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My bird so far:
>Caught 25 times · fed 4 times · 23 cities
For feedback, I'd say make it more obvious to feed. The icon is not obvious and you'd likely feed a lot more than flag.
It would be bad if people make bots to spam non human birds even if they could be prevented from being straight up bad, even good seeming birds that aren't human would be a drag. I imagine text based would be hard due to the extremely short nature. And obviously we don't want to compromise anonymity.
I really like the general site UI.
The birds you feed kinda pile up in a long list. I feel like it makes them insignificant. Perhaps embrace ephemerality? Idk how to solve this.
open source?
reply to birds? Birds could have comments. No privacy, but anonymity.
i don't understand the manual send away button.
Clean AI/translator text content from website.
Do birds stop eventually? I assume so. Maybe a button to send one back out there from your fed list.
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Thanks for the detailed feedback, really appreciate it.
On “send away”: that’s the actual release action — if you don’t tap it, the bird stays in a pending state and can resurface, which sounds like exactly what’s happening to you (and to ShinyLeftPad below, reopening the site in the same browser brings back a bird that was never sent away). We agree the button isn’t obvious right now and that’s worth fixing.
On bots / non-human birds: it’s a real concern for us too, and we’re thinking about how to discourage that without compromising anonymity. No solution yet, but it’s on our radar.
The feed icon visibility, the long list of fed birds feeling insignificant, the idea of replies/comments on birds, and cleaning up the translated text — all noted, we’re not solving these in this thread but they’re captured for the next round of work.
Maybe if you don't "send away" a bird it will repeat. I get many repeat messages after I opened the site again in the same browser. Maybe I should have sent them away.