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When you visit the site, you'll see a small strip populated by stick figures. \nEach figure represents another visitor currently browsing the website. \nYou can see what page people are reading, walk around and send messages. \nFor example, you could see someone reading the same article as you and start a discussion about it. The goal wasn't to build another social network. It was to bring back a small feeling that the web used to have: the sense that there are actual people on the other side of the screen. Town Square is intentionally tiny and forgetful. \nThere are no accounts, no profiles, no follower counts, no permanent chat history. \nMessages exist only while people are there to read them. After several people asked me how they could add this to their own websites, I decided to open source it and provide a public server, so anyone can easily integrate Town Square into their site with no self-hosting required.\nI hope it encourages a few more websites to feel like places instead of pages. If you would like to host it yourself, fork it or contribute with the project, the repo is (https://github.com/cauenapier/TownSquare/) https://github.com/cauenapier/TownSquare/ If you don't want to (or don't know how to) host it yourself, you can register your website on (https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/) Town Square . I have a lot of ideas for what I could to next. It has been a fun, relaxing, small project so far. 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