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Hello HN! We're a small team in Kyoto building a website called dédédé (https://dedede.de/en) that invites people to share the various positives, negatives, oddities, etc. they find in urban spaces.

The project grew out of an earlier effort where we'd built an app that assisted participatory urbanism workshops run by local nonprofits. With the new platform, we're trying to build something similar but more casual and hopefully with broader appeal, that'll be fun to use even outside of formal workshop situations.

We'd love to hear your thoughts!

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sgc · 35d ago

Technical note: I am using FF on Linux, and needed to go to google translate to be able to read the site. The main page [1] loads with images, but when I click through, the images don't load on the detail pages [2].

1. https://dedede-de.translate.goog/en?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=e...

2. eg: https://dedede-de.translate.goog/en/posts/hKOjEJV9mf?_x_tr_s...

kappasan · 35d ago

Thanks so much, we'll look into it!

ripley12 · 35d ago

This is very cool, thanks for sharing it. I'll try to add some entries about Vancouver when I have time.

kappasan · 35d ago

Thanks, would love to see posts from outside Japan!

kappasan · 35d ago

OP here - just to let you know the signup form asks for an email address, but we're just using it as the user ID so a non-working address works fine.

EDIT: apart from one minor inconvenience, you won't be able to reset your password if you forget it

bythreads · 35d ago

Love it, simple sentiment gathering. AI bots are going to love to crawl that one ;)

mc3301 · 35d ago

Oh cool, when I have free time I have many dozens in Japan that I could add.

upghost · 35d ago

Incidentally while exploring this site I discovered how much better the highlight and "translate" feature of iOS has gotten!

Thanks kappasan!

sinuhe69 · 34d ago

Adding automatic translation will make the site more accessible for a broader audience.

kappasan · 34d ago

I agree that is very true. We'll see if there are free (or very cheap) solutions we could use.

riffic · 35d ago

feels a lot like a pattern language! I'd love for your site to catch on in my neck of the woods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_language

kappasan · 35d ago

Huh I vaguely remember hearing that term somewhere... will read up on it, thanks!

chachan · 35d ago

This is the internet I miss.

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