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Maybe I'm just naive, but I find this insanely exciting. Particularly the analogy of Youtube vs TikTok. Having the source code right next to the executable, rig

Maybe I'm just naive, but I find this insanely exciting. Particularly the analogy of Youtube vs TikTok. Having the source code right next to the executable, right there in your browser seems very powerful. If it pans out right, the next gen of memes could be games like the ones showcased here, and then people "fork" it, and change some of the code and make it their own. I have nothing to do with repl.it, just really happy to see this.

enos_feedler 5y ago
I remember doing this in high school manually. We took a fly swatting game and replaced the sprites with my friends face (regular and splatted). A platform that enabled all of this would be out of control
lancesells 5y ago
This is really interesting because this is what glitch.com seemed to promote as their number one feature for awhile. From their latest homepage it seems like they took a step back and are promoting a web-based IDE with the forks being a little hard to find.
- qbasic_forever 5y ago
  If you want to go even further back, Microsoft's Popfly experiment from 15-ish years ago was a similar idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Popfly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Popfly
  - lancesells 5y ago
    Thanks. I don't recall Popfly at all. Even further: Dub Music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dub_music#%22Versions%22_and_experiments_with_studio_mixing_(Late_1960s) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dub_music#%22Versions%22_and_e...
- anildash 5y ago
  We’re always iterating, testing out different emphasis on creation vs. discovery since we care a lot about both. But every one of the 10 million+ apps on Glitch already has a page where it lives so folks can remix it or share it with their team or add it to a collection. So if you take something like the official Eleventy starter, it has a page like this, and you can see who else has added it to a collection, etc. https://glitch.com/~11ty https://glitch.com/~11ty Generally people are finding Glitch apps through their peers who make them, or embedded in the docs they read, or by someone sharing it at a hackathon or whatever, so we de-emphasized direct discovery on the homepage. If folks like being able to find things that way, I’m sure we’ll bring it back; it’s not a comment on the utility of having the ability to create, share & reuse millions of web apps easily, obviously we’re hugely in favor of that.
  - easrng 5y ago
    People on the Glitch Support forum (Including me) have expressed interest in the return of the homepage so I'm happy to hear you are considering it.
  - lancesells 5y ago
    FWIW I think the latest homepage explains what Glitch is / does much more than the previous one.
Kiro 5y ago
Where do you see the showcase?

enos_feedler 5y ago

I remember doing this in high school manually. We took a fly swatting game and replaced the sprites with my friends face (regular and splatted). A platform that enabled all of this would be out of control

lancesells 5y ago

This is really interesting because this is what glitch.com seemed to promote as their number one feature for awhile. From their latest homepage it seems like they took a step back and are promoting a web-based IDE with the forks being a little hard to find.

qbasic_forever 5y ago
If you want to go even further back, Microsoft's Popfly experiment from 15-ish years ago was a similar idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Popfly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Popfly
- lancesells 5y ago
  Thanks. I don't recall Popfly at all. Even further: Dub Music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dub_music#%22Versions%22_and_experiments_with_studio_mixing_(Late_1960s) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dub_music#%22Versions%22_and_e...
anildash 5y ago
We’re always iterating, testing out different emphasis on creation vs. discovery since we care a lot about both. But every one of the 10 million+ apps on Glitch already has a page where it lives so folks can remix it or share it with their team or add it to a collection. So if you take something like the official Eleventy starter, it has a page like this, and you can see who else has added it to a collection, etc. https://glitch.com/~11ty https://glitch.com/~11ty Generally people are finding Glitch apps through their peers who make them, or embedded in the docs they read, or by someone sharing it at a hackathon or whatever, so we de-emphasized direct discovery on the homepage. If folks like being able to find things that way, I’m sure we’ll bring it back; it’s not a comment on the utility of having the ability to create, share & reuse millions of web apps easily, obviously we’re hugely in favor of that.
- easrng 5y ago
  People on the Glitch Support forum (Including me) have expressed interest in the return of the homepage so I'm happy to hear you are considering it.
- lancesells 5y ago
  FWIW I think the latest homepage explains what Glitch is / does much more than the previous one.

Kiro 5y ago

Where do you see the showcase?