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First saw this on lobste.rs . Great idea, perhaps allow for a little customisation? I'd like minimal animation, just a counter of present people and a green dot that vibrates when someone is typing. Clicking either opens a chat box with last 20 minutes.

loloquwowndueo•2h ago

> NOTE: This project has been mostly vibe-coded

I deeply appreciate the honesty here. I’ll pass based on the vibecodedness of it but perhaps it won’t be a dealbreaker for others.

lolptdr•2h ago

Is it the philosophical reason you refuse to engage or is it because you don’t trust the security of this project?

brody_hamer•1h ago

Easy come, easy go. I find most vibe coded projects are abandonware.

Also, in this context, security.

melvinczyk•2h ago

I like the idea of this like a town square for websites. Nice job

monkeymeister•2h ago

Neat idea! It's simple but very effective - and I really enjoy the detail of the benches and the tree. Very nice.

I wouldn't add it to any of my sites due to the unmoderated nature of it - seeing some fairly unsavory things in your demo - but that's just a little tweak, I'm sure!

sourcegrift•2h ago

If your website attracts such elements perhaps there's a reason?

DougN7•1h ago

The demo is attracting the HN crowd and it’s getting… well, let’s just say this crowd is about as good as it gets online.

wahnfrieden•1h ago

openai has a free moderation endpoint. no reason to not use it.

edit: downvoters either know something I don't about its unsuitability, or have outdated info on it and think it's against terms to use it for reasons unrelated to GPT. it's not against terms.

cyanydeez•2h ago

would make more sense with webrtc.

lellow•2h ago

haha nice project! I stayed there for a couple of minutes and had such a good time!

mkl•2h ago

Not really a square if it's 1D - everyone ends up on top of each other.

lambdaone•1h ago

I just took a look at the page's own 'town square'. At the moment, it's largely full of people saying offensive things for the sake of it.

dools•1h ago

So it’s a twitter plugin?

trollbridge•59m ago

Within about 300ms I thought “moderation is going to be a problem”.

oraziorillo•1h ago

I love the idea! The next step is to add role play games in town squares.

patcon•1h ago

I've been playing with presence too...! I def am thinking about using it more for real-time motion communication (which is largely missing from web) rather than text (which is very overrepresented, and where most moderation comes in).

I was toying with the idea of making a little crowd representation sticky at the bottom, like watching a screen together :)

Regardless, I love concepts like this. Thanks!

amatecha•1h ago

Oh what the heck? That's super cool! Awesome idea. Possible future enhancement: some basic day/night (or even weather?) design elements that match the timezone of the person whose site it is? Still, doesn't even need it, it's really cool as-is!

I could see it being used as some avenue for saying toxic stuff, so I'm suddenly feeling like the only allowed actions should be ones that can never be harmful (like text interactions are just choosing from a pre-set list)..

mirkofr•52m ago

Maybe adding rooms will be a good move

zhxiaoliang•40m ago

I enjoyed the design.

hallman76•19m ago

I've always wondered if we could find a way to add content website's content without it turning into a shitshow. MLS listings / Zillow is an interesting use-case. A realtor might describe something as "sun-filled" but omit that the home is next to a 24/7 dump truck repair warehouse.

afpx•12m ago

There was a thing from the 90s kind of like this called Third Voice. It was a cool idea, but I remember there being a lot of backlash from brands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Voice

ArcaneMoose•9m ago

Really cool but should limit # of people shown when there are too many. Currently it gets really laggy

winddude•1m ago

interesting. i'm appearing as a grey guy not the orange guy like your blog says