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I'm building https://www.taaalk.co/, it's a social network for conversations.

The site went down a few months ago, but now it's back up. The first new Taaalk I'm having is with another engineer, and we're trying to publicly solve a technical chanllenge - how to repopulate the Taaalk database from archive.org download.

https://www.taaalk.co/t/repopulating-the-taaalk-database-fro...

I love Taaalk so much. I love all the little design features. I love tinkering with it. I love the conversations I have had with people on it; you can check them out on archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20210316214650/https://taaalk.co....

I don't mind if it fails but I do have high hopes for it!

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This is really cool! Love the minimal design. Also I'm a fan of this as a form of article / content generation. Where an article is created by a team, as a collaborative effort, organized and started by an editor of some sort.

Think of how many interesting conversations happen in walled gardens like slack, telegram, discord. Very thoughtful and in-depth sharing from users that would most likely be valuable for others to read. And valuable for these people themselves to re-read in the future at a specific easily accessible / shareable url.

The reason these people share in the walled gardens is because it's a conversational / social atmosphere, not necessarily because it's a private discord server (IMO). And it's just that the walled gardens have become the popular place for discussing things. So it's more natural. This is to say I don't think people would be against having their conversations being in public, searchable, like taaalk is trying to do. I think a lot of people would prefer it, professional types. People who use these communities to learn and develop. Rather than the anonymous s*#@ posters who don't really leave a trail or anything valuable either.

Thank you so much for the kind words. I couldn't agree more.

I really think some of the best features happen when you start a conversation - so if you are inclined, please try: https://taaalk.co/start-conversation

Additionally, is it clear from the UI that if you follow a Taaalk you will get email updates for every added conversation "blob"?

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