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Posted by cauenapier 1 day ago

Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites(townsquare.cauenapier.com)
https://cauenapier.com/blog/townsquare_release/

https://cauenapier.com/blog/townsquare/

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patcon 11 hours ago|
I've been playing with presence too...! I def am thinking about using it more for real-time motion communication (which is largely missing from web) rather than text (which is very overrepresented, and where most moderation comes in).

I was toying with the idea of making a little crowd representation sticky at the bottom, like watching a screen together :)

Regardless, I love concepts like this. Thanks!

ameon 9 hours ago||
this is a very clever concept. I'll keep it in mind for the future - when my app site has persistent amount of visitors. Are there some rules/settings for stop words to prevent some types of abuse? Or is it planned?
cauenapier 2 hours ago|
Thanks!! :D Yes there is already rules/settings to stop words and ban people. I'm also improving overall moderation and banning mechanisms.
Procrastes 9 hours ago||
This is great! Thank you for sharing it. Fun to use and already customizable.
zhxiaoliang 11 hours ago||
I enjoyed the design.
cauenapier 2 hours ago|
Thaaanks :D
vitorbaptistaa 13 hours ago||
This is amazing! Congratulations on the launch. Repository link somewhere?
SpyCoder77 12 hours ago||
In the footer. https://github.com/cauenapier/TownSquare
ArcaneMoose 10 hours ago||
Really cool but should limit # of people shown when there are too many. Currently it gets really laggy
winddude 10 hours ago||
interesting. i'm appearing as a grey guy not the orange guy like your blog says
cauenapier 2 hours ago|
You can change your color by clicking in the pencil icon.
StahlGuo 3 hours ago||
what a cute project
msafi04 5 hours ago||
I like the idea! congrats!
cauenapier 2 hours ago|
Thaaanks :)
amatecha 11 hours ago|
Oh what the heck? That's super cool! Awesome idea. Possible future enhancement: some basic day/night (or even weather?) design elements that match the timezone of the person whose site it is? Still, doesn't even need it, it's really cool as-is!

I could see it being used as some avenue for saying toxic stuff, so I'm suddenly feeling like the only allowed actions should be ones that can never be harmful (like text interactions are just choosing from a pre-set list)..

cauenapier 2 hours ago||
Thaaanks! I've thought about weather , but I loved the idea for day/night! I'll definately implement that soon!

It already has block/ban and block word list, but unfortunatelly I haven't added them in the settings for the landing page before HN made it front page.. Opsy

vitorbaptistaa 9 hours ago||
Nintendo does this on Mario Kart, just allowing text from a pre-set list. It's very limited, but works.
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