I posted this in a new thread to get away from all the flag business.
Apart from the obvious tagging and logo plastering, the drawball has some interesting social aspects. Scrolling along its surface is like walking around an MMORPG with a living, breathing world instead of static, generated terrain buildings. The user interface has a marked influence on what is put on the drawball, with a lot of it being circular art pieces made by filling the visible canvas at the closest zoom level. A few pieces are clearly intended to be viewed from the second or third zoom level.
It's by no means the first public graffitti board, even on this scale. The interface is the most streamlined so far however, with the multiple intelligence checks and limited ink preventing casual mass vandalism.
The drawball site itself is minimalistic, without registration, forums or any easy way for users to interact or communicate outside of the ball unless they already know people from other online places or real life.
There is a certain anonymous elitism to the drawball. Apparently, the person or persons running the site will hand out infinite ink to those they deem worthy. There are also theories on making the ink refill faster ranging from not emptying it to maintaining a certain schedule of use.
>The interface is the most streamlined so far however,
really?
then perhaps you could tell me why it has never worked for me, on freebsd, linux, or windows xp, with the most recent versions of flash player for each...
Did you try Firefox? Works in 1.0.7. on Win2kSP3. Do you mean it doesn't load or you get an error message or crash?
I do remember a bug when tried it on possibly Opera or IE, where I had to open the multiplayer pong link in a new window before it would load.
>Did you try Firefox?
yes. i tried firefox 1.5.1 on linux and windows xp.
>Do you mean it doesn't load or you get an error message or crash?
it doesn't load.
>I do remember a bug when tried it on possibly Opera or IE, where I had to open the multiplayer pong link in a new window before it would load.
just tried that on freebsd (amd64, latest linux opera weekly and flash player 7)... the multiplayer pong thing doesn't load either, and drawball still doesn't load)...
Is your IP static? Maybe it or a range including it was banned.
>>5
yeah, it's static...
if my ip was banned, would i be able to see the page and download the swf file? i can do that, but flashplayer fails for some reason.
also, i noticed the linux-flashplugin ports were removed recently "because the End User License Agreement explicitly forbids to run the Flash Player on FreeBSD."
looks like i'm never going to buy anything from adobe/macromedia now.
>The interface is the most streamlined so far however,
The most, maybe, but that doesn't mean it is actually very streamlined. It's actually horribly clunky to use.
>>6
That's why I don't even try to use binary only software to begin with.