GabeK0

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by GabeK0 5y ago
Ah, sorry to hear. My guess would be that it's Google Recaptcha (something that I was forced to add to fend off spammers and very happy to remove if there's a better solution). Another option is the iOS app version of the site (if
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by GabeK0 5y ago
Great question, I could speak at quite some length about this. My thinking has been that anonymity + knowing that your messages will disappear in a few seconds creates the lowest pressure possible environment to say something that you might
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by GabeK0 5y ago
Oh goodness have I experienced spammers. The first version that I made ~6 months ago had basically zero protection against spammers/trolls/etc, and it's been a non-stop arms race since then. I could rant for long hours about
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by GabeK0 5y ago
Awesome, so glad you're enjoying it! If you have any issues with site, suggestions or just wanna chat about ventscape, my email is open to you or anyone else reading this: gabe@ventscape.life
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by GabeK0 5y ago
This is already done! But then the spammers would just slow their spam bots down under or near the rate limit, and it would get very annoying seeing random max length messages appear over and over again every few seconds. You could make the
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by GabeK0 5y ago
Try hard refreshing and it should connect. I sometimes encounter this if there's a weird cache issue. If that doesn't work, let me know
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by GabeK0 5y ago
Yup, I've seen that first hand in the early days of the site, which is why a huge proportion of my work on this has gone into moderation :)
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by GabeK0 5y ago
Hmmm, slowness might be caused by minimizing / tabbing out and a bunch of messages building up. I can definitely fix this though. If it gets slow during normal usage, that's another story that I'll have to look into. And rega
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by GabeK0 5y ago
Yes good point. There is some per-user rate limiting. But there can be enough people on simultaneously that the whole screen still gets filled up. Our idea is to eventually split people into separate "rooms" automatically if too m
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by GabeK0 5y ago
Great thinking. I also want to make it location based eventually, but it's hard enough to get enough people on simultaneously for it to be interesting so I think this could only be done if we somehow get a huge user base. AR I haven&#x
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by GabeK0 5y ago
VentScape is a large, anonymous, chat room where all messages fade away and disappear after a few seconds, an idea born out of my deepest loneliness during the height of the pandemic. The anonymity, ephemerality, and other features work tog
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Show HN: VentScape – Minimalistic site to vent, chat and see others do the same(ventscape.life)
102 points by GabeK0 5y ago|50 comments
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by GabeK0 5y ago
VentScape is a large, anonymous, chat room where all messages fade away and disappear after a few seconds, an idea born out of my deepest loneliness during the height of the pandemic. The anonymity, ephemerality, and other features work tog
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Show HN: An anonymous app to vent, chat, and see others do the same in real-time(testflight.apple.com)
13 points by GabeK0 5y ago|2 comments