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- DiabloD3 12y agoThis is interesting, but the front page is rather cluttered and makes it hard to pay attention to the core message.
- jstanek 12y agoWhat exactly is this? It looks to me like a multiplayer vaporwave-inspired shirt maker.
- at_ 12y agoMaybe I'm overreacting b/c this aligns with my interests pretty directly but this is outrageously cool + well-executed. And better yet looks like there's already a bunch of interesting users on there. Completely eliminates the technical barriers to creating this type/genre of net art so it's gonna be interesting seeing the effect that has alone How long has this been around?
- of 12y agoto.be has been around since 2012 / 2013. I'm glad you think it's cool.
- yabatopia 12y agoThe domain to.be has a long history in Belgium (.be is the CcTLD for Belgium). Before and around 2000 it was one of the most popular websites there, it was literally the place.to.be. I always liked the domain name, it was clever and with lots of potential. At one stage it was a well-known chat site, but a succession of pivots and different owners led to a obscure existence. And now it somehow resurrected as a t-shirt printing company based in the US.
- arcameron 12y agoCompletely white page with NoScript, please add a <noscript> tag
- of 12y agoThat's a good idea. Why would someone downvote this?
- yzzxy 12y agoBecause it's silly to ask web developers to cater to a specific extension used by a marginal minority of people. Much better to use a more general method for when JS is unavailable. And people using noscript or similar tools (like myself) should know by now when a page fails to check that first.
- of 12y agoBut the comment applies to anyone who's not using JavaScript in their web browser. Although I like programming in JavaScript, there's many people I know that consider JavaScript itself to be a silly extension of what a web browser should do.
- madeofpalk 12y agomany people I know !== many people The percentage of people that considering JavaScript "to be a silly extension of what a web browser" is so small that it would be a rounding error in most charts.
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- allendoerfer 12y agoPretty nihilistic argument as the same is true for everything else mentioned on HN.
- jobposter1234 12y agoAnd many people, including those who made this website, consider Javascript to be an integral part of what a web browser should do. Would you complain about a free video game if it only worked on playstation, and you had only an xbox but still refused a free playstation?
- state 12y agoWho owns the content?
- of 12y agoThe terms are here: http://to.be/terms http://to.be/terms There's a long section on "Ownership" that I don't fully understand, but you can interpret if you're interested.
- icebraining 12y agoIANAL, but seems like a typical clause. Essentially you hold the copyright, but you agree to give them a perpetual license to do whatever they please with the stuff you submit (including allowing other users to incorporate it in their own works).
- blacksqr 12y ago|| !
- rvern 12y agoor not (to be)?
- dinkumthinkum 12y agoMy advice is the demo video should show something compelling being created not a bunch of completely random nonsense that does nothing to evoke any kind of connection with anyone. Presumably you created this with this Hamletesque title to create memorable "Internety" experiences. Show one. Otherwise I think it is hard to understand. Sure, someone else could probably create something much better than is in that video but if even the creator can't create something compelling ... its a bit weird. Just my advice. It is an interesting drawing tool, otherwise.
- jbullfrog 12y agoI thought the same thing. Was wondering why the lack of anything substantial created. They made a video. Could have made a more complete project with their product for the video. :) Regardless, cool idea.
- r109 12y agoMyspace and Geocities had a baby? But they're both dead?
- pcthrowaway 12y agoMore like Google Wave and Google Docs had a baby.
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- codemac 12y agoAdBlock Plus blocked this entire page, if anyone is seeing an entirely white page like I was.
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoPerhaps the domain was previously used for serving ads and the block list needs updating.
- GigabyteCoin 12y agoSo did noscript. I temporarily allowed the domain and it was well worth the click.
- Kiro 12y agoDon't you expect most pages to be broken when using noscript?
- GigabyteCoin 12y agoYes, but most are at least visible.
- kaybe 12y agoIf I only have to allow one page, it's all good. But then the first page wants to load from another 10 pages. I allow the non-tracker ones, usually two or three. Reload.. and they want to load from another 5 pages. I usually give up here since I'm not that interested anyway. Why the heck do you need code from over 15 external pages?
- GigabyteCoin 12y agoIt is truly amazing how bloated most webpages are these days.
- intrasight 12y ago
- grandalf 12y agoLove it. A free form virtual world. Been wanting to build one of these for a long time.
- quest88 12y agoI don't get it.
- Det_Jacobian 12y agoThe concept was a lot more interesting to me than the implementation. I thought I would end up being able to view a and click bunch of masked, active HTML items, instead it seems to bake it down into a single image. Editing tools looked neat, but "print on a T-shirt" was the last thing I expected, and a disappointment.
- of 12y agoHmm, I'm not sure what you mean by 'bake it down into a single image'. You should be able to drag around the HTML elements on the field, if you've made an account and are working on your own field, or pulled it from someone else.
- hypron 12y agoLooks like a great site to make dank memes with.
- NiklasPersson 12y agoI'm thinking modern art, make no sense, have fun, be "strange", create something raw and unique... yeah. Some people will have fun with this I'm sure. Not for me at this moment in life though, but that shouldn't matter to anyone. Cheers
- Orangeair 12y agoIt's like a hipster Web 2.0 version of YTMND.
- bshimmin 12y agoI feel like someone spent a lot of money on the domain and then subsequently tried to work out what the hell to do with it, "pivoted" a number of times, and somehow ended up with... whatever the hell this is.
- Mahn 12y agoIt looks stupid now, but in retrospect twitter and instagram looked stupid as well. It's the kind of startup that either fails horribly or explodes in usage inexplicably.
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- chunkiestbacon 12y agoTumblr will love it! ;)
- WA 12y agoCould be used to create "mood boards" for games, stories, art
- unicornporn 12y agoTarget group: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seapunk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seapunk https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=%22seapunk%22 https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=%22seapunk%22
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- emehrkay 12y agoI haven't had a chance to read through some of the source, but does anyone know how the photo editing is done? Are there libs to handle those effects?
- _almosnow 12y agoNo snide. The fact that most here don't get it makes me think this project will be, at least, moderately successful.
- antihero 12y agoSomehow, I'm not sure how, you've crippled the scrollbar on my browser :S
- MyNameIsMK 12y agoWell done! clap
- nicwolff 12y agoSafari 7.1, no extensions: blank page. Firefox 34.0.5, clean install: blank page. Chrome 39.0.2171.99, clean install: blank page.