The visuals are generated and manipulated in real time by Weirdcode, an artist who has been working with Aphex Twin for years now. He gave a lecture a couple of years ago where he explained his work process [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0vrrTQFCjA

Funny this is popping up today. I was just listening to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech [1] this morning. Beautiful text on the role and responsibilities of artists in our societies.

[1] https://www.openculture.com/2013/11/on-his-100th-birthday-he...

I will always remember him in Bruce Lee's Game of Death

It seems to be made with Substack [1]

[1] https://substack.com/

Thanks for your feedback Pedro!

> receive an email about the discussion of the day (or RSS?) Noted! I'll look into implementing something like that in the short future. That will be an opted-out feature by default so feel free to follow the platform updates on twitter ( @aco_le )

> it would be cool to search previous discussions. Maybe add some tags? Like #classic, #modern, #picasso, and so on. The possibility to see previous discussions have been requested a couple of times in the comments here on HN so I'll have to decide on that as well. Some people enjoy the "just for the day" angle of the website.

Thanks Maxime! I was looking for a new way to discuss art. There are a couple of nice subreddits to discover new art but I found the discussions that went with them a bit disappointing. So with Peerdiem, I'd like people to take their time (a day) to observe, reflect and share their thoughts about the artwork. Congrats with the Birdy.so launch! Hopefully the free trials convert in a week :)

I was not aware of the term used in that context. I just recently heard it in an episode of The Office when they fly to Winnipeg and it caught my ear. I might move the platform to a subdomain like art.peerdiem.com at some stages. Thanks for you feedback, and let me know if you have any other suggestions about the website. I hope to see there!

Glad you enjoyed it! I really wanted a minimalist interface so that the artwork is the real focal point. I'm looking forward to chatting with you on the platform!

That would be a big win for me if people feel this way. I'm delighted with the comments the artwork is getting so far, great insights from everyone! I will check the logs in the morning (UTC timezone here) and will get to the bottom of this.

Thank you for making it your browser startpage, that's flattering!

Regarding the previous discussions, for now I'd like to try having only the artwork and the discussion for the current day. It goes against what most content platforms are proposing today with all the unlimited feeds everywhere but I feel it's a good way for people to take the time to reflect on the artwork and get deeper conversations.

All the previous comments are stored in a db at the moment so if the community grows and would like to access the previous discussions, that's feasible.

Regarding the spam issue, posting a comment currently requires creating an account (although without any email verification afterwards at the moment for the HN launch as I know many people here can be held back from trying out when the signup process is too intrusive).

There's also a minimum word limit for the comments to encourage constructive discussions and not just comments of the type - "Nice colours", "Love it", "That's not art".

Finally, I hope that being quite niche to art lovers, that might prevent too many spammy comments. We'll see!

I appreciate the "just the current day" angle, but would gently remind about timezones. A 24-hour rotation isn't super friendly towards people who are online at the edges of that window. You might consider keeping a viewable archive of yesterday, just so one always has time to go back and see comments/replies.

Thanks for your feedback, I just thought about the timezones last night. I will pass the client's date while fetching the artwork of the day so that everyone get the full 24h lapse.

For the read only archives, I can see from the comments on HN that it has been requested a couple of times but some people also seem to enjoy the "just the current day" angle as well so I'll have to decide on that.

You should have an archives page where we can see earlier paintings with closed comments.

Completely disagree. I love the contrast of this platform vs other social medias. The focus is on the moment, the current discussion. There is no infinite scrolling and timesuck. Also, not recording historical comments makes contributions more authentic. Nobody's trying to get a comment that will go down in platform history. It's like a real conversation. It exists in your memory. I think this minimalism and focus the main reason I really like this site.