I'm Everyone, a live, anonymous image/video site (potentially NSFW).

http://imeveryone.com

by nailer • 16 years ago

84 54 16 years ago

TamDenholm• 16 years ago

Really interesting, as long as you can stop it from becoming 4chan. :P

nailer19• 16 years ago

Thanks man.

The thing I'm hoping is that it 4chan continues to be the best place to trade porn. They do it better, ImEveryone is more about the actual communication, hence the semi-persistent identities, threading, etc.

I can run ImEveryone in black and white with little difference.

In the gap between the post and the submission hitting the front page there's some degree of filtering - you could get around it if you wanted to, but why not just send to 4chan?

ZeroMinx• 16 years ago

There was quite a pornographic picture top of the page when I visited, a couple of minutes ago (there's a new top picture now).

You probably need some sort of warning for that..

cing2• 16 years ago

Has anyone tried to make a real-time version of an image board like 4chan? I know there are image-based chats (http://dump.fm/chat for example) but none of them are threaded. I guess what I'm really after is a "threaded chat" where you can sticky a topic and have it float at the top of your chat dialog with auto-updating replies. Anyone know of something like this?

cing2• 16 years ago

I guess it's just a different UI to http://www.tangler.com/ or Google Wave...

swah• 16 years ago

Same think I thought... "I'm everyone" is just another way of saying "We're anonymous".

prabodh2• 16 years ago

Please add NSFW to the title ..

nailer19• 16 years ago

Done.

Something got past the adult filter - it's now gone. Sorry about that.

hardik• 16 years ago

How have you implemented the 'adult filter'?

prabodh2• 16 years ago

Thanks..But i think some other one has already on the front page..So safe to add NSFW :)

noverloop• 16 years ago

Allow people to flag submissions if you want a working 'adult filter'

necolas• 16 years ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1939945 - oh well. I like what you've done and will be interested to see how the content evolves as more people start using it

PostOnce• 16 years ago

I've always wanted to do things like this, but the potential illegal uploads freak me out. Even if I wouldn't end up liable for anything in the end, I'm sure it could still cause me a big headache.

devinj• 16 years ago

Why is it that this post is not dead, but the author's description comment is?

nailer19• 16 years ago

Edit: I see, the comment itself was [dead]. Not sure what happened there. Dead comment deleted and replicated below.

nailer19• 16 years ago

I launched this late last night, a few things that make it unique:

- You can actually have a conversation with someone - each person submitting gets a unique animal for the thread. All replies from the same animal are from the same person.

- It's realtime, you can happily sit there and watch idly if you wish.

- There's a ranking algoritm that's based on interaction rather than vites.

There's still a few bugs to work out: post errors are at the top of the page Stack Overflow style but the first users all seem to hate this location - I'll move it back to the comment box. Also replies will get images very soon, but this isn't yet implemented yet.

I'm trying to chase the PostSecret demographic, but expect the odd birth of anonymous mirth in their too. The audience is anyone who is interested in the lives of others, or who has the basic human need to have a witness to their lives. Tech stack is Python, Tornado, MongoDB, my own ORM.

lancer3832• 16 years ago

I really like this - very simple (although I am guessing there is a lot of complexity behind the scenes to make it so simple).

One idea — what about making people authenticate with Facebook Connect to post? This would help with concerns about bad content being uploaded, as well as give a little bit of info about the author, and down the road you could subscribe to posts by a particular author?

nailer19• 16 years ago

I've thought about this, and haven't made up my mind yet. I want people to say what's on their mind and part of that means that the post can't be easily tied back to their identity. Facebook connect seems the antithesis of that, but I guess at some point people have to trust the site they're posting on.

lancer3832• 16 years ago

Definitely see what you're saying.

Two things:

One is that it would lose the "I'm everyone" feel, as now there are identities of the authors.

Second part would be that just because you would use Facebook Connect to authenticate wouldn't mean that you would have to use their personal info on their post - they could choose between using their own info and using an alias that gives no tie back to who they are. Would just have to work on messaging so that people aren't scared away by the Facebook Connect logo.

clofresh• 16 years ago

Looks like posting a youtube embed in the comments breaks things

nailer19• 16 years ago

Yeah, if people try to poste the actual embed code than the URL it's ugly. I'll fix that and come up with a suitable error.

bobds2• 16 years ago

Tried posting a couple times, it didn't work.

nailer19• 16 years ago

If you didn't have an image or embed, or your post set of a filter, check the very top of the page.

Errors in posts are at the top of the page, an idea I borrowed from Stack Overflow.

In testing, though, people don't like this, so I'll move the error messages next revision.

bobds2• 16 years ago

I did have an image and only a few words unlikely to set off a filter. It could be a problem on my side, maybe the AJAX request timed out or something similar. I didn't see any errors at the top.

joshwa• 16 years ago

Giving it about 3 weeks until it's overrun by spammers.

nailer19• 16 years ago

We use a couple of peer-based spam filtering services, generally they tend to be quite agressive. They've been successful in testing so far with the odd false positive.

edkennedy4• 16 years ago

I would suggest a way to see how many comments have been made on each photo. Fantastic blog, I'm enjoying all the content so far. Also when an image is clicked it would be great to see the full size. For example there is a long image file that has been shrunk down so all the text is unreadable.

nailer19• 16 years ago

Ack, will do in next revision.

Edit: done - comment count and full size images now running.

edkennedy4• 16 years ago

I'm not seeing comment count on the live page, it's working on the top page however. Full size image by link is working now however.

doki_pen• 16 years ago

I get a 500

nailer19• 16 years ago

Was restarting to handle the flood of traffic - retry.

A better 'sorry' page for these times is on my todo list. In fact I'd love some way for nginx to realize a proxy is down and redirect to a sorry page automatically.

sad_hacker• 16 years ago

500: Internal Server Error

hugh3• 16 years ago

Looks good. I'm impressed by the design, and interested to see whether "high class" design (the oldey-worldey 1920s sort of feeling you have going on here) will encourage "high class" content. It feels somehow wrong to post a lolcat with all those fancy curlicues around.

Just a quick comment: I don't think the "each person in a thread has their own animal" feature is working correctly -- I posted a comment in a thread and got the same animal as an existing comment. In fact it looks like all comments at the same level wind up with the same animal.

nailer19• 16 years ago

Thanks man, you've hit the nail on the head.

Working on the animals fix now.

cagenut2• 16 years ago

this is really cool, of course bad apples will make it a neverending challenge but I like the concept of a truly live group blog.

just a note, chrome appears to be hanging on ping.chartbeat.com and somtimes GA. uploads are hit or miss.

mdaniel• 16 years ago

I've had nothing but success since I edited /etc/hosts and mapped GA hosts to 127.0.0.1. I loathe that lag which was introduced just so someone can save themselves the trouble of analyzing logs.

cagenut2• 16 years ago

there is a massive difference between the data you can get from logs and what you get from GA

Ocho-Bits• 16 years ago

I've read that you used Python and other technologies, care to go on a little detail?

MrJagil• 16 years ago

Do you know Simon Collison? I was just wondering as both your sites have the same unique theme going:

http://colly.com/

Anyway, great site, though I find it rather cluttered with all the oversized text and images. Scale it all down a bit, and it will be much easier to get an overview of what is going on. Good luck!

nailer19• 16 years ago

The vintage animal pictures are from iStockphoto, but yes, I asked Colly where he got his animal pictures - he directed me to iStockphoto.

elai• 16 years ago

Classier 1 board 4chan, without any pagination. Other chans have the semi persistent identities too, and other features that 4chan lacks.

huhtenberg• 16 years ago

The page keep scrolling up to the top with every automatic refresh (once a minute?). Not very nice if one is browsing/reading/watching-video below the fold.

MortenK• 16 years ago

I tried uploading an image without entering any text. I then got a message "Cat got your tounge?". I then tried uploading same image, this time with text. Then I got "You triggered the spamfilter". I can't see the submission, so I'm guessing it didn't get created. You might want to add the typical red asterisk or something to both input fields, to signify they are mandatory.

In any case, really cool concept, congrats!

daimyoyo• 16 years ago

Every time I try to post a comment I get a 500 error. I like the concept but the site seems a bit buggy right now. Also, I tried to post my comment from an iPhone 4 running iOS 4.2.1 if that info would help.

harisenbon• 16 years ago

The style, idea and execution of this site is brilliant in its simplicity.

Very well done.

Now let's just hope it doesn't get covered with porn. :/

(or at least branch off the porn section ;)