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by mlLK 5863 days ago
I've been thinking about implementing something similar except with the opposite sort of sentiment that this project, application, program was poorly optimized, bug-ridden, and could use some improvement.

Easiest way I can describe is take all that crap on all those code snippet sites out there + all the basic features from DCVS + some experienced developers/programmers with some time to kill + somebody that knows what they've written is crap yet functional and is looking for some suggestions.

I got the idea from the simple fact that there are still plenty of people out there writing sub-par code who could never dream of pushing something serious they've written to github or bitbucket. The goal I had in mind was to a create sort of preliminary sandbox for users to push projects/snippets anonymously to a place where others could criticize, make fun of, and explain to them why their code fails. I'm sure the concept could easily attract programmers trolling other programmers, but that's also part of the fun since the community your pushing it for know their code was crap to begin with.

A couple more comparisons I couldn't resist: a DCVS for 4chan or extending pastebin to the point that it has an API and a user community who prefer logging and learning from their failures by contributing to this repository.