Interesting idea. Kudos to you for making it happen.
This reminds me of an agency site from many years ago (circa 2009) Red Universe, which gave all site visitors a cartoon avatar, and you would explore the landscape of content by flying or walking around and if you approached another avatar you could chat with them. It blew my mind… it would have been a mind boggling amount of work to produce with the available tools at the time…
These kinds of ideas challenge the third wall of websites, this idea that we are alone on a site while in reality there are sometimes thousands of other users there doing the same thing you are.
One of the reasons people are drawn to leaving comments or reading comments is it brings that social component back to an otherwise solitary activity… not saying this is always a good thing, but is interesting to consider nonetheless.
Chat takes the positive and negative aspects of comments and amplifies them.
I could imagine a lot of dystopian things that uses could do with this… but some fun things too… imagine chatting with someone on one site, then playing hide and go seek with them across the internet, by leaving hints as to which site you’ll visit.
But of course as others have said, and I will say again don’t underestimate how bad actors tend to take something fun and novel and make it dark, dangerous and cruel.
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Interesting idea. Kudos to you for making it happen.
This reminds me of an agency site from many years ago (circa 2009) Red Universe, which gave all site visitors a cartoon avatar, and you would explore the landscape of content by flying or walking around and if you approached another avatar you could chat with them. It blew my mind… it would have been a mind boggling amount of work to produce with the available tools at the time…
These kinds of ideas challenge the third wall of websites, this idea that we are alone on a site while in reality there are sometimes thousands of other users there doing the same thing you are.
One of the reasons people are drawn to leaving comments or reading comments is it brings that social component back to an otherwise solitary activity… not saying this is always a good thing, but is interesting to consider nonetheless.
Chat takes the positive and negative aspects of comments and amplifies them.
I could imagine a lot of dystopian things that uses could do with this… but some fun things too… imagine chatting with someone on one site, then playing hide and go seek with them across the internet, by leaving hints as to which site you’ll visit.
But of course as others have said, and I will say again don’t underestimate how bad actors tend to take something fun and novel and make it dark, dangerous and cruel.