# Ascii Collab: Progress update!

**URL:** <https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/ascii-collab-progress-update/7019>\
**Category:** Show and Tell\
**Created:** [February 28, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/ascii-collab-progress-update/7019 "2021-02-28T14:55:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![MartinS](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.elm-lang.org/martins/32/3137_2.png) [@MartinS](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/MartinS)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/ascii-collab-progress-update/7019/1 "2021-02-28T14:55:47Z")

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![top cat](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/elm_lang/original/2X/3/337b283512b33c1673e61ea5ac8c5dad4e847be8.png)

 ![ascii-collab](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/elm_lang/original/2X/0/0e4f16ba8cb4d48d51f64b17d1c8d3a8b9ecafc9.png)

5 months ago [I presented an app](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/ascii-collab-draw-ascii-art-together-on-an-infinite-canvas/6273) that lets you draw ascii art with other people. It had the basics like undo/redo, copy/paste, and box selection.

I’ve made progress since then. The most notable of which is that I, [with the help of many other people,](https://ascii-collab.lamdera.app/?x=980&y=193) drew enough ascii art to fill a poster sized region!

 ![poster-irl](https://ascii-collab.lamdera.app/poster-irl.jpg) (Here’s the raw poster image [https://ascii-collab.lamdera.app/poster.png](https://ascii-collab.lamdera.app/poster.png))

Other new features are:

- Ascii Collab detects hyperlinks and lets you click on them (though only for whitelisted websites)
- [Email notifications](https://ascii-collab.lamdera.app/notify-me)
- A bot user that draws a [heatmap](https://ascii-collab.lamdera.app/?x=849&y=-54) and [character usage statistics](https://ascii-collab.lamdera.app/?x=1112&y=-53) on the poster every 3 hours.

Lastly, I want to thank @supermario for creating Lamdera. Without it, I probably wouldn’t have gotten this far.

![enjoy](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/elm_lang/original/2X/3/3192d976296a4fb88e2e9c51e54fc0c846141b36.png)  
 ![bottom cat](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/elm_lang/original/2X/e/e4c1613a37407a57fcefa939b1d21d4b870d87ac.png)

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**Author:** ![Janiczek](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.elm-lang.org/janiczek/32/4516_2.png) [@Janiczek](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/Janiczek)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2021, 7:26am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/ascii-collab-progress-update/7019/2 "2021-03-01T07:26:58Z")

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It’s really fascinating, and I’m jealous of the poster - it brings me 90s/00s nostalgia 🙂  
You have a talented bunch in the ascii-collab community!

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**Author:** ![MartinS](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.elm-lang.org/martins/32/3137_2.png) [@MartinS](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/MartinS)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2021, 8:26am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/ascii-collab-progress-update/7019/3 "2021-03-01T08:26:57Z")

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Thank you! Interesting that you mention that, someone else commented [here](https://ascii-collab.lamdera.app/?x=-19&y=13) with “this site is so aggressively and wonderfully early 2000’s internet in the best ways I could imagine”. I’m guessing the website evokes the feeling of a really clunky to use message board.

Also you’re welcome to print your own copy of the poster 😃

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/elm_lang/original/1X/50a05e53677a2c3b47776d7abd0f113eb50193a1.png) [@system](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 8:27am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/ascii-collab-progress-update/7019/4 "2021-03-11T08:27:29Z")

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