Elle's Homepage(ellesho.me)
78 pointsby martialg9 months ago19 comments
  • sundarurfriend9 months ago
    There seems to be a resurgence of the little old Web of yore, with webrings and website banner icons here, and a lot of young people making videos about neocities and other simple web things. Gives me hope for the Internet - maybe the real Web 3 was a conscious step back into Web 1.0 all along, with a bit more visual nicety to it. The tech stack and capabilities of the sites may be wildly different now, but in some way this captures the essence of the feel of the old Web to me.
    • BriggyDwiggs429 months ago
      I don’t want to be a downer but i just dont think the vast majority of the population is interested.

      Edit: I know everyone is having lot of fun with the short replies, but I’m not saying these sites are bad because most won’t use them. I’m saying that this movement cannot constitute a transition into a new internet with only a tiny minority of the userbase ever being involved. It’s fine to do it anyway, but it won’t fix the problems with the current one or fully replace it, and I wish that it would. I was only responding to the parent comment that this resurgence may represent a step back into web 1.0.

      • Evidlo9 months ago
        The vast majority wasn't interested before either. They just weren't as online.
      • natebc9 months ago
        To be fair, they weren't back in the Web 1.0 days we all pine for either.
      • gspencley9 months ago
        In order for anyone to be interested in something, you first need prospective "somethings" to exist. It's an old saying that 90% of everything produced is garbage. This applies to 90% of what is on social media, 90% of youtube videos, 90% of books and movies ... so 90% of the small web will certainly not be of any interest to most people. But there is a potential 10% that could help to renew interest in this style of website. We'll never know if it's never created.

        And on a personal level ... I don't even care. I just like that people do things that they like. If people are building these websites for themselves and for no other reason than their own personal enjoyment, that's good enough for me.

        • BriggyDwiggs429 months ago
          The parent comment was talking about us consciously stepping back into web 1.0. I want that to happen, but I’m saying the majority won’t do that. It’s gonna look like isolated, small groups of people who already have some link to each other making these sites-a more creative discord server. I like that, but I’d personally love to see change that impacts on a wider scale, that actually changes people’s default.
        • akeck9 months ago
          And that 90% is different for different people in my experience.
      • throw_pm239 months ago
        Avoiding what the vast majority is interested in has always been a decent strategy.
        • BriggyDwiggs429 months ago
          Wanting better for others is a basic human instinct, I think.
          • RankingMember9 months ago
            I thought so too until more recently when the people who don't think this way seem to have given a megaphone by the internet
          • Gormo9 months ago
            It turns out that different people have wildly varying notions of what's better.
      • 1vuio0pswjnm79 months ago
        "I don't want to be a downer but I just don't think the vast majority of the population is interested."

        I guess that's mean no advertising because the audience is to small. What a downer.

      • ghusto9 months ago
        If the vast majority aren’t interested, that’s a sign of success. Remember, it’s when they came that everything went to shit.
      • hluska9 months ago
        Who cares? The vast majority of the population doesn’t care about 90% of the jobs represented here.
      • User239 months ago
        That’s fine. The vast majority of the population wasn’t interested in the Internet in the early ‘90s and that was fine too. Better in many ways. The signal to noise ratio was many orders of magnitude higher, and the average intelligence of users was observably higher too.

        I have no interest whatsoever in the overwhelming majority of current things that consume the attention of the vast mediocrity that you call the vast majority. Their disinterest is a feature and opens up the possibility for lesser known and more interesting content.

      • globular-toast9 months ago
        They never were.
  • gspencley9 months ago
    All I want to know is who tf is Phil Fish and what are his campaign promises?

    (if the moment passes, when I checked out the website multiple people had typed messages along the lines of "vote for phil fish")

    • dlbucci9 months ago
      He's the game dev who made Fez, then famously decided to cancel Fez 2 after having some sort of break down (maybe over online abuse?). Not sure why we're voting for him though...
    • autoexec9 months ago
      I thought I'd never heard of him before today, but it turns out he was in a netflix movie about indie games I saw once.

      https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1dolrr/e...

      Reddit also says gamergate was upset because people who'd financially invested in his game company and/or were personal friends with him were also judges for the Independent Games Festival and he got an award from that. No idea if that's actually true though

    • justin_oaks9 months ago
      When I showed up, someone was writing "Cthulhu 2024!" I think we know what Cthulhu's campaign promises are.
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  • runjake9 months ago
    Super neat and fun. A good experiment of how people behave when they think they're anonymous.

    Lots of NSFW, political, and other offensive text floating around the site. So if you're easily offended, perhaps skip it.

    • NoxiousPluK9 months ago
      It was very very wholesome when I visited just now :)
    • dfilppi9 months ago
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  • Bjorkbat9 months ago
    Kind of thrown off by the Phil Fish comments.

    Like, are we talking about the guy who made Fez? That Phil Fish? Is it 2012?

    • darknavi9 months ago
      I was more thrown off by "WHO LICKS ASS ON THE FIRST DATE???".

      But yeah, Phil Fish was part of a decent amount of drama post-Fez.

  • nusl9 months ago
    I like the strange little chat function. It's quite cute and something I haven't seen before.
    • miloignis9 months ago
      Participating in a spontaneous reply-chain with others without coordination was a neat moment for me!
    • dobladov9 months ago
      Figma, has the same functionality.
  • RankingMember9 months ago
    Well that was fun for awhile until inevitably some anonymous coward started spamming racist nonsense
  • Slump9 months ago
    Very cute and charming, random offensive content from anonymous users not withstanding. I was pleasantly surprised that zooming with the browser works relatively well to help make things a bit clearer and easier to rid. I had to squint pretty hard by default.
  • datadrivenangel9 months ago
    This is wonderfully fun. Little moments of connection with people we'll never see again.
  • wafflez9 months ago
    Giving me strong The Palace chat vibes, didn't realize how much I missed that.
  • malet9 months ago
    Can’t type anything on iOS :(
  • shortrounddev29 months ago
    Very cool, but should be bigger on desktop, it's hard to read
    • brianzelip9 months ago
      There's an expand button on the browser screen when you click on the laptop! So dope.
  • jonbrowne29 months ago
    An ultimate peak into true humanity. Most are polite. Others just want to get a reaction to prove they can make people feel SOMETHING.

    Really neat idea.

  • skhunted9 months ago
    Went to the site and saw “Nigger” floating around. Anonymity emboldens people. I guess this is why moderation is always needed.
  • TremendousJudge9 months ago
    this is great, well done to the author
  • greenavocado9 months ago
    Asymptotically approaching vr chat
  • oatsandsugar9 months ago
    This is so charming
  • nanna9 months ago
    Cute and impressive but of course there's someone currently posting blatantly racist crap on it.
    • Rychard9 months ago
      If you don't acknowledge them, they'll get bored and move on. They're only looking for attention, so your best weapon is to not give it to them.

      Definitely agree about it being cute/impressive. There's lots of clickables that further showcase things. Don't forget to explore!

    • znpy9 months ago
      i've learned to ignore that kind of things.

      giving such people attention and calling that out often only gives them "positive feedback".

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  • EarlKing9 months ago
    OH GOD, MY EYES.

    While I'm sure this was fun to make, it's a nightmare to use.

    • tpoacher9 months ago
      OH GOD, MY EYES!!! [starry eyed emoji]

      While I'm sure this was a nightmare to make, it's fun to use! \o/