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Could you give more information? It's pretty empty and I don't even know what it's supposed to do.

So the screen you see upon loading at the tags associated with the most recent posts that people have made. If you create a post you self-tag it using the #tag method. Choose a tag to explore all posts under that category. Posts without any #tag in them get assigned noTag

after initially being totally bemused - 'what is this?','how do i get it to do something'? 'what am i supposed to click?'

.. i returned here, read this comment and then after about 3-4 clicks I finally got it to actually deliver what i am after, which is actually seeing some content.

if this is about sharing / showing people some content - show people some content ! right from the beginning! then let them filter or whatever to dig in deeper and start posting their own etc

good point, it seems like you and akkartik both got it after spending a minute digging around. I'll update it to have some content open on page load

The idea was to try to create something that lives in the space between twitter and 4chan. You have the basic functionality of an image board, but it is much more free form and lends itself to short form messages

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