I assumed this would be more personal. People expressing anger, depression, etc. This seems to be rants about things they find mildly annoying.
Not sure if the site wants or will encourage/enforce one or the others.
Yikes. I get not supporting mobile for now, but what about people who like to use little browser windows like me? Doesn't seem to be responsive at all.
I understand your problem. Apparently, our front-end dev isn't available on weekdays, so we are discussing it and trying to optimize the frontend. Thank you for your feedback.
I have always assumed that people like to use at least most of their screen's real estate if not all - what is your reason for liking narrow windows (especially considering that I think even nowadays on most of the web the experience would be degraded)
Multitasking. Watching videos, writing something up, having another website open, messaging, Skype, or anything else you can think of while browsing. Having two windows open side by side isn't abnormal and is one of the main reasons why window managers even exist instead of desktops using a mobile-like UI paradigm where you can only have one program on the screen at a time.
Counter question: why would you want something as one-dimensional as a website (especially the OP) taking up all of your screen real estate?
most people I see do this do it on multiple screens not multiple windows on one screen (or multiple tablet sized windows on one large screen, and most do it without making any screen as extremely narrow as the parent did.
However I suppose also that most is not all, and there must be some outliers who do it on a single laptop screen either from necessity or preference. I might find myself doing extremely narrow windows out of necessity but never preference, and then the extremely narrow windows would almost always be on something I was working on - as it is indeed in your case - and not to interact with someone else's site.
As a general rule then I would move between tabs or windows if I were reading documentation or help on a subject.
I tend not to read at the same time as programming, I might read, stop reading, and then program based on what I read, but not have two tools open and have my eyes continually hopping between them.
This will lead to a lower risk for people shouting their actual feelings on the platform. Also I feel like something like this is direly needed with big tech starting to become "regulated" and breeding an atmosphere of censorship and "like farming".
On the other hand, this could also allow for people to easily spread hate and zeal for or about things that will cause more negativity and suffering.
I found signup and initial use to be quick and easy - no email or confirmation, etc.
The output does not respect carriage returns / newlines ... so while this HN post has multiple paragraphs, a similar input at "Shout It" would have this all run together with no newlines...
Thank you for your feedback! We will update this by the weekend.
Our main reason to show was to validate if people would like to pen down their feelings, so we wanted to confirm this! We have also thought a lot of ideas and are keeping them on hold. We basically wanted to know if the core functionality is useful or not!
For some reason this site has gone out of its way to make reading more difficult by removing scroll momentum. As a result it takes quite a lot of effort just to read a few of these.
We have taken your suggestion and changed some features of the platform, we are continually developing it. We would like to know your feedback.
--The dev team
