wholinator2 8 months ago

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.

thrance 8 months ago

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?

IncreasePosts 8 months ago

This should also redact any non-dictionary words. Just_typing_like_this_to_make_a_really_long_unique_"word"_is_silly.

  • throwup238 8 months ago

    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.

pimeys 8 months ago

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.

crtasm 8 months ago

>Redact-A-Chat is an online chat platform where every word can only be used once a day.

kurayashi 8 months ago

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subarctic 8 months ago

Pretty cool how this is surviving the HN hug of death right now. What's it built on?

  • tyleo 8 months ago

    Had the same thought. About 2k users connected when I opened it. Impressive if the numbers are believed.

  • lukaslukas 8 months ago

    5$ vps probably not

    • Kiro 8 months ago

      What do you mean "probably not"? A $5 VPS should be able to handle this with ease.

kristopolous 8 months ago

Every now and then the beauty of 90s Internet anarchy comes back in brief flashes

chrisallick 8 months ago

meh... i guess it proves if you take words away people cant chat?

  • mrinfinitiesx 8 months ago

    n07 5u23 wh47 y0u m34n?

    • chrisallick 8 months ago

      haha wow i remember making a l337 speak room idle bot in VB6 for AOL for my warez group. Better times :)

preciousoo 8 months ago

3 slurs upon entry. "lol"

krunck 8 months ago

Infested with imbeciles.