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Show HN: A website for sharing the "Good, Bad, and Why"s of urban spaces
Hello HN! We're a small team in Kyoto building a website called dédédé (https://dedede.de/en https://dedede.de/en) that invites people to share the various positives, negatives, oddities, etc. they find in urban spaces.
The project grew out of an earlier effort where we'd built an app that assisted participatory urbanism workshops run by local nonprofits. With the new platform, we're trying to build something similar but more casual and hopefully with broader appeal, that'll be fun to use even outside of formal workshop situations.
We'd love to hear your thoughts!
- ripley12 2y agoThis is very cool, thanks for sharing it. I'll try to add some entries about Vancouver when I have time.
- kappasan 2y agoThanks, would love to see posts from outside Japan!
- riffic 2y agofeels a lot like a pattern language! I'd love for your site to catch on in my neck of the woods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_language
- kappasan 2y agoHuh I vaguely remember hearing that term somewhere... will read up on it, thanks!
- mc3301 2y agoOh cool, when I have free time I have many dozens in Japan that I could add.
- kappasan 2y agoOP here - just to let you know the signup form asks for an email address, but we're just using it as the user ID so a non-working address works fine. EDIT: apart from one minor inconvenience, you won't be able to reset your password if you forget it
- bythreads 2y agoLove it, simple sentiment gathering. AI bots are going to love to crawl that one ;)
- upghost 2y agoIncidentally while exploring this site I discovered how much better the highlight and "translate" feature of iOS has gotten! Thanks kappasan!
- chachan 2y agoThis is the internet I miss.
- sgc 2y agoTechnical note: I am using FF on Linux, and needed to go to google translate to be able to read the site. The main page [1] loads with images, but when I click through, the images don't load on the detail pages [2]. 1. https://dedede-de.translate.goog/en?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://dedede-de.translate.goog/en?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=e... 2. eg: https://dedede-de.translate.goog/en/posts/hKOjEJV9mf?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://dedede-de.translate.goog/en/posts/hKOjEJV9mf?_x_tr_s...
- kappasan 2y agoThanks so much, we'll look into it!
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- kappasan 2y agoI guess you're referring to this one? https://dedede.de/en/posts/CimzQqTYi4 https://dedede.de/en/posts/CimzQqTYi4 FWIW that's a post I made myself - the German embassy in Tokyo put up a series of posters explaining some German words, and that's the image they chose for "schadenfreude".
- ash_091 2y agoCould you explain that? Absent other context (i.e. a broader collection of works demonstrating some bias) I'm not understanding how this poster can possibly demonstrate "offensive racial and cultural bigotry".
- cc101 2y agoIf it had been two Asian girls, it would not have invoked the image of non-Asian people lacking respect for Asians. This image encourages hostility and even bigotry among Asians. Schadenfreude does not require both parties to be different in some meaningful way. The poster confuses schadenfreude with cultural bigotry in which schadenfreude may play a non-essential roll.
- southernplaces7 2y agosee my comment above. It's you and those who view the world in the same way who have the automatic fixation with race, not someone just showing human interaction.
- cc101 2y agoYour comment is a personal attack. It adds nothing else to the discussion. We don't do that sort of thing here.
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- sinuhe69 2y agoAdding automatic translation will make the site more accessible for a broader audience.
- kappasan 2y agoI agree that is very true. We'll see if there are free (or very cheap) solutions we could use.