Online Confessions, deleted after 200 views

https://loneliness.one/confession

by lhoff • 4 years ago

14 23 4 years ago

loneliness.one

JasonFruit• 4 years ago

Not today, FBI, not today.

willis936• 4 years ago

But one day? That counts right? Bring him in boys.

1123581321• 4 years ago

Am I burning those 200 views if I see the same confession multiple times? The random selector can show you ones you’ve just seen. That or Sarah Pearson’s been extra busy.

baking2• 4 years ago

Maybe someone is cutting and pasting the same confession ever and over again.

TSiege• 4 years ago

This desperately needs moderation

dr_dshiv• 4 years ago

Wow, that’s toxic. Just read a screed on n*ggers. Hope the person felt better. Wow. Intense.

asveikau• 4 years ago

I'm sure I'm not the only one here who remembers trolls on slashdot back in the day. There was one consistent theme about "gay n-word". GNAA. That's what I'm suddenly reminded of.

In hindsight I think some of that old trolling was people's mental health problems on display.

baking2• 4 years ago

This is bad. This is very, very, bad. No thanks.

mkathuri• 4 years ago

IE8 is my favorite browser...

ratww2• 4 years ago

Now that's a confession!

excerionsforte• 4 years ago

No quality control on the site and seeing very spammy racist messages on the site. Had to close this dumpster fire.

ratww2• 4 years ago

I see either racist stuff or someone who spammed hundreds of messages to get a job.

civilized• 4 years ago

Looks like someone is flooding it with copies of an N-word-ridden rant, making it hard to find any other content.

EDIT: and now it's anti-Semitic conspiracy. And now it's down.

philliphaydon3• 4 years ago

Back in early 2000 there was a confession website. I forget the name. But man some of the confessions on there… can’t unread that stuff 20 years later…

dcx• 4 years ago

PostSecret? It looks like it's possibly still running actually - https://postsecret.com/

philliphaydon3• 4 years ago

Na it was similar to the OPs site but better looking… it had the word “hug” in it.

chris72205• 4 years ago

One I remember was GroupHug or similar name. There were numerous IRC bots at the time that would post stories/confessions from it.

philliphaydon3• 4 years ago

GroupHug!

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=497057

Just found that searching it.

superkuh• 4 years ago

These type of sites were very popular in the late 90s/early 2000s. The most famous one was probably lowbrow.com, https://web.archive.org/web/19990428052738/http://www.lowbro...

I suppose with all the spillover from the web back into real life these days the view limit is needed. Lowbrow stored stories until lowbrow stopped existing.

There's another "anonymous message server" I've been using since the late 90s where you just get whatever the person before you to the site wrote. It is amazingly still going today but I think linking it on HN would kill it.

sshine• 4 years ago

Some experiences don’t translate well to a mass audience.

Like your favourite spot in nature.

CM30• 4 years ago

Hmm seems like either the randomisation function is very, very broken or the same confessions have been entered thousands of times, since I've seen the same two confessions about ten times so far.

Quality control seems questionable too, but hey, maybe I'd disagree if I saw a more varied set of answers.

mnd999• 4 years ago

Elon’s Twitter 2.0 prototype?

ben_w• 4 years ago

Interesting. Judging by how many I had to read before I saw my own, I suspect it has about twice as many viewers as confessors.

Online Confessions, deleted after 200 views

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