Comment by replwoacause
11 days ago
I made it specifically to bring back what was amazing about the old internet, and do it as authentically as possible. takes inspiration from old internet messageboards, usenet, bbs, and pubnix hosts. it has sealed mail, boards, an rss reader, built-in media player, custom profiles, a links directory, and quite a bit more.
it's just a little hobby art project for me but i've really appreciated talking to like minded people in a calm space.
I just registered, this is such a delight! I love the auto dithering for the profile pics & that you can select a file for your profile music. I'm building in an adjacent space (slow-web, your house on the internet), let's be friends. Hell, let's be BEST friends!!!
Haha that's awesome. Would love to hear more about your project. Share it on the boards if you want, I bet others would be interested too and you may be able to pick up a few new users! Hit me up anyway, always happen to swap notes, thanks for stopping by to check it out :]
This is wonderful. I've often wondered about small, human-only groups forming in tighter social circles, which can be hard to find.
Thank you! That's the idea, and even though its been a slow burn, the conversations have been interesting and rewarding. One of the funniest proof of concept so far was, someone asked how to route a guitar body to fit a new bridge on a network with maybe a dozen active people at the time. Within like a day, a total stranger with an actual woodshop and eight spare guitars showed up with real technical advice and offered him a discount on one of the guitars. Maybe it was a fluke, but it really struck me, and there have been a number of small interactions since that one that really remind me why I loved the early web so much.
This looks great, I'll join as soon as I'm on my personal laptop
Thanks! Hope to see you there when you get a chance. It works on mobile too, but it was made for the desktop first :)
Joined. I love the aesthetic and looks like there are active users. Very promising.
Awesome, looking forward to seeing you on the boards. Yeah, we have a decent little group of active posters and we've been adding to that number slowly but consistently since I put it online a few weeks ago.
It's been fun and I've learned starting a community is a lot harder than it looks. Maybe I'll write a post on what I've learned sometime. TLDR and probably no surprise to most: making the software is the easy part.
How are you handling content moderation?
I have a robust set of moderation tools built into the network and I check it several times per day. There is nothing automated setup yet because I don't need it. We have just under 200 members at the moment so this is working well. If the growth of the network ever outstrips my ability to moderate it effectively then I'll look at introducing new methods. So far, I've only had to delete 1 wall post and 1 thread, so it's very manageable.