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I think it's a little different in the sense that identities are tied to individual messages instead of individual people.

When there's a conversation going, you can't tell how many people you're talking to, so the experience is a bit different in an important way.

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Maybe it's due to lack of experience, but I guess I didn't consider adoption from a business perspective when designing the initial experience.

Do you think a separate landing page or series of blog posts on Medium could lead to a better first impression? That way I could direct new users to specific tags and bypass the default channel altogether.

I disagree. Growing up I've had plenty of positive experiences with various anonymous communities online.

I do think that giving IDs to individual messages (instead of individual people) and not having an upvote/like system will go a long way in reducing the kind of toxic behavior you have in mind though.

I decided not to include editing or deleting to encourage users to think a little bit before sending a message.

Thanks for the feedback.

I'm still experimenting with finding the right balance between convenience and making users conscious of the decision to censor others. For now you can use the settings in the sidebar to filter words and message IDs.

Thanks!

I used firebase for the back end which made the implementation pretty straightforward.

I think this was due to keeping all loaded messages in the DOM.

I've made it so that only the most recent messages are kept if you're scrolled to the bottom, so it should be better now.

react and firebase~

Thanks! Glad you find it fun~

I'll look into different highlight colors and other ways to improve the UX.

Yeah I need to look into that lol.

Yep, I'll experiment with it this weekend!

Hmm maybe.

I don't think content will be an issue if sharing is handled through linking to specific tags (hashtags.chat/NotReallyPrivate instead of hashtags.chat) because of the built in lack of discoverability.

Thanks! And yeah, I definitely need to look more into filters.