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Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by eps on Friday February 11, 2022 @03:20AM (#30298621)
Doesn't seem to work in Mobile Safari.

Just getting the explainer text in the header, "Recent board" and a ghost emoji at the bottom and the rest is completely blank.

Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by ncr100 on Friday February 11, 2022 @03:31AM (#30298723)
HTTP 500 from their API, maybe try again later
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by kanwisher on Friday February 11, 2022 @03:30AM (#30298718)
Didn't work on safari or chrome on osx ;/
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by skhr0680 on Friday February 11, 2022 @04:46AM (#30299370)
It was working fine before, HN hug of death?
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by limboy on Friday February 11, 2022 @07:32AM (#30300649)
should works now
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by hughrr on Friday February 11, 2022 @07:03AM (#30300402)
Thats going to take me at least half a day to draw a penis on.
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by limboy on Friday February 11, 2022 @09:04AM (#30301598)
Reset time has reduced to 5 minutes. half a day is not needed
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by hughrr on Friday February 11, 2022 @10:12AM (#30302320)
Challenge accepted!
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by 3z on Friday February 11, 2022 @08:22AM (#30301132)
Getting a lot of /r/place vibes...
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by hughrr on Friday February 11, 2022 @08:51AM (#30301443)
Was not intended like that. Reverse the argument: it’s really hard to vandalise it due to the relatively low attention span of vandals and the throttling.
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by 3z on Friday February 11, 2022 @08:54AM (#30301490)
I still haven't been able to access it, but I'm assuming it wouldn't be too hard to set a bot up and have it draw on certain coordinates.
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by buster on Friday February 11, 2022 @04:03AM (#30299039)
Mhh.. down? Looks like it uses some platform called Vercel..

From their homepage, it doesn't sound like it's too obsessed with performance ;)

  Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-  user performance.
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by AmazingTurtle on Friday February 11, 2022 @04:07AM (#30299067)
Vercel is great. The dev just most likely fucked up his code thats why you're getting 500 on the API.
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by Jaruzel on Friday February 11, 2022 @04:36AM (#30299286)
> The dev just most likely fucked up his code

That's a bit harsh. You don't know that (and the dev is reading these comments).

Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by marginalia_nu on Friday February 11, 2022 @07:38AM (#30300706)
To be fair, 100% of software problems were created by the person in front of the keyboard. An empty source file has no bugs.
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by the_cramer on Friday February 11, 2022 @08:19AM (#30301102)
True. As long as you don't use any external dependency like APIs, libraries, databases.
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by limboy on Friday February 11, 2022 @04:20AM (#30299173)
there's something wrong with upstash service, looking into it.

Vercel is good :)

Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by dev_ilter on Friday February 11, 2022 @05:17AM (#30299589)
what exactly is the problem you are experiencing?
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by limboy on Friday February 11, 2022 @07:32AM (#30300654)
upstash.com has a limit of 1mb size per request. Have to split it into multi sub requests
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by culi on Friday February 11, 2022 @06:25AM (#30300116)
Can't get it working here, but sounds similar to

- /r/place

- [milliondollarhomepage](http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/)

- [yourworldoftext](https://www.yourworldoftext.com/)

- and someone here pointe out [satoshis.place](https://satoshis.place/)

Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by limboy on Friday February 11, 2022 @07:30AM (#30300639)
yes, some inspiration come from /r/place and milliondollarhomepage

haven't heard last two, seems interesting.

Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by high_pathetic on Friday February 11, 2022 @03:51PM (#30306836)
I fail to see the point of this. I can paint exactly one square and then wait for 5 minutes while nothing^H^Hbarely anything is happening? I can't doodle anything meaningful without filling at least 5x5 area, and I need to spent at least two hours for that.

I think this could be more attractive if done as a turn-based play. Fill a square within, say, 10 sec and then wait until everyone currently online finishes their turn. And so on.

Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by pvity on Friday February 11, 2022 @04:34AM (#30299272)
I tried opening it with desktop Safari, Firefox (both with content blockers) and Chromium (no content blockers), none worked. Is it down at the moment? Also: is there more context to read in the meantime? E.g. an announcement or blog that describes the project?
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by encryptluks2 on Friday February 11, 2022 @04:58AM (#30299439)
So this isn't even working for me. Generally in order for me to say I like something and not give some negative feedback it needs to be working.
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by 3z on Friday February 11, 2022 @08:25AM (#30301166)
Most likely it's the HN hug of death, where a bunch of users go from here to their site. Usually this happens to sites on the front page with low specs.
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by encryptluks2 on Saturday February 12, 2022 @12:13PM (#30314366)
Still down for me. Seems like they couldn't keep it working at all or it didn't work when it was submitted.
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by tannerwj on Friday February 11, 2022 @01:46PM (#30305430)
I'm getting:

Access restricted Site: 50x50.space This site is blocked. Please contact your administrator for further assistance.

Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by tentacleuno on Saturday February 12, 2022 @08:59AM (#30312852)
Sounds like your network is blocking it. Company computers?
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by account42 on Friday February 11, 2022 @07:58AM (#30300899)
This doesn't seem to be a single 50x50 space but multiple that requests are randomly routed to.
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by waynesonfire on Friday February 11, 2022 @01:52AM (#30297928)
Would like to buy the filled board as nft.
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by zeepzeep on Friday February 11, 2022 @02:27AM (#30298175)
this reminds me of satoshis.place (1 pixel on such a board = 0.00000001 Bitcoin)
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by parksy on Friday February 11, 2022 @05:34AM (#30299733)
Great idea, let's sell pixels as NFTs. But how would they control colour? Can the owner of an NFT add to or alter its metadata in anyway?

Bit tongue in cheek really. People are already slamming NFTs as useless scams, the media would have a field day over this lol.

Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by can16358p on Friday February 11, 2022 @08:00AM (#30300910)
Actually while not preferred, yes altering metadata is possible by either linking tokenUri to off-chain http server or having the ERC-721 token's smart contract's functions modify state and tokenUri returning some base64-encoded dynamic data based on the on-chain state (which I personally implemented and works pretty great).

Though it brings a less-technological yet more philosophical question about NFTs and what they represent being forever the same/frozen, or not, though I don't think it's the discussion for here.

Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by parksy on Friday February 11, 2022 @02:24PM (#30305900)
Hm yeah I think it's an interesting concept, perhaps it's not preferred under current NFT definitions to my mind something can be both non-fungible and mutable. I can own a house, but I can renovate the interior, add rooms, paint walls etc - those changes are done _to_ the house, it's still the same house, and I still own it.

Off-chain solutions where longevity is concerned don't sit well with me - I don't personally trust oracles to be available for eternity or remain benevolent. Your approach based on a smart contract sounds good as it's on-chain. But would it be preferred to have a dynamic / mutable NFT standard with this capability baked in somehow?

Anyway not really my wheelhouse, and as you say probably off topic for now. Just something I find interesting to consider.

Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by can16358p on Saturday February 12, 2022 @01:58AM (#30310569)
The functionality that alters the metadata is actually a requirement for our project. As time passes the token turns into something different. (For clarification: this is clearly defined in our whitepaper, website, Discord server, and most importantly easily verifiable on contract code itself so no shady business here)

Strictly speaking, ERC-721 (the official standard for NFTs on Ethereum) doesn't say that whatever is returned from tokenUri function (which defines all the properties, name, image etc. of the particular NFT) can't change. So in simpler terms the contract can change the tokenUri afterwards (of course if there is code in the contract to support that).

It boils down to how users/community perceive NFTs, and your house analogy is perfect for what we are doing (in our case something is "happening to the house as time passes" but you get the idea). In the technical sense the standard is agnostic about tokenUri mutability, as long as the token DOES have a tokenUri (which can just be a base64 "data:" URI anyway).

It will be interesting to see what's possible, I'm pretty much sure that the "killer app" based on ERC-721's haven't been invented and when this Ponzi-like ridiculously pricing of non-functional NFTs mania is over, we'll start seeing some real solutions.

Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by markdown on Friday February 11, 2022 @06:44AM (#30300271)
> But how would they control colour?

You can't use colors... they've been sold, lol.

https://www.printmag.com/design-news/the-color-museum/

Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by can16358p on Friday February 11, 2022 @07:57AM (#30300891)
Had this exact idea for months. Maybe should have acted quicker.
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by orangepanda on Friday February 11, 2022 @05:05AM (#30299501)
There's a dedicated nft button on most full sized keyboards
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by doublerabbit on Friday February 11, 2022 @05:10AM (#30299549)
Is that Alt+F4?
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by pjerem on Friday February 11, 2022 @09:59AM (#30302194)
"ctrl+w = friends" was my nickname on agar.io. Pretty effective.
Re:Show HN: 50x50.space a public board to doodle together by alainchabat on Friday February 11, 2022 @06:50AM (#30300305)
if you want to do it with NFT: https://project-memento.com/