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Re:Special.fish by flanbiscuit on Saturday June 06, 2020 @11:38AM (#23439892)
> Special Fish is a place for exploring logs and lists. You could think of Special Fish as a public word processor. Usually rtf/txt files just sit on a users computer. Special makes those documents into a social network.

Can you elaborate more on this? What do you mean by making text files on my computer into a social network? Is that just a metaphor or are you actually doing something like that?

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Re:Special.fish by cookingoils on Saturday June 06, 2020 @12:13PM (#23440175)
It's more of a metaphor for how to think about/approach the site. Logs and lists are stored in a centralized db so nothing new happening behind the scenes. Supporters are able to download their content as txt files, so you could use it as an online version of TextEdit.
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