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Ventations.com, or, Please use the site I made this weekend

18 points by joe 19y ago

I and a friend (it was his idea) put together this site over the weekend, on a lark. It's admittedly purposeless, but we're hoping that people don't find it completely useless.

michaelr 19y ago
Replace frustrations with confessions and you get http://grouphug.us/ http://grouphug.us/ -- but, none the less, cool idea.
- SwellJoe 19y ago
  Or socialmoth.
joe 19y ago
I and a friend (it was his idea) put together this site over the weekend, on a lark. It's admittedly purposeless, but we're hoping that people don't find it completely useless.
vidar 19y ago
I've seen worse for sure. At least its not trying to be something bigger than it really is. Have fun with it.
rms 19y ago
Widgetize it.
- joe 19y ago
  Why?
  - natrius 19y ago
    Because that's what people do. Get with the program. I think you should make it a Facebook app.
    - karzeem 19y ago
      +1 point for incisive social commentary. This site remind me of the Bored@(insert name of college library here) sites, which people have managed to find good (and even non-lascivious) uses for. Best of luck with it.
    - rms 19y ago
      amen
steve 19y ago
make the message font bigger. not a bad idea.
- cmoo92 19y ago
  fonts have been enlarged.
nonrecursive 19y ago
this is almost exactly like my site nobodynotes.com , which somehow has become popular only in Iran, and now I can't read anything anyone writes.
- nonrecursive 19y ago
  i hope you had fun making it :)
- Tichy 19y ago
  So that is how the terrorists communicate? ;-)
  - blored 19y ago
    Iranians are not terrorists.
    - SwellJoe 19y ago
      Yet.
      - SwellJoe 19y ago
        You folks need to get your biting political commentary detector fixed. I'm obviously tossing pearls before swine here...
    - Tichy 19y ago
      Well any sentence of the form "people from country xyz are so and so" is quite stupid, I am sorry. I never said Iranians are terrorists. But there are probably terrorists in every country. A few weeks ago some terrorists were caught in Germany, I think at least some of them were Germans, too. But that doesn't mean that "Germans are terrorists". Irakians are not terrorists, either.
- rrival 19y ago
  That is the funniest thing I've read all day. Brilliant.
kirse 19y ago
Man that green/puke color absolutely hurts the eyes, and I don't need to tell you that anonymously either =)
joe 19y ago
UPDATES: Bigger fonts (Caleb mentioned that earlier), Twitter updates (http://twitter.com/ventations http://twitter.com/ventations), and you can now vent via SMS by texting "VENT your_message_here" to 41411. And we like our color scheme. :)
jgrahamc 19y ago
Interesting. Reminds me of something I set up a while ago: http://imlonely.org/ http://imlonely.org/ John.
cmoo92 19y ago
The site has gotten a "facelift" for those of you who hated the previous color scheme

18 points by joe 19y ago

I and a friend (it was his idea) put together this site over the weekend, on a lark. It's admittedly purposeless, but we're hoping that people don't find it completely useless.

michaelr 19y ago

Replace frustrations with confessions and you get http://grouphug.us/ http://grouphug.us/ -- but, none the less, cool idea.

SwellJoe 19y ago
Or socialmoth.

joe 19y ago

I and a friend (it was his idea) put together this site over the weekend, on a lark. It's admittedly purposeless, but we're hoping that people don't find it completely useless.

vidar 19y ago

I've seen worse for sure. At least its not trying to be something bigger than it really is. Have fun with it.

rms 19y ago

Widgetize it.

joe 19y ago
Why?
- natrius 19y ago
  Because that's what people do. Get with the program. I think you should make it a Facebook app.
  - karzeem 19y ago
    +1 point for incisive social commentary. This site remind me of the Bored@(insert name of college library here) sites, which people have managed to find good (and even non-lascivious) uses for. Best of luck with it.
  - rms 19y ago
    amen

steve 19y ago

make the message font bigger. not a bad idea.

cmoo92 19y ago
fonts have been enlarged.

nonrecursive 19y ago

this is almost exactly like my site nobodynotes.com , which somehow has become popular only in Iran, and now I can't read anything anyone writes.

nonrecursive 19y ago
i hope you had fun making it :)
Tichy 19y ago
So that is how the terrorists communicate? ;-)
- blored 19y ago
  Iranians are not terrorists.
  - SwellJoe 19y ago
    Yet.
    - SwellJoe 19y ago
      You folks need to get your biting political commentary detector fixed. I'm obviously tossing pearls before swine here...
  - Tichy 19y ago
    Well any sentence of the form "people from country xyz are so and so" is quite stupid, I am sorry. I never said Iranians are terrorists. But there are probably terrorists in every country. A few weeks ago some terrorists were caught in Germany, I think at least some of them were Germans, too. But that doesn't mean that "Germans are terrorists". Irakians are not terrorists, either.
rrival 19y ago
That is the funniest thing I've read all day. Brilliant.

kirse 19y ago

Man that green/puke color absolutely hurts the eyes, and I don't need to tell you that anonymously either =)

joe 19y ago

UPDATES: Bigger fonts (Caleb mentioned that earlier), Twitter updates (http://twitter.com/ventations http://twitter.com/ventations), and you can now vent via SMS by texting "VENT your_message_here" to 41411. And we like our color scheme. :)

jgrahamc 19y ago

Interesting. Reminds me of something I set up a while ago: http://imlonely.org/ http://imlonely.org/ John.

cmoo92 19y ago

The site has gotten a "facelift" for those of you who hated the previous color scheme