The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
itseieio,
eieio.games,
Aug 30, 2024
This is a great article telling the story of 'one million checkboxes' - a website the author created with a million global checkboxes (meaning that if one person checked a box, it would be checked for anyone viewing the site). "I thought hundreds of players would check thousands of boxes," he writes, "instead, 500,000 players checked over 650,000,000 boxes in the two weeks that I kept the site online." Not just that - they used the checkboxes to write code in ASCII, to generate moving images, to refer people to websites and more. The users created a Discord channel about it. "Getting to watch it live - getting to provide some encouragement, to see what they were doing and respond with praise and pride instead of anger - was deeply meaningful to me." Via Danilo Campos.
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