[HN Gopher] Show HN: I made a competitive debating game(like che...
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       Show HN: I made a competitive debating game(like chess.com but for
       debating)
        
       Got tired of my debates with my friend's ending in "I'm right bc I
       said so" so I made a platform where you can debate with your
       friend's(or a bot, recently added feature) about whatever you want,
       and after the debate is done a LLM judges who's more sound in
       logic. Gain points and climb the leaderboard!  Feedback and
       criticism would be appreciated(there's a discord in there if you
       wanna talk more in depth)  p.s.: I decided to use google acc sign
       in since it makes the whole thing easier to manage(live chatroom
       feature, etc.). I don't actually do anything with your emails
        
       Author : fantajuice
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2025-08-04 21:07 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (crs-prod-rankeddebate-l4dnggfaca-nn.a.run.app)
 (TXT) w3m dump (crs-prod-rankeddebate-l4dnggfaca-nn.a.run.app)
        
       | fantajuice wrote:
       | Since there's prolly no active users on it rn, to test it u could
       | try the bot mode or ask a friend to debate with you :)
        
         | fantajuice wrote:
         | why is there 10 of u who made an acc and none are debating what
         | are u guys even doing on there is the ui not intuitive?
        
       | molyss wrote:
       | The idea seems very cool.
       | 
       | I didn't create an account because it's asking for my email
       | address when using my google account. Don't want more spam.
       | 
       | Also, some decisions seem more politically charged than
       | necessary, like using "Donal Trump" as an example of an "Easy"
       | debate opponent.
       | 
       | Finally, I don't know the SMS-style abbreviations are much
       | appreciated on HN (u for you is the most annoying example in your
       | introduction). I'm not sure why it's bothering me enough to tell
       | you about it...
        
         | fantajuice wrote:
         | I just chose the bot opponents randomly haha and I'll keep the
         | formalism on HN in mind.
        
       | CamperBob2 wrote:
       | Me: "Sites should not require account creation at a late stage of
       | initial engagement. Account requirements should be disclosed up
       | front to avoid wasting peoples' time."
       | 
       | Plato: "Yep, can't argue with that."
       | 
       | Einstein: "Indubitably."
       | 
       | Trump: "Covfefe"
        
         | fantajuice wrote:
         | Tump: China
         | 
         | so your only issue with it it's that it's asking for email?
         | What do you mean by late stage initial engagement?
        
       | splatzone wrote:
       | Is there a way to see some past debates? Would give me a flavour
       | of how the site works without having to sign up and wait for
       | someone to come online. Well done on releasing.
        
         | fantajuice wrote:
         | kind of, you can see live debates that people are having(though
         | none happened). But the server reloads whenever no one's online
         | for a bit and it wipes the sqlite file clean(cheap servers
         | right now) which also wipes away all the old debates
        
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