I've been posting some idiosyncratic ideas here to seed the website, but you don't need to mimic the vibe or the format or anything. Please use the tree format however you want. Post whole outlines, single sentences, snippets of poetry.
I also made this root post so that people can discuss things about the site itself. You can report bugs here, leave impressions, think out loud about what changes you want that would produce social/creative dynamics you like.
This is cool?
Woo
This is cool! But it'd be good if we didn't have an edit limit, I need several attempts to get all the formatting right.
Here I am in a room full of people possibly on this site! But I have no way to tell which themes are popular, which stories have any riffs, what's being actively worked on, how long any posts or threads are, or any other cues whatsoever of where there's activity to join in on or what's worth reading.
Tooltips on icons, I have no idea what various mysterious icons do and am afraid to click to find out.
If I scroll left when there's no more threads at left, or try to scroll left while my mouse is in the wrong placae, my computer helpfully decides I must've meant to go back to the previous page. I then lose my place in the tree structure. Possible approach, save where people are in the tree structure and re-display that branch on their next visit.
When I post a next riff, I also lose my place in the tree structure, and am back to where I started instead of an insertion point for the riff I just posted.
Trying to edit post 51 gets me a 404 when I click the edit button, which is why the "placae" typo isn't fixed.
Trying to hit Ctrl-C to copy the word "placae" brings up the Comments dialogue, I lose the text selection, and it doesn't get copied.
Weirdly I am no longer losing my place in the tree structure after posting my next riff.
When I try to scroll right through the tree-structure, it takes a few seconds for any riffs to appear below the top riff, if they exist. This means I can't quickly swipe through to see where the activity is, because I would have to pause after each riff to see if anything appears below it.
I'd want the notifications to include a link to the post they're referring to, now they simply say that a post #50 has activity, and I have no idea what it means.
I like the horizontal scrolling for viewing branches. The visibility could be better, though - currently the previous/next branch only shows the root, which misleads me on how deep they go
This is 81k's sample post to see how the icons look.