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- mcherm 2y agoWhy on Earth would I trust this?
- abdibrokhim 2y agoWhy on Earth won't you trust this?? I'm good guy)) check yaps.gg. or yaps.lol or just back to yaps.chat. cheers!!
- GranPC 2y agoEven if it's "end-to-end encrypted", what stops me from opening two connections simultaneously and connecting them to one another in order to eavesdrop?
- latexr 2y agoIt’s a bit awkward that “in 2025” (your words) you’re focusing so heavily on gender, especially with a subpar implementation: You only allow “male” and “female” (which right off the bat will make many people close the website, even if they identify with either), have zero checks (as if people didn’t lie about that on the internet all the time), and make people type it themselves (when it should be a dropdown or radio button, if you only allow limited choice). Why be so adamant about it? It’s not like you built a dating service. The website has a shady vibe in general, I expect most women will be put off by the very thought of outing themselves to thirsty creeps.
- kaliqt 2y ago[flagged]
- givinguflac 2y agoI logged in to say the exact same thing as the parent comment. There’s no bias; just common sense and respect for others in 2025.
- anonzzzies 2y agoI agree with the assessment; also, the implementation is really strange; why are we typing it?
- wordofx 2y ago[flagged]
- cedws 2y ago>Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity. Depending on the context, this may include sex-based social constructs as well as gender expression. What you are referring to is sex.
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- immibis 2y agoBy making gender matching even a thing at all, they're obviously trying to make another horny creep site. Otherwise you wouldn't have that feature and certainly wouldn't ask it first thing. Consider it a compliment that transgender and nonbinary people are considered wise enough to stay off such sites.
- raspyberr 2y ago>which right off the bat will make many people close the website What world are you living in?
- latexr 2y agoIf you don’t think that happens, you’re not paying attention to the zeitgeist.
- aydyn 2y agoNo offense, but you are in a bubble.
- Marsey 2y agoThis so much this.
- latexr 2y agoLiving in a bubble means you are unaware of outside perspectives. For instance, if person A says “there are people who believe the Earth is flat” and person B denies they exist, the latter is living in a bubble because they are unaware of other widespread ideas (regardless of their accuracy or lack thereof). Person A doesn’t need to believe or agree with a viewpoint to understand there are people who do. I have met people who would reject the website for that reason and those who wouldn’t. By all means, discuss and disagree with it, but don’t close your eyes and ears and deny their existence. If you don’t realise both camps exist, by definition you are the one in the bubble. Which I don’t fault you for, because to an extent we all live in bubbles. It is impossible for any human in one lifetime to be aware of all different realities. The very fact that we have access to HN and choose to comment here already places us in a bubble which excludes most of the world. Every other facet of our lives puts us in different bubbles of different sizes for different contexts. To believe oneself immune to or devoid of bubbles falls somewhere between the naive and the arrogant.
- aydyn 2y ago
- asdf6969 2y ago> which right off the bat will make many people close the website These people dominate every other discussion online and it makes me like his site even more if they’re not there. Most people feel the same way as me.
- AnyTimeTraveler 2y agoI genuinely have no idea what to chose in the gender-screen (since neither option applies) and can't just say "You don't get to know that". Why is this needed? Edit: clarification
- kennysoona 2y agoYou could just use what's on your license or ID. The site seems to be a kind of dating/singles chat, if that's the case having genders/sexes makes some sense, although indeed it could be better.
- latexr 2y ago> You could just use what's on your license or ID. Not only could that not match your real gender, there are places where IDs allow for more than those two options. https://www.bustle.com/p/12-states-with-a-third-gender-option-on-ids-pave-the-way-for-non-binary-recognition-17988940 https://www.bustle.com/p/12-states-with-a-third-gender-optio...
- wordofx 2y ago[flagged]
- kennysoona 2y ago> Not only could that not match your real gender, If it doesn't, choose the other or closest option. It's unlikely there isn't one. > there are places where IDs allow for more than those two options. Sure, like here in NYC. That's really more of a personality thing IMO, which gets conflated with sex. Wherever necessary, things still reduce down to a binary choice, with the rest being details.
- shakna 2y ago... And if you're intersex, what then?
- sharperguy 2y agoIt's clear to me that the criticism is coming from people who had never used omegle. While it's all valid, it was extraordinarily popular anyway.
- kaliqt 2y ago[flagged]
- latexr 2y agoConsensus on criticism you don’t like does not equal brigading. Everyone so far has been respectful and commented on the thing that is most salient about the website. And of course it’s around the same time, the post was just submitted. If everyone keeps saying you reek, consider giving your armpits a sniff before accusing everyone of ganging up.
- abdibrokhim 2y agoi missed Omegle so made one;) but UI/UX pretty wild!!
- 4ggr0 2y agothis is giving me "anonymous chat for horny people", probably because of the immediate gender choice. i can imagine most first messages looking like "a/s/l?"(age, sex, location). source: was once a teenage boy with internet access.
- kaliqt 2y agoThe UI is nice and clean but the chat partner takes a while (closed out of it while waiting), I'd say try to add indication of estimated wait times, and honestly? A mini game while you wait like the dinosaur on Chrome. Or, at least a request to notify you when someone does get connected. Little things go a long way in UX.
- abdibrokhim 2y agoOf course working on that . Drop any ideas below!!
- Fethbita 2y agoChanging the app on iOS causes the WebSocket to fail, which made it so that my chat was lost. Sending new messages didn’t make me connect automatically, which is a shame.
- abdibrokhim 2y agookeyyyyyyyy, next steps: 1. will update gender selection to something meaningful (even a bit nice options). 2. will add games, or something nice things while you are connecting with stranger. 3. and many more interesting things specifically for "one-time" approach stuff. lol
- abdibrokhim 2y agoWOW! Is it YC Effect? in 4 hours... Visitors: 1,246 Page Views: 1,641