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Text-Only Social Network
- root_axis 6y agoI can't use my personal e-mail domain to sign up. I do not like that.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- abductee_hg 6y ago"irc"? :)
- tomrod 6y agoOr HN!
- ketanmaheshwari 6y ago"About -> Limitations: ASCII only because it works everywhere" This should be in the features. It is the strongest selling point of the site as I see it.
- doomrobo 6y agoI was surprised by this since it excludes billions of people, but then I saw it's explicitly an English-only forum
- uallo 6y agoEnglish with a limitation to ASCII. There are many words in written English or topics that are not in ASCII, though. Subreply also disallows non-ASCII names with "First name should use English alphabet". Unicode should also work (close to) everywhere.
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- LeoPanthera 6y agoSo this is not just a text-only social network, it is also an English-only social network.
- rossdavidh 6y agoReally, as long as other people make text-only social networks for other languages, maybe that's a good thing. I'm not sure that having all languages on one social network really buys the user anything (esp. since they can switch to other social networks for other conversations). It buys the company running the social network something, if they're trying to have literally billions of users. But I'm not sure that's a good thing for the users, either.
- biztos 6y agoSo if I want to post something in a combination of English and Hungarian and German, for my fairly large set of friends who speak all three, which network should I use?
- rhizome 6y agoThere's something to be said for greatly simplifying moderation.
- crazygringo 6y agoSo... even if it's English-only, I can't quickly refer to a price in £ or € or ¥? Or that it's 90°F out? I can't talk about my fiancée? I can't even use “proper quotes”? Yikes. These days, talking about the "benefits" of ASCII-only is like talking about the "benefits" of HTTP over HTTPS, or the benefits of dial-up as opposed to broadband. No thanks. It's exclusionary and for zero good technical reason. For every reasonable programming language, there are functions to do everything in UTF-8 that you can do in ASCII, with about the same complexity. In 2020, why are you going out of your way to prevent people from typing the honest-to-goodness useful characters they want to communicate with? In English?! Where exactly does UTF-8 not work, that this site does?
- leephillips 6y agoStay tuned for my uppercase-only social network. Also, we don’t allow the letter Z nor semicolons, as they are rarely used.
- bigiain 6y agoWanna try making that the letter E? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)
- leephillips 6y agoYes, that always astonished me. This novel is famous, but I’ve never met anyone who’s actually read it.
- bigiain 6y agoI have :-) It is, as you and everybody you know seems to have worked out, not really worth the effort, unless you are amused in just the right way by such things. (I did start the French novel influenced by it, but my decades-rusty high school French comprehension was not up to the task...)
- MR4D 6y agoLoads fast at least.
- ewired 6y agoOops! I made an account and logged out from within Settings so I could read over more of the about page, but I got stuck with Internal Server Error on the whole site. I deleted the "identity" cookie from site storage, which was an empty string after logging out. I logged back in and it seems to be working as normal. Other than that, I really like the vibe of Subreply, nice work.
- dorianmariefr 6y agonicely done, maybe searching for hashtags should only return hashtags used and not a generic search for the keyword
- johnchristopher 6y agoLike it. No logging out ?
- ketanmaheshwari 6y agoIf you mean to ask how to log out -- click on your username and it will show you link to sign out. I had similar trouble and took a bit to figure.
- johnchristopher 6y agoThanks, someone hinted to it in a random conversation. Links should always be underlined if they aren't a button or a menu item.
- Upvoter33 6y agoGains popularity. Suddenly a new thing that may become a better social network! Then, bought by Facebook for $2B. The End.
- Jaruzel 6y agoWith $2B in your bank account, do you really care if that's the end result ? ;)
- moxplod 6y agoI thought that was what HN was.
- thrownaway65535 6y agoFormerly known as "Sublevel": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8111691 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8111691
- cosmotic 6y agoBasically half the messages have an emoji in it, so I would not describe it as "text only"
- stickac 6y agoEmojis are used as avatars, they are not part of the posts
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- alexwennerberg 6y agoI would argue that emojis would fit within a technical definition of "text". They fit inside the text/* mimetype.
- reaperducer 6y agoSo do uuencoded and base64-encoded images. ...and we're right back where we started from.
- alexwennerberg 6y agoTrue, but my terminal, web browser, phone, and text editor don't render base64-encoded images in-line, nor is base64 encoding part of the Unicode spec. Emojis behave much more like text than like images.
- latchkey 6y ago"English only"
- samtregar3 6y ago"Unicode is too hard" - guy with the nerve to invent a new social network in 2020, I guess
- swagonomixxx 6y agoPages load quite fast, I'm assuming not a lot of JavaScript being used (haven't checked the Network tab to see what was downloaded). I have no use for social networks of any kind, but I guess if you want a non-cancerous Twitter, this looks like one.
- newman8r 6y agoI've been trying to make something along those lines at podaero.com, and I'm actually trying to get HN users to join some of the small groups... see here if interested https://podaero.com/info/hacker-pod https://podaero.com/info/hacker-pod
- ekr 6y agoI did try signing up. The second I ran into the activity requirement quota I quickly got out of there. That's a huge red flag for me, why is there a quota imposed on me? Are you paying users or something? Why expect free work to be done?
- newman8r 6y agoI'm experimenting with it and I might get rid of it. It's mostly just to try to keep the group active, because it's a small group and if the activity level dies out, the group dies out. But thanks for the feedback, I'm making a note of it.
- zem 6y agoI once watched a livejournal group die in < 24 hours because the mod suddenly decided it was too dead and put in a rule saying anyone who didn't keep up a certain level of posting would be evicted. the thing is, it really didn't matter if no one posted much; posts were aggregated with all the other groups and journals people followed, so when someone did post something it was seen and the large lulls between posts didn't bother anyone. the minute the new rule was announced there was a general stampede for the door and the mod left there saying "but I was only trying to revive the group!" my general takeaway from that was that people might get annoyed when you tell them what they are not allowed to do on your site, but most of them will roll their eyes and put up with it. if you tell them what they have to do they will simply drop the site and never look back.
- newman8r 6y agoI think in this scenario, where some sort of rule is imposed upon a group that's already been established, people would be justifiably pissed off. I do my best to make the activity requirements clear upfront, so the only people who will be upset are those who choose not to sign up anyway. For me, the far bigger challenge is learning how to define these "rules" in a way that makes the group sustainable over the long run - which is to the benefit of everyone involved. While the idea of having to post once every 25 days may seem unnecessary, if 100 people followed it to a tee, you're going to have a group that remains active indefinitely. I do see your point, and I agree that if any sorts of hard rules are to be imposed upon a discussion, it needs to be done tactfully.
- benbristow 6y agoSo it's Twitter but with no features? Why?
- faeyanpiraat 6y agoWithout media it could be run at scale cheaper
- benbristow 6y agoWhat will happen is that people will just post links to imgur/giphy etc like they used to when Twitter came out. Eventually for convenience they’d start getting embedded on the page. The tracking implications with embedding media would occur. The media would either be proxied (same/more? bandwidth usage, less storage needed though) or just self hosted and then we’re back to Twitter again. Twitter added features for a reason
- TheMblabla 6y agoYou assume that they'd support embedding even though they say their MO is to be text-only? I could see them just resisting support for that, and the type of content adapting accordingly
- efreak 6y agoThese "features" are why I hate Twitter. If Twitter was a personal 90s/2000s shoutbox, I might actually use it.
- edu 6y agoReally nice, the big question is who to follow and how to find them. Twitter solved that masterfully on their on-boarding experience.
- gverrilla 6y agoyes because social networks are intended to follow webcelebrities, tv celebrities, brands, and government leaders, alright! great job twitter
- carrolldunham 6y agoAs seen on twitch, letting people put emojis in their name on a black and white site sets up a system where scanning eyes just see those eye-candies and skip over the rest. This is useful on twitch as it highlights the streamer's paying subscribers but here it's just whoever is more obnoxious.
- pippy 6y agoPutting a filter: grayscale(); over the title makes the emojis melt more into the text. it makes it a bit more readable.
- carrolldunham 6y agoAt that point why not just filter images from twitter?
- andyfleming 6y agoSome posts not might make sense without the image as opposed to a post that’d not intended to have an image. Also, there’s an argument to be made for emojis adding tone, albeit lazily. Grayscale sounds like an interesting middle ground.
- Willamin 6y agoOne solution to this issue is to use an emoji font that is designed to be color-free, like one of the variants of OpenEmoji.
- smhmd 6y agoI disagree. Using this thing for an hour, users with emojis are more distinguishable at a glance. I often face this issue with HN where I have to read the user's username to know if they're OP. Twitter usernames with emojis, however, is really obnoxious.
- carrolldunham 6y agoit sounds like you are implying every user should have a distinct emoji at the start of their name .. i.e. an avatar image
- jtvjan 6y agoHow about adding a `latest top level posts' page? Many posts that you see on the search page don't make sense without seeing the post they're in reply to.
- DarkContinent 6y agoHow are you handling content moderation?
- 1f60c 6y agoAt first I thought this would be a literal text-only social network, à la txti.
- 65536 6y agoI prefer image boards and posting anonymously. For example, see this mobile friendly image board: http://minichan.org/ http://minichan.org/ I’d like to see more of the HN crowd come there. It might raise the quality of the content on Minichan.
- smhmd 6y ago> It might raise the quality of the content on Minichan. Coming from an imageboard myself, I think about this often. The "serious" users keep comparing themselves to Reddit when they should strive to be more like HN, instead. Now HN is home -- literally; it's my homepage.
- bigiain 6y agoSo you'd prefer a proprietory centralised re-invetion of usenet (with binaries) rather than this proprietory centralised re-invention of IRC?
- 65536 6y agoIt’s not proprietary. https://github.com/Minichan/Minichan https://github.com/Minichan/Minichan It’s open source and MIT licensed. Usenet is flooded with spam to the point of being unusable, and besides, having everyone use the same interface and see images alongside is different from having people use a multitude of different clients that present binary attachments in various different ways. With a decently sized crowd from HN, there could be a lot of interesting content on a Minichan like site. The crowd would be small enough that I don’t think there would be much point in decentralizing it. Besides, with centralization then mods still have a fighting chance of keeping the quality of the posts up to par, if they felt so inclined. The value of anonymous discussion is that every thread is a fresh start. You can express yourself about what’s on your mind without be constrained by your own desire to make everything you say fit into some bigger picture of an identity of self. If that makes sense. But also, it is different from making throwaway accounts on sites where all other people are using identities. Admittedly on Minichan there are many people that use names and tripcodes. But the ability for threads to exist where everyone is on an equal footing is valuable. I’m thinking not so much in terms of discussion itself actually but in terms of creative potential. At their peak, chan style imageboards can be amazingly creative. Imagine an imageboard with people from HN, where people were producing graphics and music like in the Demoscene, but together and for no purpose other than creativity itself. No names or anything. Just pure unfiltered creativity.
- russellbeattie 6y agoBringing back social isn't about getting rid of images and focusing on ASCII text, it's about getting rid of URLs and article snippets, and refocusing solely on user created content. Remember when streams were only filled with updates from old friends and family with things like birthday parties, vacations, graduations, concerts, restaurant meals, etc., and nothing else? (Sort of like Instagram still is, but with text allowed, two-way authorization only and without the "influencers".) Now you log in (FB, Twitter, etc.) only to find out which of your casual acquaintances are the most gullible, racist, sexist, homophobic, sociopathic or worse by the news items they're spewing into their increasingly extreme echo chamber. Sure, the same thing could be conveyed by a selfie wearing a MAGA hat, but it would happen much, much less often. All these services would have to do to get back to their social roots is provide a default filter for news items. But they refuse, and in fact are increasingly manipulating your feed instead to increase "engagement" (read: anger and hate). I'm amazed that a social-only network hasn't taken off yet that provides this basic functionality. It feels like the time is right for something like this.
- soneca 6y agoI am trying to build exactly this, positioning as a personal journal that you can share. But the end game is exactly what you described. I'd love to have your feedback if you care to take a look: https://www.quidsentio.com https://www.quidsentio.com
- ilovetux 6y agoI'm not the gp, but i like the look and feel of the site. I also love the idea. I've been using group messages (mms) for this purpose and its been working great. It has the advantage that nobody needs to go to a website or download an extra app, but it has the drawback that sometimes people forget that I started a group message and will use that thread to start a new conversation with someone and people get messages that were not intended for them. I'm interested in the claim that its impossible to share content with someone that doesn't have permission. How do you protect against copy/paste or screenshots?
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- jbaudanza 6y agoI wanted to see how it would handle non-ascii text so I typed 안녕하세요 and it romanized it to annyeonghaseyo. (This is "hello" in Korean). I did not expect that. I really like the idea of a text-only social network, so I hope this takes off. I think the author should consider supporting other languages though. Seeing romanized text isn't very helpful to people that actually want to read or write in other character sets. It's a cute feature though.
- grishka 6y agoDoes the same thing with Russian as well. (I wonder how it would tell the difference between Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian though?)
- inopinatus 6y agoThere are other romanisations of Korean besides, although this is the government official one. For maximum confusion there are also cyrillizations, how would it go with that:)
- cinquemb 6y ago>>> import langdetect >>> probabilities = {x.lang: x.prob for x in langdetect.detect_langs(text) Works for me, for differentiating Russian and Ukrainian text.
- 0-_-0 6y agoPython strings have a method called casefold() that normalises text in a similar way (although it doesn't seem to work on Korean).
- blotter_paper 6y agoFrom the about section (emphasis added): >Subreply was created by Lucian Marin from the desire of a having a simple to use, English only, public forum that has nothing in common with ancient and untrustworthy social networks. [...] >Limitations >480 characters per reply ASCII only because it works everywhere I could see this being a xenophobic thing, but I could also see it being more about the limited character set (for minimalism). I'm not making a claim about the motivations, but either way your desire seems counter to his vision.
- dvtrn 6y agoI saw this shared here some time ago and never could find it again, appreciate you resurfacing this!
- 6510 6y agoFirefox, after registering, asks to save the second name rather than the username.
- motohagiography 6y agoWhat a profoundly subversive idea.
- aymeric 6y agoI want this to succeed. There is something pure and calming about the idea. Design wise though, I suggest making the content (text written by users) easier to read / scan. Right now, the usernames are more prominent than the comments. Have you tried putting the username and timestamp on the same line as the content? Also maybe use grey colors for less important text.
- syntaxing 6y agoNeat idea but...seems like its IRC all over again?!
- joe_the_user 6y agoWhen you say "social network", do you mean Twitter Clone? It seems like developers in particular have come to regard Twitter as archetypal social networks despite it's many problems and the way the user doesn't really much ability to define their own social graph. IE, N-character limit is still a determiner of Twitter (poisonous) discourse quality, just for example and Twitter isn't something most people enjoy being on but I think it's what people get on to seem/feel important. I think by earlier terminology Facebook/Myspace/Friendster/linkedin are social networks and Twitter/Mastodon/etc are "microblogging services". I think the clone-Twitter impulse is kind of terrible. Not even to say Facebook is inherently better but because I don't think ways of defining one's own social network have been exhausted by all the networks out there (Discord is another format with increasing presences which shows that new ways of organizing connections are still possible).
- unityByFreedom 6y ago> I don't think ways of defining one's own social network have been exhausted by all the networks out there Yeah, it’s fun to build a clone, but what we really need is something innovative.
- andykx 6y agoI touched upon this in another comment, but I miss "profile-based" social media sites. No feed. Ex. I have a profile that I can update with photos, etc. If you want to see those things, add me as a friend and navigate to my profile. If I want to share something with my friends, I can use a feature similar to MySpace's bulletin board, a space to share text-only updates about my life. The actual content of the update is hidden behind a link (the title of the update) so I can decide if I am interested in it or not. I think centralized feeds have destroyed social media. This is especially true of feeds optimized to show "relevant" content.
- ehsankia 6y agoThe character limit is the last of Twitters issue, in my opinion. I think the #1 issue is the retweet model, it leads to people just brainlessly sharing low effort content with a single click. It's similar to how fake news and misleading content thrive on Facebook. But notice how Instagram where it's impossible to easily re-share content (well, you can now in stories) is far less toxic.
- andreygrehov 6y agoThis is the only JavaScript file they use [0]. It's a pure joy. [0] https://subreply.com/static/script.js?v=6 https://subreply.com/static/script.js?v=6
- jekrb 6y agoThis takes me back to how we used to write JavaScript on websites for towns/cities at a company I used to work at. Really a joy to read.
- jcun4128 6y agoWhy do (almost) all the functions have event.preventDefault() ?
- postalrat 6y agoThey are probably submit handlers on forms and they don't want the default form submit to happen.
- dgb23 6y agoNot on desktop right now to inspect. But this is typically the most compatible way to prevent standard anchor and button (or others) functionality. If you want the specific answer you could inspect where these handlers are attached to and then check the MDN documentation for default behavior.
- webninja 6y agoOne possible use is to prevent the standard right click menu from showing on desktop so that a custom right click menu can be shown instead.
- moneywoes 6y agoSilly question but to help learn how should the JS file be done?
- retox 6y agoIt's short, readable and doesn't use any frameworks.
- fallat 6y agoCould've easily been done with ActivityPub.
- thosakwe 6y ago"Easily" isn't really that true here.
- smhmd 6y agoI really hope this takes off. I already love it to the exclusion of Twitter with its thought leader wannabes and tech comedians.
- aahortwwy 6y agoThis is cool. I'm glad people are working in this direction. A common theme that I've noticed among recent upstart social efforts is a focus on platform and/or policy differentiation. I personally believe this is not very important during the phase where a social network is working to reach critical mass. It seems to me that most successful social networks got their start by offering users unique content, by targeting existing, tight-knit communities, or through some combination of the two. Platform and policy help shape the social network, but there needs to be a network to be shaped in the first place - they don't form magically.
- chrismartin 6y agoWe can't embed media but we can still link to it? I welcome efforts to encourage higher-quality discussion on social media, but I don't see how this gets us there. https://subreply.com/about https://subreply.com/about "Subreply was created by Lucian Marin from the desire of a having a simple to use, English only, public forum that has nothing in common with ancient and untrustworthy social networks." What does "untrustworthy" mean in this context, and how is Subreply easier to trust by comparison? The entire terms are "be nice or else". What exactly does "nice" mean and what are the consequences of violating this vague standard? It doesn't say. I don't understand how that's trustworthy.
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- ulisesrmzroche 6y ago"Be nice or else" lol fascist-ville.
- herbstein 6y agoAnd as with most moderation, how explicit can "I" be when advocating for genocide before getting booted? Do I have to just not spout slurs, or do I have to hide it even better? I think moderators would do nicely to consider that not all negativity manifests as "niceness". If I were to say "trans women are just gay men trying to score straight men" (a real opinion of some) there's nothing contained just within that statement that makes it "un-nice", but the thought expressed is exceedingly vile. If someone else then replies "You're a horrible bigot" that would very much be a break with "niceness" or civility - is that allowed? Moderation is harder than it looks, and I've seen forums descent into racist hellholes because moderators only cared about civility and niceness. This has slowly become my number one concern with new forums and places of discussion.
- amwelles 6y agoSo far, your username _can_ be a racist slur and they’re not intending to stop it. It’s a no-go for me.
- democracy 6y agoFidoNet was my text-only social network...
- mudlus 6y agoI wish there was just a protocol to do what Twitter does. Oh wait: https://activitypub.rocks/ https://activitypub.rocks/
- Can_Not 6y agoIs that abandoned? digging deeper I see the test suite has been down for at least a year.
- mitchtbaum 6y agomeh
- basedtho 6y agoHow do I post? There's no send button
- devenblake 6y agoJust press enter.
- basedtho 6y agothanks! i've solved it
- basedtho 6y agouh, okay, so apparently one of my addons was messing with the site
- zemo 6y agoit's more than five years old but the username @fart wasn't taken so I'm pretty sure it's not taking off anyway I'm https://subreply.com/fart https://subreply.com/fart
- TeaDude 6y agoAlways considered doing this sort of thing but with a more myspace-y lean but never did because I knew the users would still find ways to ruin it in multiple ways. Off the top of my head people could still just link to media and it would make grooming far easier without any expectations of profile photos. This is all compounded by the fact that text is much harder to moderate than images as you can't immediately read the situation at a glance and it's not like moderating a normal social network was ever an easy task anyway.
- patcon 6y agoAs i understand, there's some evidence that visual social networks are preferred by females, e.g. pinterest. I recall a hypothesis that it has to do with women (or rather, neurotypes bell-curving around female gender identification) tending to use social media to discuss interpersonal and emotion-based content rather than facts and knowledge-sharing. There is more value placed on relationships with others when using social networks, which perhaps is bolstered by visual elements. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0268401219300696 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026840121... I do wonder whether text-based social networks (e.g., some subreddits, slashdot, HN, mailing lists) are biased toward making a certain sort of mind and neurotype more comfortable. And without those neurotypes, what ways of seeing might that community also now be lacking... disclosure: i usually identify more with feminine ways of relating to knowledge and people, than masculine ones.
- swiley 6y agoI wouldn’t think of reddit as text based. Most of the self posts in subreddits I’m subscribed to link to i.reddit.com or imgur.
- jbaber 6y agoI thought "text-only" meant it was somehow riding over SMS which was blowing my mind. Still a nice idea.
- slim 6y agoThat was Twitter in 2007
- foxhop 6y agoPlease let me follow people. Next let me see all the people I follow on a "pintrest" style page. I should be able to see only their latest subreply. Most recent subreply to oldest. I hit refresh when I'm ready for updates. If I want to see all of somebodies subreplies I will click their username to see all the threads they have created.
- TheMblabla 6y agoI think you can follow/unfollow people. I agree though, it would be nice to see more than a list of usernames in the 'following' page
- njsubedi 6y agoThey should do some kind of username filtering though. It's much easier because everything is in English, so a blacklist of words could do the job. I found several offensive username and names within few minutes of browsing the site.
- usr1106 6y agoblocklist https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23801134 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23801134
- mshockwave 6y agoisn't this similar to Japan's 2ch?
- rawoke083600 6y agoWow really awesome , feels like ascii reddit, but better company. I love the 'about us' page/format. Im definitely stealing (lending) it for my upcoming project.
- techgiant_guy 6y agoSocial distancing is must and most of the businesses are thinking about re-opening their businesses. Check Safe Back to Work Plan for Your Business - https://l1n.com/safe-back-to-work-plan-for-your-business/ https://l1n.com/safe-back-to-work-plan-for-your-business/
- kristaps 6y agoIt's 2020 and "Last name should use English alphabet" when entering an accented Latin letter...
- indranil32 6y agoAfter reading the description and limitations, feel like people are finding new and innovative ways to market & sale - "Laziness".
- cessor 6y agoyou mean... like irc?
- timwaagh 6y agoI have to say it looks very clean, but I can't live with the lack of internationalisation, so personally I will have to pass.
- enriquto 6y ago> English only I understand that they limit the text to ascii. But many other languages can be (sort of) written using only ascii characters. How do they want to enforce that? Do they block users who speak other languages? It sounds callous to me. A great thing about twitter is precisely that it allows to form communities of speakers of tiny, globally irrelevant languages.
- amelius 6y agoI feel like I've become less social since the advent of social networks. And the catch-22 is that quitting social networks seems to make the problem even worse.
- anthk 6y agoAh, yes, usenet.
- johnsas828 6y agoThese guys are building a subscription-based social network. It's a freemium model. Best part is that they are sharing 70% of their subscription fees with original content creators. Every time someone likes your post you'll make money. It's an interesting idea.https://sivaapp.xyz/ https://sivaapp.xyz/
- bugmen0t 6y ago> ASCII only because it works everywhere cries in his native language
- lucb1e 6y agoTried registering, I usually try the username luc on sites to see if it's still free. But that is an "invalid username", no explanation given. So what, do I need to add numbers and special characters? Is my legal name too short? Is it already in use? This tells me nothing. Also, the about page is contradictory: > [brain][muscles] one or two emojis instead of avatars > [...] > ASCII only because it works everywhere Hmm hmm, I see. Emojis work so everywhere that I have to [substitute] them to even talk about it here. Seems to me like "we don't do encoding because it's hard" more than because it works everywhere: any device with emoji support will also at least support the basic characters -- perhaps a unicode snowman won't exist in some fonts, but surely a character like µ should work... This is not just about other languages, either: °C, µm, different length dashes, etc. are regular non-ASCII symbols that occur in English. And no, "ASCII only" is not meant in the sense of "plain text only". Any non-US ASCII is converted (ç->c, ÿ->y, ś->s, µ->u).
- onefuncman 6y agoThe transliteration is somewhat impressive for the bits of UTF-8 non-english I can type...
- masukomi 6y ago> ASCII only" is not meant in the sense of "plain text only". Any non-US ASCII is converted (ç->c, ÿ->y, ś->s, µ->u). wow... way to give the finger to the majority of the world.
- viklove 6y agoI think you're confusing non-US with non-English
- mxuribe 6y agoI like the premise of sort of simplifying things a bit..but nowadays I'm not signing up for any centralized system/network if i can avoid it. For me, an important criteria would be if it can federate (that is, not be centralized), and additionally, ideally if i can self-host my own instance. Gone are the days where i blindly sign up for systems that are centralized. I should clarify that i'm by no means bashing the people behind this effort - kudos to them for trying new stuff! With no offense to them, I'm merely noting that if this effort were combined with the fediverse efforts, then it would interest me.
- amwelles 6y agoNo report button. Already seeing racist usernames.
- guywithabike 6y agoIt’s nice that people are trying different things but the N word is plastered all over the site and when I emailed Lucian about it, he was curt and dismissive and told me to use a “delete” button that doesn’t work. Subreply has no guards against abuse.
- tommit 6y agoFurther yet, there is one guy who chose the N word as their username and they are just bitching about censorship. I don't get it.
- kyoob 6y agoClicked through and the username of someone who'd replied in the thread on the front page was a racial slur. That's enough to turn me away. I'm no prude, but allowing someone to drop a bomb like that in their handle is a big broken window. Doesn't instill hope that I'd have a lot of positive interactions with the folks in this community.
- btomar 6y agoThe best thing I liked is their Terms policy 'Be nice or else' :)
- dgzl 6y agoWas thinking about a dating app where you only get to reveal a few photos/ability to message after answering a short multiple choice quiz managed by the user. The questions can be arbitrary but the point is that the pursued gets to control which pursuer can get to their profile via question navigation. This could help throw off unwanted pursuers.
- aaroninsf 6y agoI would like to see a video-faces-only social network. Setting aside the topic of lookism and other bias issues, I assert that the apparently intrinsic and inevitable degradation of low-bandwidth communication into tribalism and discord, would be greatly retarded by a universal requirement for real-time high-bandwidth messaging. Yes, this would break a lot of other qualities/features; but I'd be willing to give it a try. (Stretch goal, looking-the-camera/image-in-the-eye as an additional requirement...) I know this is counter to the frictionless, skim and summarize and react many-parallel-sources sipping-from-the-stream relationship we have evolved with out various extent social media platforms.... ...but it's about time we tried something really different, in pursuit of finding a better balance between our technologies and our humanity, to put it grandly.