Show HN: A website for sharing the "Good, Bad, and Why"s of urban spaces
11 days ago (dedede.de)
Hello HN! We're a small team in Kyoto building a website called dédédé (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!
Technical 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=e...
2. eg: https://dedede-de.translate.goog/en/posts/hKOjEJV9mf?_x_tr_s...
Thanks so much, we'll look into it!
This is very cool, thanks for sharing it. I'll try to add some entries about Vancouver when I have time.
Thanks, would love to see posts from outside Japan!
OP 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
Love it, simple sentiment gathering. AI bots are going to love to crawl that one ;)
Oh cool, when I have free time I have many dozens in Japan that I could add.
Incidentally while exploring this site I discovered how much better the highlight and "translate" feature of iOS has gotten!
Thanks kappasan!
Adding automatic translation will make the site more accessible for a broader audience.
I agree that is very true. We'll see if there are free (or very cheap) solutions we could use.
feels 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
Huh I vaguely remember hearing that term somewhere... will read up on it, thanks!
This is the internet I miss.
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I guess you're referring to this one? 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".
Could 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".
If 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.
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Really? Assuming that one doesn't fixate obsessively on race for the sake of trying to hunt down perceived offense wherever possible, the poster should just be viewed as that of one human being laughing at the misfortune of another, without condescendingly assuming that because the weeping girl is Asian (not "oriental", since you're nailed so firmly to proper racial nuance), she must immediately be a victim and worthy of special consideration.
What a sick little mentality, that of viewing all human interaction through the lens of what ethnicity or race is shown and how that frames any context.