Interesting concept. I open it and the very first chat i see is a slightly obfuscated n-word. Seems like most activity is just seeing if people have already said curse words, and apprending words with some character to make a single-word sentence.
If you just put an underscore between each word then the redaction moves to units of sentences instead of words. If you permute the underscores with hyphens then each sentence is easily accomplished near factorially with sentence length.
I just opened the site, got the text where anybody can enter the same word only once per day, background blurred. From the background I could see the N word in different versions, so just closed the tab.
Even better allow a set Levenshtein distance from the dictionary list of up to half the word length or something. Normalize the unicode or at least just convert punctuation, underscores, dashes, and other symbols to spaces.
And they made the code for their IRC bot open source, linked to at the bottom of that blog post. The link is now dead, but an archived copy of it can be found at https://archive.ph/d9KMK
Interesting concept. I open it and the very first chat i see is a slightly obfuscated n-word. Seems like most activity is just seeing if people have already said curse words, and apprending words with some character to make a single-word sentence.
If you just put an underscore between each word then the redaction moves to units of sentences instead of words. If you permute the underscores with hyphens then each sentence is easily accomplished near factorially with sentence length.
Just got in and all I see is variations on the N-words and hate speech against jews.
Maybe consider constraining users to real words (like those of the scrabble dictionary) and filter out bad words?
I just opened the site, got the text where anybody can enter the same word only once per day, background blurred. From the background I could see the N word in different versions, so just closed the tab.
This should also redact any non-dictionary words. Just_typing_like_this_to_make_a_really_long_unique_"word"_is_silly.
Even better allow a set Levenshtein distance from the dictionary list of up to half the word length or something. Normalize the unicode or at least just convert punctuation, underscores, dashes, and other symbols to spaces.
>Redact-A-Chat is an online chat platform where every word can only be used once a day.
Pretty cool how this is surviving the HN hug of death right now. What's it built on?
Had the same thought. About 2k users connected when I opened it. Impressive if the numbers are believed.
5$ vps probably not
What do you mean "probably not"? A $5 VPS should be able to handle this with ease.
Every now and then the beauty of 90s Internet anarchy comes back in brief flashes
meh... i guess it proves if you take words away people cant chat?
n07 5u23 wh47 y0u m34n?
haha wow i remember making a l337 speak room idle bot in VB6 for AOL for my warez group. Better times :)
Didn't #xkcd irc had a similar channel?
Yes. https://blog.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-a...
And they made the code for their IRC bot open source, linked to at the bottom of that blog post. The link is now dead, but an archived copy of it can be found at https://archive.ph/d9KMK
Enjoy. But also sorry to ruin it a bit. This will also work for many word filters online. I kinda feel bad bringing this up.
https://unicode-explorer.com/c/200B
3 slurs upon entry. "lol"
Infested with imbeciles.