For more transparency and for an experiment, I decided to play with showing your distance to the post within the proximity system.

Personally, I think it looks a little busy. But in this case, I'm playing around also with something I want to do more of. Code in features that automatically turn off after a period of time. Then, if there is demand to turn it back on, we can do that. So the code that does this turns off after two days.

The numbers do show an odd detail about how the spatial system works. One problem with relative distances is that numbers can explode when you get really close, as a multiple of other distances. It's not uncommon for some spatial simulations to add a small number inside the square root to limit how small a distance can get. So you'll notice no distance is less than one.

This added one isn't just a static though. It's actually tied to a differen aspect. Every post also has an "error dimension." This is the spatial equivalent of a downvote state. When the site started as a prototype, posts didn't even have scores. Everything was purely spatial. When you vote for something, your user and the post get closer. When you downvote something, they get further away. This means if you are in a regional cohort, you and users near you can downvote something and push it away to a group that might appreciate it more. But what if that group doesn't like it either? Then it would be good if it could be near none of them. So when you downvote, something can also get pushed in this extra dimension.

Because it is spatial, this has the added benefit that if something is far, it doesn't get spatially downvoted as hard and is mostly just pushed away. That's fine. The post isn't bad. It's just not for them, which we already partially knew because of the distance.

Also, it only works on the front page because I don't feel like modifying all the different page handlers for this.

Bonus fact: Your posting position and viewing position can be different. They used to be the same. But then I realized that what someone likes and what someone posts can be different things. Now your posting position is the average of the final position of your last few posts.