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I feel like I’m noticing lazier and lazier cookie notifications, but surely this one is the laziest! If you don’t accept cookies, disable cookies and reload the page? Surely this is not an acceptable way of obtaining user consent under the Privacy Directive. If you’re going to do this, why even bother with the prompt? Is it satire?

Would someone who knows more about the Privacy Directive tell me if I’m wrong here?

IANAL, but you are not wrong.

The only non-functional cookies are from google.com. If they got rid of the captcha, no cookies, no warning nescesarry. This is either just lazy or a dick move.

Better yet, able to check what this site is about.

Somehow the page stuck at "I'n not a robot" recaptcha thingie.

No action beyond that -> whatever site did or showed, it did NOT do or show in my case. And therefore wasted effort.

Just remove annoying captcha shit, plz...

This is really cool, I love the retro design.

If the devs are here, what does the tech stack look like?

What's the strategy for conflict resolution, i.e. two people edit the same area at the some time? Is that resolved on the server or on the client?

Edit: to somewhat answer my own question, it seems to be open source, client and server here: https://github.com/OurSources

Server is JS running on Node, need to dig deeper...

I'm a moderator on the site and I've worked a bit on the client and know the admins/developers. Currently the client you see on that github (https://github.com/OurSources/owop-client) is mostly up to date, but the current server is private. The server is written in C++ and uses synchronous disk operations, which makes it quite slow when lots of people are online like right now. A rewritten and improved version of the site should come out by the end of the year.

The server runs in a single thread, so it's not really possible for two websocket messages to come in at the same time. One edit will come before the other, and the later edit is the one that everyone will see.

It would be interesting to see some stats on what you guys are see performance wise, how much storage the project takes up, and what framework you are using. Honestly you guys have a lot of head room for speed improvements.

Btw the server implementation I could find was archived?

May I ask: how do you moderate this giant stuff ? Manually, with machine, from reports ?

Congrats for the work and wish the best for v2 !

another mod of the site here, we mostly look at the spawn area ourselves and use reports for other stuff automated moderation is in the works! currently only chat is automoded but im planning on doing the canvas in the near future

Love the homage to yourworldoftext.com, which remains one of the net's largely forgotten gems

an even bigger homage is on our sister site, ourworldoftext.com

I know that Cygnus, but still let me tell you something. OWOT knows who you are.

Why does that sound like a weird threat?

Some interesting worlds

https://ourworldofpixels.com/countrysim

https://ourworldofpixels.com/planetsim

https://ourworldofpixels.com/jpdld

So many cute things on there :3! I recognize so many more of the symbology than with this year's Reddit place, makes me feel old? Or just, not understanding of mainstream as much anymore

I noped out after having to solve a captcha for just seeing what the page was about.

Shallow complaint, but same. At least tell me why I want to donate my time training the AI before demanding I do so.

I don't think it is shallow. Forcing people to go through Google's digital forced-labor-camps of solving stupid classification tasks just to view a website is something that should be frowned upon.

Instant captcha? No thanks

It's to stop bots, but I'm sure there's plenty of those around.

spent 2 minutes on captcha. giving up. fts

There ought to be shortcuts to switch between the tools. I'm trying to fix vandalized artwork so it'd be good to rapidly switch between color picker and cursor tool.

One other point, it's not obvious that the cursor tool is a painting tool. I thought it was fill.

there is such a thing for the main 3 tools, press p to use the color picker, o for the cursor, m for the move tool

I shared this devs personal site yesterday. He has some cook work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36842516

Does he use lots of pot?

Cookies, ok. Captcha, ok. Solve the puzzle... Peace.

There is a bug with the captcha box: I solve it then I hear the "welcome sound" but the captcha popup never closes. I use Opera on Android.

Same on android firefox, but you can close it by clicking outside of the modal

tried to draw something, it kept disappearing and then I lost connection with the server

Unable to zoom out on android

Got captcha'd and bailed. I have no patience for these things anymore and they increasingly don't think I'm human.

Web attestation would remove the need for captchas (reference to the web attestation threads)

The sorts of people getting captchas are the sorts that would actively avoid "web attestation." It's more likely that they'd simply be prevented from using the site entirely.

What is it about a person that makes them the sort that would get a captcha?

I get them, and I'd like to change my ways.

Are you sure it would? How hard would it be for spammers to buy a Windows machine and run Chrome?

For me the captcha was just a checkbox. I assumed that they do need it. There is lots of bot activity on https://ourworldoftext.com

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> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

The devs will certainly have a reason for having a captcha, I suspect it keeps the actual game fun rather than being overrun with bots.

Probably not the most optimal solution, but how about spinning up a small "demo" server without captcha, that is reset as often as possible?

People have ran clones of the site with no captcha and effectively no rate limit, they go pretty much how you'd expect: some people play normally, some people bot massively. Part of the reason this captcha exists on OWOP is because bots not only mess up art and other creations, but also lag the server with heavy usage.

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