Cursor Dance Party

by KerrickStaleyon 5/14/22, 1:46 AMwith 37 comments
by ovaqreon 5/14/22, 4:36 AM

The band Light Light made a delightful interactive music video based on the same principle: http://donottouch.org. Sadly, it appears only a recording of it remains online.

by Hamukoon 5/14/22, 10:54 AM

https://railway.app/

>Bring your code, we'll handle the rest.

>Made for any language, for projects big and small. Railway is the cloud that takes the complexity out of shipping software.

Not massively convinced at the moment.

by hifikunoon 5/14/22, 4:11 AM

Crazy this is ten years old. Or at least, it was shared here once ten years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=cursordanceparty.com

I like these fun examples, and the creativity of the person behind it.

by SheinhardtWigCoon 5/14/22, 3:58 AM

This is the Web3 we need, but not the one we deserve.

by maxicarlos08on 5/14/22, 9:45 AM

"Application Error" for me.

Another website killed by HN?

by cwilluon 5/14/22, 3:28 AM

Sad little mobile users are sad. And little. And immobile.

by hakreon 5/14/22, 10:23 AM

Is there an alternative copy, I only get https://railway.app/error-pages/project-error?domain=www.cur... ?

by ttamslamon 5/14/22, 2:49 AM

This is more fun than it should be - reminds me of jumping around cells in a shared google sheet

by lelandfeon 5/14/22, 11:31 AM

https://cursordisco.ytmnd.com/

Reminiscent of this internet classic :)

by tayloriuson 5/14/22, 7:07 AM

Nice to see the web being used properly for a change! :-)

by 7373737373on 5/14/22, 9:33 AM

One similar thing I'd like to see is a global voice chat room with directional audio

by mike_hockon 5/14/22, 7:52 AM

I took only a cursory glance at the website. 2 cores at 100% and a cursor that didn't move. When that hadn't changed after 10 seconds, I went back.

by LugarOSon 5/14/22, 4:17 AM

I figured out how to get infinite sized cursors ;)

by hrdwdmrblon 5/14/22, 9:57 AM

Even though the website isn't working right now I immediately know what it is. Fun idea!

by timeshoreon 5/14/22, 7:44 AM

Sick implementation; but perhaps an epilepsy warning would be apt for some of the animations.

by youesehon 5/14/22, 2:40 AM

Hah. Thank you =). Great fun.

by pingerooon 5/14/22, 4:00 AM

Fun site, but we need more fun colors for a proper dance party!

by Group_Bon 5/14/22, 2:50 AM

Now this is the kind of stuff I love visiting on the web

by TT-392on 5/14/22, 7:28 AM

I can finally properly flex my osu! skills

by LugarOSon 5/14/22, 3:15 AM

Funny site.

by solar-iceon 5/14/22, 5:36 AM

I'm pretty sure this doesn't work properly in Firefox. Very sad to see that Chrome 101 == IE6.

by kyle_martin1on 5/14/22, 3:29 AM

Managed to make a massive cursor and it was broadcasted to the whole party. Had some fun hacking this with Chrome dev tools.

Was simple as breakpointing in dev tools on "mousewheel", setting h.scale = 15, and then resuming. Massive cursor and massive fun. I'm sure people were wondering how I got mine so big. Considering it was clamped to 1.

I've thought about injecting a non-zero number to crash the app or perhaps inject some XSS to run some fun code on everyone's machine but...I decided to be nice and not literally crash the party. ;-)

All that's needed to fix this "exploit" is to properly sanitize data on the way in. Classic example of why sanitizing I/O is important!

All in all-- fun app OP.