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Oops. Looks like api/get-posts is responding with a 503. Scaling problems?

It's a good site though. I do hope that, somehow, it manages to thrive despite the spam and abuse. I think everybody could use a space to vent sometimes - even typing out one's problems can help clarify them and turn them from a vague oppressive feeling into something slightly more manageable.

Posted 3 times previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19360276

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19320253

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19262255

The max-width on desktop browser should be made wider. it looks really odd as a thin strip of text on a 1000px+ window.

other than that - good job.

I've seen a lot of these sites over the years, at least subtle variations on the same theme anyway. Is this one designed as just a temporary experiment too?

I noticed the text said you needed to press CTRL and ENTER to submit, does it work on mobile at all? I resized the browser and it still showed the same text.

People do seem to be coming back and writing/reading. The original idea was just to create somewhere for people to write about how they were feeling on that day.

The Ctrl + Enter should be desktop only. If you are on your mobile and reach the character limit then a post button should pop up.

That makes sense now that you’ve explained it. FYI though I went to it on mobile, wrote a few words and didn’t know about the character limit, got confused about how to post and left :/

Ah shoot, thanks for the heads up. Will fix that now.

You might want to implement a maximum post length. Right now there's a post which is just hundreds of pages of the alphabet repeated over and over.

Some people see a cool thing and just want to destroy it :(

Sorted :) thanks.

I can't really post what I wrote. The "Ctrl and Enter" info is easy to miss, as it's in the 2nd line of the hint, and it disappears once you enter the first character. No other clues are left on the screen from then on. This isn't great UX. And it doesn't work anyway: it doesn't seem to do a thing on neither Firefox nor Chrome. (I'm on Windows 10).

Other than that, I don't want to sound mean, but I fail to see much point of the whole "digital toilet wall" thing.

How does the flagging feature work? I can flag a few posts, but after that I just get 'limit reached'. I get that you need to prevent abuse, but there's no feedback on when that limit is lifted, or whether I can avoid triggering it, etc.

Something as simple as a first-time dialog saying 'you get three flags per day - still want to use this one?' would be handy.

Yeah, good thinking. I struggled a little with the limits because nobody has an "account". Clearer dialogue is needed, agreed. Perhaps a (2) countdown? It resets at the end of each day.

What measures do you have in place to help the person who posts they're about to commit suicide?

I mean this is tricky right? Is it possible to run a site like this where people share emotions (feelings) and be hands off? Or is there some moral obligation to help someone who is in desperate need of help because you are encouraging them to share?

They have a "Flag" feature, so I'm assuming that that they could do something. They're not saying that they don't log your IP address and what-not, so they can - at the very least - action on it (which probably comes down to contacting local authorities) but it does seem to need addressing in like a Terms of Use or some other such delivery mechanism.

As someone who frequently (BUT NOT TODAY!!) experiences suicidal ideation, the inability to vent anywhere on the internet without having SWAT called on me by people who think they're helping is one of the most frustrating things around.

Sometimes in the same boat. Why not self host a blog?

You may also want to look for duplicate posts, and maybe rate limit. The front page currently looks like this:

Person above is gay af

the person above is ultra gay

Person above is gay af

the person above is ultra gay

Person above is gay af

the person above is ultra gay

Person above is gay af

the person above is ultra gay

[An actual post!]

also you can double post here.

And more recently...

"Sharing this to /g/ was a mistake"

...which explains a lot!

(For the uninitiated like myself, /g/ is 4chan's Technology board.)

I feel like I have learnt a lot about the internet today...

Had to limit the number of posts. This took off a little more than I thought that it would. Back now :)

Another "anonymous posts" site that I saw a few years back had a feature I liked, where even though posts didn't have names attached, they did have a hash so you could follow a user's posts.

I can post but I can't figure out how to read. After posting I'm taken back to the home page.

I tried to go to sincere.chat/read but I got a silly 404. :)

Does my workaround[0] work for you?

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19367789

It does not.

Seems to be a bug where after you post, you can't see any posts until you Ctrl+Refresh (Firefox on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS).

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz indeed.

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