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I'm working on that!

You and a lot of people. For some reason I've been postponing changing the icon to a ZZ or some sort of toggle... But I also want to I plement a day/night mode for the widget. So I've been postponing the first to do both together.

Anyway, the widget does work with dark mode. But then you need to change the site to dark mode.

Yeah, some of those are good ideas. I'll implement them. Thanks for the contribution! (Instead of just say it won't work, heheheh)

That "standard phrases and emoticons" would break the whole idea.

But I guarantee the most of the times, the TownSquare in my site is much calmar and friendlier. People having actually interesting conversations. What you saw was a reflection of the page going FrontPage on HN

Ohhh, I would love to hear a similar story like that for a couple that met on TownSquare!!!

That's what o meant. Same persona in Townsquares across various sites. You would recognise me on my site, on your site and John's site.

Well, as I said before. This is usually much calmer. Try coming back some time later, after the Hn spike.

or explore other people's websites that are using Townsquare. Check them out here https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/map

Thaaanks! That's the idea! Fun and meet random people.

The experience is quite different from HN spike....but usually is calmer and friendlier.

I'll check what I need to do to make it happen!!! If you stream and want to use it, please reach out! you can find my email on my site!

I still hope for humanity :) I believe in it! We just neeed to ignore the idiot ones that just want to draw attention to them selves.

Anyway...Right now it's just crowded because of the Hn post. But usually it's much calmer, friendlier and interesting. I've already had a lot of interesting conversation there :)

I swear I have nothing to do with it... :sweat Specially because they get lot's of attention specially when I can't be on the computer and I lose all the fun!

Noo...I never played it and didn't know about it! I'll check it out.

sorry! Wrong Link

It's https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/

That is actualy giving some interesting ideas. I'm now thinking about permanent identities across websites, as well as some "rooms" where you can enter to have a chat...

I'll need to think this through. I don;t want to overcomplicate the project...Part of charm is the simplicity.

Ohhh...that's an interesting idea!!! I'll put that on the roadmap, thanks!!!

Much more features are coming! Someone pushed a PR for a futball, and I've added cats and custom hats.

I've just finished implementing a telegram plugin to it, so you can get notifications when people are chatting there. :) Reach out if you wanna know more.

thaaanks :)

This is already sort of implemented. But moderation is a very very difficult problem to be solved and there are different philosophies for it...

thanks for that message! I made this for the community and this type of response makes me super happy!

You are welcome! My hope was that people had fun and had interesting conversation.

The second part only happens after the HN spike...ehhehe

A permanent persona for a user across visits. Could even be across website visits, if they all use townsquare.

The issue is that my site right now is too crowded giving this post reached a good position on HN.

On regular days, this are much calmer. You can check other sites using the Townsquare on https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/ (fixed link). Check out the map.

I'm actually thinking about implementing some sort of "permanence" for some people, specially for recurring visitors of a given site. But that's still an early thought.

I'm the site author and creator of TownSquare. The only moment it got a bit abused it was during the first HN spike. But before and after that, everything was friendly.

It has length and height, so it's 2D... Heheh

But I get your point.

I'm glad to hear it! It makes me happy to see that other people are also having a good time in there. That was the goal!

Good! The idea was to give a lovely calm atmosphere. I also allow site owners to customize the scene as they want.

There is actually a limit, but I think it was too high. Currently the limit is for the deployment, but your comment gave me the idea that I should give this option to the site owner.

The spamming and trolling was just an issue during the HN traffic spike. Now things are much calmer and more interesting. Additionally, I'm also adding more moderation and counter-bot mechanism.