Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

https://taaalk.co/t/bitcoin-maxima-other-crypto-things

This started off with a question about a background image, and the answer had a lot of detail opening up many threads of possible conversations. This seems like something that happens pretty regularly, but also something that the format of linear text isn't well suited for. This is a problem for both essays and conversations.

There's a moment with a dozen possible interesting branches and the author or authors choose one direction to pursue. The other directions may be addressed later or may be forgotten and not picked up again.

I'm trying to imagine some branching structure, and how it might look in a UI that would "open" multiple threads and let readers and writers move through the text in their own direction.

Does that sound meaningful or possible to anyone else?

Major thing to avoid would be what happened to Quora where all the comments were gamed by people trying to resume pad.

"Thank you for your question, the history of privacy goes back millennia to Cleopatra's Royal guards... In summary, duckduckgo is a search engine focused on privacy"

> Taaalk (https://taaalk.co/) is less focused around debate, and more around exploring topics:

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23742773). From the site:

> The home of public conversations

> What's this Taaalk website about?

> It's a place where people have conversations

> And other people get to read them

I also made a similar side project during quarantine: https://messagink.com/

I thought there should be a place to archive, discover create interesting conversations or create fictional conversations (text stories) since most app around this space don't let you and are too expensive.

Credit to the extremely kind Antoine Grondin @ Github for helping sort it out! You can find him here: https://twitter.com/antoinegrondin?lang=en to say thank you

Also thank you to everyone who reached out to try to help me with my server issues :)

P.S. If a mod sees this and could edit the title that would be great.

For future reference (and I haven't been able to access the site yet, so this may or may not be relevant to Taaalk), if the site has a landing page, make it with static files, and put it behind a CDN or just use a free service like Netlify. Put the actual app behind a subdomain which you can then host however you want.

This way, people who visit can still check out what the service does and check it out later when not as many people are present on the server. This is a concept known as graceful degradation, trying to make a service as accessible as possible during most if not all conceivable situations.