Hey HN! I noticed that most discussions here get handwaved away, as crypto can't possibly be anything other than a emperors new clothes scam. So I built this for developers like me, that want to have sincere discussions and learn about crypto.
ComSpace is a new community-based website focused on imageboard forms. An older concept that was more popular in the early-mid 2000s for internet communities. It has (mostly) been superseded by 'sub-reddit' style forms and chat-groups, but I have a few novel ideas on how to re-invigorate the concept.
And yes, I know that there is another popular imageboard community website out there, but it is certainly not a friendly place with a healthy community. Nor has the software behind it improved meaningfully in the past decade. I feel that there is plenty of room for improvement.
Use cases are up to the users. They can choose what sort of content to make, and who they wish to share it with. I will add a report-button to deter the platform from being used for illegal activity.
All social-software is inherently destructive in the same way that it is inherently good. It really depends on the users. People and ideas viewed as 'bad' today, might be 'good' in the future, and vice-versa. MLK was once FBI #1 most wanted, now he is an America hero. Gay marriage was once a marxist conspiracy to subvert god-fearing capitalists, now it is legal in all 50 US states. Etc, etc.
Only those who can actually see the post can make comments. Later on, I might add some way for the originally author to 'moderate' their comments through a non-tracking cookie. However, many users probably have some cookie-deletion extensions installed (I know I do) that might make this difficult if they close the page. Still trying to think of a better solution.
There is a slider you can set that changes the duration. I
fixed it at 1-7-30 days. I probably need to make that feature more visible though. And I'll add in the option to let users set the kill duration.
I do hard-delete the posts once they expire, but I don't know how I could give users a sense of 'security' that it has gone into the void. Do you have any suggestions?
Right now, you can't find other people's posts. This is by design. It is up to you to decide who to share your posts with.
I considered adding an option to list your article on some type of feed or list, but then I would have to figure out how to moderate all the toxic posts that would inevitably pile-up.
Didn't know you could execute javascript emebedded in an image like that. I used some basic filtering rules, but I can clearly see I have some way to go. I won't sleep tonight until I get this fixed!
EDIT: The glitch in the matrix is no more. Thank you for pointing this out!
The original is always compressed into a new file, and the metadata is thrown away. I read about what happened to some other websites, and want to ensure users have maximum privacy!
I built this so you can easily create self-deleting blog posts, which can be easily shared in your whatsapp/messaging groups. This is useful when you don't want to directly post walls of text, and want others to be able to easily share what you posted to their other groups.