Webneko – a desktop screenmate ported to web

[nkanaev]

https://webneko.net/

[elliottcarlson]

I am rebuilding the website for a personal project of mine; the site is for a mod in a game that offers twitch integration, and in the mod, there is a "twitch chest" that only chat can open.

I added an easter egg on the website, that when you click on the chest in the footer, it follows the mouse in a similar way it would within the game -- it keeps a safe distance from the mouse to prevent interfering with it, and will repel away to that distance when moving the mouse towards it.

https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/floating-chest-k33n63 for a React component that implements this functionality.

[kristopolous]

A bunch of those assets have a last modified date of 2010. Some projects can actually be done.

[netsharc → kristopolous]

It mentions Xanga and MySpace... hah, those are ancient civilizations in Internet time...

Yeah MySpace still exists. Incredibly it has a "Sign in with your Facebook account" button.

[kristopolous → netsharc]

MySpace's "proper" successor is https://spacehey.com/

Something like 2.7 million users, looks like mostly teenagers. https://spacehey.com/browse

I'm open to the idea it's just nostalgic people in their 30s recapturing their youth by cosplaying as teenagers but that'd be a pretty huge larp given the effort and volume of profiles.

[mdrzn]

Is there any similar app still being worked on for desktop? Would love to have a Neko cat run around the desktop as always-on-top.

[Tblue468 → mdrzn]

There’s at least:

- http://www.daidouji.com/oneko/ (ancient)

- https://github.com/crgimenes/neko

- https://git.sr.ht/~leon_plickat/wayneko

[macic]

Looks very similar to oneko.js