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Hahaha, I built something just like this site once, just to see what would happen.

Wouldn't this be fun? No auth, no rules, no permanent database, just plain text that hangs out for a while (though people could reply to it - ours was more like a forum). The ones with replies jump to the top, everything else slowly falls off into the abyss where it can never be found again.

Literally had people posting ASCII-rendered child pornography within 24 hours

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Apart from the last line, that site design sounds like a lot of fun. I'm guessing you went "okay this isn't going to work" and killed it - or is it still quietly buried somewhere?

Also, did you keep the code? Might be a fun startpoint for others to springboard off of.

> Apart from the last line, that site design sounds like a lot of fun

"Other than that, how did you enjoy the play, Mrs. Lincoln?" :)

Nah the code is gone. Wrote it in <24 hours, and it wasn't really worth keeping.

Hehe. Gotcha. Thanks for the reply!

So, like 4chan but without images?

ya pretty much

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