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A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime
- PhillyG 6y agoPretty cool! I saw this on Reddit a min ago, vented something, saw people asking if everyone had come from Reddit, thought ooh I'll post this to hn and saw this post lol
- punkspider 6y agoDid you catch the part about Maddie? It started some hours ago, I think. 1. Someone said something about "Maddie" 2. Somehow someone else started saying things about "Maddie" 3. Next thing that happens is either people ask who Maddie is, and others keep saying various things about "Maddie" 4. Someone made /r/MaddieFans after that Not really something useful, but it's some silly fun. I'd like it if the project evolves somehow.
- PhillyG 6y agoI've seen Maddie mentioned a few times now. I'm thinking that'll be a new meme lol. It's fun how you don't expect to have any kind of conversation through it but there still are some
- PhillyG 6y agoI've got an idea from it: it would make a cool comments section to go with sports or video game livestream. Could do with some content filtering. Text could be different colours or fonts depending on which team they support
- maximp 6y agoI made r/MaddieFans - wanted to see how long it keeps going. Trying to keep it wholesome. It IS pretty incredible that this thread is going after 12+ hours. I think initially a guy talked about his ex-girlfriend Maddie, that he missed her. Imagine there's a real Maddie out there who has no idea?
- chrisco255 6y agoThis reminds me of what happened when TwitchPlaysPokemon took off and all the lore about Bird Jesus, etc just cropped up spontaneously.
- unnouinceput 6y ago"see" is a bit of a stretch here, more like <"read" what others are venting at the same time> is a more accurate description. If this would add video/pics it will go down the path of omegle real fast.
- ineedasername 6y agoChat roulette. Supposed to be a sort of speed-dating inspired conversation system. It quickly descended into random people showing off genitals. Sometimes by first acting normal and then... The sudden reveal.
- mikewarot 6y agoIt's an honest version of Twitter!
- ketamine__ 6y agoBeing alive is expensive
- ineedasername 6y agoJust reading the title I thought, "sounds a bit like chat roulette". Then I clicked the link and found that unfortunately, it had a bit in common with just how quickly the posts emerging became crude or worse.
- typhonius 6y agoLooks like you can query the database directly via their REST API: https://api.ventspace.life/api/v1/ventpost?sort=id,desc&size=10 https://api.ventspace.life/api/v1/ventpost?sort=id,desc&size...
- PhillyG 6y agoI wonder what the most common word will be? I'd guess between "covid" and "Maddie"
- cosmojg 6y agoWho is Maddie?
- HDMI_Cable 6y agoI think Maddie McCann, she was a young girl who disappeared in Portugal sometime a few years ago. She's been in the news recently I believe.
- PhillyG 6y agoOooof I was assuming it was a different Maddie. But yes that's the most famous Maddie in the UK. Might be a coincidence though. It feels like it was over ten years the Maddie you're thinking of disappeared while on holiday (Edit: looked it up) Maddie McCann disappeared in may 2007
- maximp 6y agoA guy was on talking about his ex-gf Maddie, and then it carried on.
- 867-5309 6y agoover the last ~20hrs, the most common words and their frequencies are "the": 12263, "i": 12212, "fuck": 9015, "you": 8940. with stopwords removed, these become "fuck": 9015, "guess": 4084, "nums": 4062, "cunny": 3728. out of interest "maddie": 857, "covid": 231 I wondered too
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoI haven't looked, but I'm guessing that it will be filled with ethnic slurs and bitcoin spam soon, if it isn't already.
- korethr 6y agoWell, we already have ascii penises so we're well on our way.
- maximp 6y agoYou should look. It's actually been pretty clean so far!
- rtchau 6y agoYeah, you definitely called that one. It's like a smouldering cornucopia of antisemitism, "Buy GME", penises, "Death to America", more penises, more GME... if an alien race were using this as a tool to profile us and decide our fate, we'd be toast. Props to the author for creating something entertaining, but it just goes to show you can't control what people post.
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- noisy_boy 6y agoMuch easier to read in the dev tools console with occasional clear()
- recursive4 6y agoUpvote if you're pro-humanity after witnessing this bramble.
- Nemrod67 6y agoLet's try to play Virtual Jesus to see if this faceless demigod that is Humanity has it in itself to accept what it is and act accordingly :p
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- tenryuu 6y agoPosts are probably going to suck for the time being as this just circles around to people who don't really need to use it but only observe. Once it fades out of sites like HN and those similar, hopefully post quality will improve
- kristopolous 6y agoI've been wanting to do a tech trash talk site for a while. Sometimes I've got nothing but hate and vitriol for something and it'd be great to have a designated anonymous space where people can brood and lament. You can do things like sort by most capital letters and profanity density or incoherency and spelling errors. Now that I actually typed this out, it sounds really easy to code.
- na85 6y ago>Sometimes I've got nothing but hate and vitriol for something and it'd be great to have a designated anonymous space where people can brood and lament. This is me with like 90% of tech, but instead of sometimes it's all the time.
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoSpewing vitriol can be quite the art. I've always been fond of the British variety. A site dedicated to the fine art of bile could be entertaining.
- aurbano 6y agoI started https://dotdot.im https://dotdot.im as a random chat place sort of for this, or for nothing, don't really know... Nothing's stored at this point, chat's only live in memory while at least 1 user is there, and cleared after. Still trying to figure out what I'll do with it
- kristopolous 6y agoi'm thinking about something that uses pip npm and apt to autogenerate lists of software so there's "topics" and "people" who can either be cowardly anonymous or have a psuedonym. The author can use version numbers if they'd like and also browse from the command line. You can follow either topics or people, it's very microblogging, I know. it's not meant to be productive, it's meant to be cathartic for those times where you inherit a project that's using a terrible tool that's 4 versions behind with no upgrade path and you don't have the time or resources to rewrite the code so instead you have to painfully maintain it. It's for those things you simply disagree with. The gtk-3 filechooser, firefox still having ctrl+q that could essentially be renamed "kill -9" or other things that you need to work around and everyone's gotten the idea that there's no intention whatsoever of accepting one of the many pull requests to fix it that are just hanging out collecting dust. It's not for the good stuff, it's for the bad stuff that because we live in a world bound by material reality we also have to use. The banned stuff would be quite different than other places. No proper names might be appropriate - for instance, no witch-hunting or bullying specific people behind the software. It's an interesting line. "God damn it, SimpleAcme must honestly be written by intoxicated people who just pass out on their keyboards and roll their head around in dreams smashing code in to their IDE" is acceptable. But replace "SimpleAcme" with "Jonathan Q. Coder" and then it's maybe over the line? I dunno ... I should try it out and see what happens
- dfw4ever 6y agoYou should sanitize the messages on the server side, not the client. It's possible to inject images/scripts/links on the page.
- apatters 6y agoThis is great. It fills the same role as Twitter, but people's posts disappear after a few seconds, making it better than Twitter. I'm serious here. Twitter's a cesspool filled with people venting about random crap. So is Ventscape. We all need to vent sometimes, there's nothing inherently wrong with that. But the problem with Twitter is that it preserves and amplifies your venting until the end of time, which is the absolute worst thing to do with venting. Similar to the advice that when you're angry at someone you should write them an email, pour it all out and then delete that email instead of sending it. Sometimes we need to get stuff off of our chest but the insanity of the modern world is that once we do, it's archived and mined and maybe even used against us 15 years later. Ventscape solves that problem (conditional on its privacy and data retention policies I suppose...)
- wingerlang 6y agoIs that your only experience with Twitter? Twitter fills about a million more roles than venting. I don’t see any “cesspool” on my feed in fact.
- acje 6y agoIt's a personalized echo chamber. YMMV
- yreg 6y agoFollowing stuff that interests you is not an echo chamber.
- HDMI_Cable 6y agoA machine learning algorithm then uses that stuff to recommend content which is similar. If one engages with opinionated stuff, then they'll only get recommended stuff that conforms to their original opinion, forming an echo chamber.
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- Red_Tarsius 6y agoCongrats it's a very fun idea! I haven't been this excited about a website in a while. I hope it's going to stay up for a long time. Good job OP!
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- gnicholas 6y agoReminds me of Secret. I miss Secret. Why did it have to die? Once the apps were built, I can't imagine it was that expensive to keep the servers up.
- npunt 6y agoSecret was a vector for harassment and innuendo via friend of friend connections and deserved its fate. This on the other hand feels like early internet, overly personal in a charming way.
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- raggi 6y agoYou're warned: const messageText = inputTextBox.value.replace(/<\/?[^>]+(>|$)/g, ""); var $newdiv = $('<div class="' + messageDivClass + '"><p>' + messageText + '<p/><div/>').css({ 'opacity': '0.95' });
- szhu 6y agoThe safe, proper way to do this is both shorter and more readable! Both with jQuery: const $newdiv = $('<div>') .addClass(messageDivClass) .text(inputTextBox.value) .css({'opacity': '0.95'}); and without: const newdiv = document.createElement('div'); newdiv.classList.add(messageDivClass); newdiv.innerText = inputTextBox.value; newdiv.style.opacity = '0.95';
- VentScape 6y agoHey, creator of the site here, thank you so much for the tip! Unfortunately I'm quite new to full stack. ~1.5 months ago I didn't know a lick of HTML (let alone CSS, JS, any backend framework, AWS, etc), and I'm making lots of mistakes along the way. Currently trying to figure out how to improve my DB performance as Spring's default pagination seems to be quite slow and my site is getting hugged to death at the moment. If anyone has any tips for that especially I'm all ears. At any rate, your suggestion seems easy enough to put in, so I'll put it in ASAP! Thanks again
- eindiran 6y agoCongratulations on getting to the front page of HN and Reddit / mostly surviving the hug of death!
- andreareina 6y agoSounds like you're using offset for pagination. https://use-the-index-luke.com/no-offset https://use-the-index-luke.com/no-offset
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- nxpnsv 6y agoBefore I did anything the message "I coded a honeypot for the FBI and I have a bad conscience" appeared on screen. I don't know who you are, but you made me laugh!
- d3nj4l 6y agoSo many people venting about work, it's interesting.
- jcun4128 6y agoThat is neat the random fading text, wonder the insights gleaned from this.
- enriquto 6y agoThere is a rendering problem in my browser (firefox with custom larger fonts): the textarea where you are supposed to enter text is half-cropped by the boundary of the window at the center.
- gitowiec 6y agoDoesn't work responsively on latest Android Firefox
- ashkankiani 6y agoI think I'm going to copy this site, but actually make it real-time. What I've read about how the creator implemented it seems like it would never actually be able to achieve that. It also seemed like quite an expensive approach as far as hosting goes. I like the idea, so I think I'll make something that I can actually keep online forever without maintenance.
- Budaa 6y agoTetrachroma by Pusha is a perfect soundtrack for this.
- Budaa 6y agoTetrachroma by Puscha - is a perfect soundtrack for this.
- jyriand 6y agoGettting 504 right now
- briandear 6y agoThis would actually be an awesome art installation. Imagine this on a huge screen in Times Square. Sort of a real-time steam relief valve.
- GeneticGenesis 6y agoThis was briefly interesting and then I quickly started to see blatant racism, threats and rape accusations.
- ballenf 6y agoMaybe publishing the IP addresses of those is the real "show HN" that we'll see next week.
- DoingSomeThings 6y agoReminds me of that Black Mirror episode
- eruci 6y agoThey should enable people to vote vents up and down and to have a 'trending vents' feature just like twitter.
- dstola 6y agoInteresting how the whole thing devolves into 4chan-esque cesspool the moment anonymity is introduced. Humans are interesting creatures.
- shmde 6y agoJust to see if its realtime, I asked the users to write potato in the box and submit. Saw many potatoes pop up. Good job dev.
- conqrr 6y agoI can DDOS the space by posting large text frequently.
- 01635 6y agoRun this in console for continuous messages: let i = 0; setInterval(() => { document.querySelector('.input-form__input').value = `Your message shown ${i} times...`; document.querySelector('.input-form__button').click(); i++; }, 20000);
- acatsdream 6y agoMany CORS errors on ff.
- 867-5309 6y agosome word counts, for fun: https://www.reddit.com/r/VentScape/comments/l6tvl1/top_50_words_seen_in_the_last_24_hours/ https://www.reddit.com/r/VentScape/comments/l6tvl1/top_50_wo...