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I actually find that design by programmers is usually much more elegant and user friendly than design by designers.

Thanks for the feedback. This is something I've been thinking about a bit since launching it. I don't think SF necessarily does anything new or hooks users and I'm okay with that. I actually intended the site be more focused around the lists, but people really seem to enjoy logging their day-to-day lives. Personally, I like reading these automatic thoughts from strangers. Many people talk about quarantine routines, life goals, and ongoing projects. It's cool to see all this overlap in how people are thinking right now. So again, nothing new here, just a slightly different approach to a community website.

I totally understand your hesitance on registering an account. There are so many ways of blogging/journaling on the web already. I actually think it's a good site to browse without ever needing an account. I'm looking at added RSS soon so you won't even need to really visit and can use something like Fraidycat to check in.

Also, SF was mentioned on Kicks Condor recently [1]. I like how they talked about the site... "but it hadn’t even occurred to me to make a social network that is just a directory". I hadn't really thought of SF as just a directory either, but I like the idea that its only purpose is to be a directory of people doing DIY stuff on the web.

[1] https://www.kickscondor.com/special.fish/

Thanks for reporting. Should be fixed now.

It's more of a metaphor for how to think about/approach the site. Logs and lists are stored in a centralized db so nothing new happening behind the scenes. Supporters are able to download their content as txt files, so you could use it as an online version of TextEdit.

Cached version of the site is up again. Working on clearing up auth issues now. Stay tuned...

Update: Okay we are back! Implementing more caching but should be working for now.

Hey there, sorry that the site is down! Looking at getting things up and running asap. Special Fish is a small community website so it wasn't built to scale lol. For now, as mentioned by @bertman, you can browse an archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20200420171359/https://special.f... Thanks Wayback Machine!

Hey there, sorry about the trouble. I've pushed a fix. Special characters should now be working in the reset flow now. If you come across any other bugs feel free to email mail@special.fish. Thanks!

ty should be fixed

inspired by those old image maps. ny

stairwell level coming soon

you could also just write html

https://html.energy

I use https://are.na for this. Several private channels and have the FF extension installed so that I can add to them while I browse.

HTML... http://html.energy

Oh good idea. Let me know if you come across any good recipes. All I know is sliced pears.

Thanks for asking. I made this after making the tweet: https://twitter.com/elliottsphone/status/1205912688779501571... recently. I thought it would be interesting to make it a reality and learn how to use the stripe / sendgrid api.

Not sure if this answers your question but you can send pears to other using their email. Recipients will receive your purchased “idea of a pear” as an emoji.

hmmm interesting... was this site based on this post from '17? https://artur.co/blog/07-30-17-preschooler-secure-password-t...

That’s cool. I was there two days ago. Really amazing to see it in person just for the sense of scale. It feels like it was made for just one or two people to hold.

Wow, I was thinking along the same lines. I thought it could be a teaching tool. Calendar or some sort of template also seems plausible.

For those interested in learning more about the disc, I would recommend The Phaistos Disk: An Account of its Unsolved Mystery by Thomas Balistier. It does a good job of explaining the various explanations of the disc and it’s history.

It’s slightly sad that the internet is turning into a bunch of sites that are all based on the same templates. Don’t we need more website builders that are open and creative by design? I understand not everyone has the time to learn how to write html but we should at least be building tools to make websites more interesting and distinct.

This is very cool. Thanks for sharing. Reminds me a little of this site: http://vacantstartup.brycewilner.com/

Wow, that sounds like a cool idea. You should build it!

Thanks! Yes it does. Let me know if you have any ideas : )

I would completely agree. It is one of my favorite features. I decided to leave Wikipedia out of this post, but I think they've done an amazing job creating tools to explore the vastness of the site.

It's true, I don't know if I'd necessarily recommend a random content selector for Airbnb as an example. That said it could actually be interesting to see a selection of random places to visit around the world. Reminds me a bit of closing your eyes, opening an Atlas to a random page, and putting a finger down on a place. I understand your point though that there are times when random doesn't cut it or becomes vague. I also wonder if there are other simple ways we could improve explore pages beyond the go-to recommendations engine or random selector.

Why? It’s so easy to make a Jekyll site / theme from scratch.

Sure there’s Google or Facebook residency, etc but they are specifically looking for artists that are using technology in their art or at least aren't questioning the companies / private interests that are funding them. There’s so many artists that don’t use computers to make their work. I mean a program that supports all artists. I also don’t think government programs like the WPA were a waste.

I'd agree that UBI and healthcare could be one part of this. It's incredible that these aren't a given at this point.

I guess I just feel like Drip and Patreon are creating a commodity where there shouldn't be one. Funding an artist only when they have an audience that has the means to pay them monthly is a sure way of making some bad art.

I feel like these platforms are catering to a very particular kind of artist, an artist who has an audience that is willing to pay for content and not just consume it. How do you make people pay for something they never paid for in the past?

Most interesting works of art are not acknowledged monetarily at least initially. Money means making compromises and artists really don’t like making those. I suppose the Drip or Patreon artist is something YouTube helped create. An artist created by the audience for the audience. I just wonder how this all fits into the current needs of artists that are not musicians or YouTube stars.

Artists primarily need funding and space. They need a free studio to work in and work relief so that they have time to focus on their art. In Europe this often happens through government backed grants. Of course in the US there’s a lack of funded for artists. What if these companies used their position and money to lobby for arts funding from the government? Obviously this would be hard in the current administration but maybe this could also be done privately. Imagine if the government or a bunch of tech companies were paying artists a living wage to create public works or art, teach in schools, and design our cities.

This all sounds pretty exciting. I’ve been using dat/beaker and I love how easy it is to make a site right in the browser. It made me realize how many barriers there are on http to just build a personal website and host it for free.

This update to beaker makes sense to me as it was pretty hard to discover new sites on the network though I’d love to see dat become a bit more stable. I’d often make a site and a friend wouldn’t be able to connect to it. I think if these issues could be resolved is some way the whole network would really take off.

I would have named this article, “Free Solo Market Cap”.

Also disappointing read. What about comparing climbers to day traders or investors that take economic risks that often have very real consequences in other people’s lives.