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A friend of mine is creating this app in NodeJS. You are encouraged to find bugs or give feature requests.

The github is: https://github.com/OutThisLife/horcrux

The signal to noise ratio is exceedingly low on the website. It looks like some people are really, really easily entertained. Does he plan to add the ability to block spammers and such?

Creator here. Yes, it's random, but that's - hopefully - going to be a part of the beauty in the future.

I don't want to moderate it at all. Ever.

I don't know if anyone is going to see a bunch of random useless/offensive/spam posts as 'beauty'. It appears to only store the last 50 or whatever posts, so it's trivial for a spammer to just flood the last 'legitimate' post off the bottom of the page. Without moderation or posting limits, I can't see anyone but spammers making use of this site, frankly.

I think we'll see in time. It's too early to tell what it'll become - but my method is to be hands-off, regardless, and see what becomes of it.

Frankly I think the last thing the world needs is another one of these, which is why I never hosted the one I wrote.

Increasingly I think the real need is in self-curated media.

Creator here. Could you explain by "another one of these"? Is it the anonymity that you don't like?

If so, I'd have to completely disagree. I think we need more anonymity on the internet, not less.

I think what jarcane was saying was another site like, yikyak. I agree that there needs to be more anonymity on the internet and everywhere in general but I don't think its needed for sites like this. It is a cool site and everything, but I do not think it adds value or substance.

Oh, yeah. It definitely isn't meant to add value.

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