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Re: Ask HN: HN Alternatives?

#81
post #74

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"Once a week I spend a few minutes looking for new interesting subreddits. http://www.reddit.com/r/newreddits/ helps with that too." It seems pointless to subscribe to new subreddits since you don't know whether they'll have traction. How can you find 'trending' subreddits? Or am I thinking about this all wrong?

No negatives in adding subreddits that might not gain traction. Sometimes subreddits take a while to attract submitters.

I'm going to try that, thanks.

Re: Ask HN: HN Alternatives?

#82
post #7

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If you want the HN of 3 years ago, http://allyourstartuparebelongto.us/ is for you. I'm looking for a better domain name. Suggestions are welcome. I've been trying to get startup.co and techstartu.ps, but so far no luck. The submission/banning criteria is actionable startup advice for tech startup founders. Relevant tech is OK as long as it directly relates to or is obviously useful to startups. No news. And no polit…

tartups.com is available, so you can do what delicious did and have s.tartups.com

Taken! (not be me). For one second I was thinking of installing an hacker news like forum for startups.

Re: Ask HN: HN Alternatives?

#84

Simplest solution: add down-voting to submissions as well as comments. Then people can downvote the super off-topic and repeats.

It does not solve the community-drift problem.

Unless you keep raising karma thresholds for moderation and posting to keep the where-is-the-next-Digg crowd out.

Re: Ask HN: HN Alternatives?

#85
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I love browsing through a tons of different subreddits that have now matured and grown very interesting. In decreasing order of interest to me: http://www.reddit.com/r/somethingimade/ http://www.reddit.com/r/longtext/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ http://www.reddit.com/r/PhilosophyofScience/ http://www.reddit.com/r/cogsci/ http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/ http://www.reddit.com/r/math/ http://www.reddit.com/r/…

http://www.reddit.com/r/somethingimade+longtext+programming+... This will aggregate all of those subreddits in to a single view.

wow this looks surprisingly like hacker news, good choice, chime!

Re: Ask HN: HN Alternatives?

#86
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post #18

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If any of the subreddit starts to get too popular and mainstream, usually 2-3 new subreddits popup that are more specific and interesting. Bingo! I think this is the solution to the eternal September effect on communities. You get a super nice place like reddit when it was new and shiny and over time it gets taken over by trolls. So you move on to startup news , then hacker news , but soon that is filled with generic…

A subreddit's moderators can make all the difference in stopping trolls and keeping content on-topic.

Indeed, that could be known as the Slashdot approach.

Re: Ask HN: HN Alternatives?

#87
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tartups.com is available, so you can do what delicious did and have s.tartups.com

Taken! (not be me). For one second I was thinking of installing an hacker news like forum for startups.

looks like jmatt got it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jmatt

http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIs.aspx?domain=tartups.com&pro...

Re: Ask HN: HN Alternatives?

#88
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Please consider posting on aysabtu. I'm also a single founder and I'd really like to get more self posts going.

We also have a semi-active Single Founders Braintrust going. Let me know if you want to join. Great place to discuss and get feedback on early stuff.

Me too

Re: Ask HN: HN Alternatives?

#89
post #74

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No negatives in adding subreddits that might not gain traction. Sometimes subreddits take a while to attract submitters.

I'm going to try that, thanks.

Or if you know exactly what you are looking for you can search subreddits with.

http://www.subreddits.org/

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