I still miss shoutboxes.
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I still miss shoutboxes. Your friends would come to your site, because theyre really the only ones that went there, and could just leave you a little message. They were kind of like guestbooks, but meant to be more conversational. Little special places on the web for yourself and your friends was a neat time.
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I'm not super sure that would work anymore what with spam and all (even my site which is usually in the single thousands of page views a day would probably get a fair bit of spam). But it was part of this time I really romanticize now where you would specifically visit your online friends in their own little space and see what they were up to. It felt much more personal than going to their social media profile because they literally MADE the space you're visiting.
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This was sort of the thing I was hoping for when all the no-code things popped up. But somewhere amongst all of that, we took away the creative parts. Yes you can deploy a site with no code, but it's pre-canned templates and you don't learn how to customize them. Or they are AI generated and just a shit-show. The "magic" which was basic HTML, CSS and maybe a little scripting is all tucked away now as if it should be hands-off.
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Also, sorry, but if you are nearly 40 like I am or 40+ you are obliged to make one of these posts every now and then.
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I wonder if you could do like, a fediverse shoutbox of some sort. Or, just like, replies to a Mastodon post (like people use via webmentions for showing post "comments"). That could probably help with spam somewhat.
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@hbuchel you absolutely can - this is how the comments on Zarf's blog work https://blog.zarfhome.com/comments
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@ireneista Yeah, that's basically it! I guess you wouldn't need the web mentions part. Just a specific post that is the "shoutbox post" and then you'd get all the replies to that specific post? hmmmmmmm
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@hbuchel @ireneista you could even pin it on your profile if you like
