives. Personally, I like reading these automatic thoughts from strangers. Many people talk about quarantine routines, life goals, and ongoing projects. It's cool to see all this overlap in how people are thinking right now. So again, nothing new here, just a slightly different approach to a community website. I totally understand your hesitance on registering an account. There are so many ways of blogging/journaling on the web already. I actually think it's a good site to browse without ever needing an account. I'm looking at added RSS soon so you won't even need to really visit and can use something like Fraidycat to check in. Also, SF was mentioned on Kicks Condor recently [1]. I like how they talked about the site... "but it hadn’t even occurred to me to make a social network that is just a directory". I hadn't really thought of SF as just a directory either, but I like the idea that its only purpose is to be a directory of people doing DIY stuff on the web. [1] https://www.kickscondor.com/special.fish/ https://www.kickscondor.com/special.fish/
- ghostpepper 6y agoWhat is this? Just a strange color theme for someone's blog?
- pandatigox 6y agoThis is very interesting. Does anyone else have concepts for anti-social networks?
- hymnsfm 6y agoIt's a good day to visit Hacker News. Lots of interesting and insightful submissions, including this one. I especially get a kick out of creative domain names. This is one of my favorites.
- pretzel_boss 6y agowhat a fun website