arboc

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by arboc 6y ago
I think "stigmatization" isn't quite the word for spreading disinformation/speculations about the actions of a government, but you're right. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus
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by arboc 6y ago
About the "at home" statistic. What proportion of the population is staying at home? If it's say 90%, then even if the case rate among these people is five times lower than among the people who are not staying home, there wil
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by arboc 6y ago
It's kind of a complicated issue. I do think that we should refer to the 1918 flu as just that. However, since that's so far back in the past, you won't find a lot of people pointing their fingers at Spain and accusing Spania
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by arboc 6y ago
Small addendum: What was used was just digitalocean+wordpress, with some custom code for the posting / upvoting system (but of course gregsadetsky - see comment above - had already figured out that it was digitalocean) (also to all pos
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by arboc 6y ago
Sorry for the long wait again uxcolumbo. This is the description I got from one of the crew members who worked with more of the technical side of things: "Because we needed speed we hosted a wordpress site with a directory plugin that
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by arboc 6y ago
You mean links or any of the text/original content on the site? When it comes to the links, you of course don't need to explain that you found them through our site (unless you'd e. g. grab all of the links from one of the ca
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by arboc 6y ago
Hehe, good point.
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by arboc 6y ago
Done! I also slightly changed the wording to emphasize that it's educative and free, hope that's OK. Good luck teaching the kids :)
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by arboc 6y ago
Nice! Since there's no better to place for it I'll mention one thing about gathering resources (like at your FB page), hope that's okay: I think there are a lot of people like you and our team who try to gather inspiration an
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by arboc 6y ago
Good point! Even as we did the presentation of the project at the end of the hackathon, one of the judges immediately mentioned how he needed loads of tips, as he was at home with two teenage kids. We unfortunately haven't found a lot
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by arboc 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback! When you say incorrect, I guess you mean that it's basically wrong to have the big block of graphic as it goes against sound web design/layout principles, making it harder to navigate et c? I can see what
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by arboc 6y ago
Thank you for the heads up and the tip! A team member got the same issue as you yesterday but then the icons started working again, just like it was for you. I'll pass this on to the rest of the team.
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by arboc 6y ago
Thank you for the kind words! :D
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by arboc 6y ago
Done! Thank you so much for creating the service and for sharing :) You can see the link here https://homenauts.com/social-contact-and-communication/ (and at the main page of course) If you want you can upvote your lin
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by arboc 6y ago
Fantastic! Looking through the material linked by the blog post I found this instruction video for how to build one of those: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4Csqdxkrfw
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by arboc 6y ago
Thanks! I actually don't know the technical details myself scratches head except that we're using WordPress (please don't judge ;) - it is very handy when some members, like me, who are less tech-savvy are contributing and
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by arboc 6y ago
panoramas4good - Thanks! I approved your link and it can now be seen at https://homenauts.com/kids-playtime-and-schooling/ (as well as through the main page of course). But there isn't that much information at the
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by arboc 6y ago
Thank you, and there are a lot of challenges! The greatest one I think is making sure that users find content that's a) relevant, b) more than just some quick-fix temporary entertainment and c) something they'll want to do and fee
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by arboc 6y ago
Thank you! If you want to submit the link to be shared at Homenauts, you can use the link at the top right on the site: https://homenauts.com/ (as you can see in the comment by panoramas4good above, you need to be on a desk
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by arboc 6y ago
Did you already submit? I definitely think your site deserves to be linked! I can't see your link in our list of links pending approval. I can add the link directly if you want, but then it'll look like I'm trying to take cre
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by arboc 6y ago
Very true and thanks! Don't know how we missed this. I've shared it with the team so we can fix it ASAP :)
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by arboc 6y ago
I and five other volunteers, with backgrounds in customer relations, UI/UX design+engineering, medicine, digital design and psychology formed a team and created a website in 48 hours during the weekend: https://homenauts.com
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Homenauts – Resources for explorers who stay at home during Covid-19(homenauts.com)
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