bumblybox

Make a reddit post. Get bling if its length is a perfect square and a column or diagonal all has the same letter.

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What it does

Bumblybox is a reddit webviews game. You can view it on the zyxw7_sandbox2 subreddit. The app can also be viewed at its developer page on reddit.

Write the text of a post in the box. Press the check button to view your post in a grid. Get bling (a present icon) if the length of your post is a perfect square. Get additional bling if it is square and all the letters in a column or diagonal are the same. Longer posts get larger bling.

Inspiration

An acrostic is a text where the first letters of each line spell out a word or a message. I was thinking about acrostics when I came up bumblybox. Also, I like puzzles that give you a prize of some type, whether that prize is a picture, quote, or secret message. In this case, most messages don't get a prize. Some are special and you have a ribbon, vertically or diagonally, all of the same letter.

If I had more time...

I wanted to add more features, but I ran out of time to figure them out. Here are the features on my wish list:

  • As of now, when you press the Post button, the message as well as whether or not its length is square is sent to the back end. I think it would be cool for this webapp to actually generate a post that could be sent to a subreddit, possible with the bling attached. I didn't get very far with the reddit APIs. I know the back end, inside main.tsx, can call reddit APIs. I don't know if posting to a subreddit is allowed, if it requires an authentication step, or if I need to request separate access to use the reddit API's.
  • This webapp shows up in a reddit post. It would be cool if getting bling would also change the reddit post's flair. I think this is possible through reddit's API's. I set up flair for the subreddit I was practicing with. I also tried using automoderators to help with turning on the flair, but I didn't get it.
  • This webapp is intended to be used with text of message board posts, not random text. For that reason, I have a function to check if the message is just gibberish. As of now, this function is quite simple. It just checks to make sure there are a sufficient number of spaces, and it rejects text with a letter to space ratio that is too big. Additional checks could, and probably should, be included. For example, a check might be to make sure at least some words show up in a dictionary. However, the checks shouldn't be too strong. Including words from other languages or creative terminology should be allowed.

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