Submitted 2 weeks ago by Henryterd@feddit.online to [deleted]
I made this. Screen names, dial-up sound, no account. We fill the Lobby every Saturday 2pm US Central. Bring your worst 1997 screen name.
OP, this is you for real? First off, well done. It’s lovely to be online without bots.
Can you tell us from a privacy perspective, what records and data you collect? I assume IP address and logs of the text. What else? Browser data? Just curious.
Thank you :-) - yep, it’s me. no account or email. your lines are stored with your screen name and shown to people in the room for up to seven days.
a random token in your browser holds your name so nobody else can take it; it isn’t tied to who you are. your IP is used for rate limits and spam and kept 7 days at most.
lines are checked by an outside moderation service before they post, and a few refused ones are kept 48 hours to tune the filter.
the bot check (Vercel) may set its own cookie. nothing is sold. full privacy page is in Help. don’t put personal info in the room, anyone can read it.
The “outside moderation service” appears to be OpenAI, so the chats will be stored indefinitely.
For rate limits, I would ask that you please add a cooldown counter to know how long to sit out. I also didn’t know no URLs were allowed and tried to paste a link, which didn’t paste. So I try and edit it to not be a URL, no go (which I’m sort of OK with, but broken up URLs might be nice). Then in that and trying to ask “hey, can we not post links here?” I got throttled to the point I wasn’t sure how long I needed to wait around. If it’s a minute, I’ll wait. If I somehow hit 10 minutes or something, that’s crazy.
I do want to commend you for translating emojis to emoticons. That’s very classy.
I still use IRC. It’s great.
Had to use my 90s username for the 90s chat.
I was only 12 in 1997, and knew the latrin prefix “necro” meant dead and appended “file” to it, like a dead file or a 404 error. I was unaware that necrophile was a word or what it meant, so I usually got teased when I came into places rockin’ the name “n3cr0fil3.” 🤣
I just recommended Angine de Poitrine to someone in there, good times.
Also I’m recommending Angine de Poitrine to all of you too. A breath of fresh music air in this goddamn capitalist hellscape we’re in.
What a cool thing! It’s super chill in there.
Have been running Linux since either 95 or 96. Literally still on IRC. Looks exactly the same today except the font in my xterm is bigger.
I haven't been called slurs, yet.
0/10, not accurate. >:C
Hehehe, I love that you also made a bootup and desktop interface! You've done a real good job!
I’m just here to fight about Windows 95 vs System 7.
I like System 7 a lot more because I have a lot more experience with it growing up and playing Shatterball.
I mean it’s in the domain name so not unsurprising
“lol” was not a thing yet
Wrong, we rofl’d and lol’d on our BBS chatboards in the 80s.
Poor kid though it’s about League of legends
A/S/L?
🤟
It’s not much, but it’s honest ASL.
I used it for AOL/AIM. back then it was “lots of love” so when it started changing and used in texts I was confused, lol 🤔
But it was laugh out loud before AOL/AIM existed.
“Dave Barry in Cyberspace” was published in 1996 and contained a list of abbreviations commonly used on the Internet, including “LOL”.
Well this is pretty neat
So where do I send my bots?
whoa that is cool, at least it’s not smiley or some !
Thanks for making this. Its so fun!
Drusas@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
If not a/s/l, not realistic.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
There are many
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
18/f/cali, even if the real answer starts with a 4.