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Re: Show HN: IndieFeeds.com, HN clone where submissions come from personal websites

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Post by mdoliwa »

manx wrote: post #12

Which voting algorithm are you using? I recently wrote an article about that topic and working on part 2: https://felx.me/2021/08/29/improving-the-hacker-news-ranking... Happy to help if you want to talk about it.

Not sure where I found it, but I have it coded like this:

scope :ranked, -> { select('posts.*, ((posts.upvotes_count + 1) / POWER(EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM (NOW() - posts.published_at)), 1.8)) AS rank').order('rank DESC') }

Re: Show HN: IndieFeeds.com, HN clone where submissions come from personal websites

#14

Post by manx »

mdoliwa wrote: post #13
manx wrote: post #12

Which voting algorithm are you using? I recently wrote an article about that topic and working on part 2: https://felx.me/2021/08/29/improving-the-hacker-news-ranking... Happy to help if you want to talk about it.

Not sure where I found it, but I have it coded like this: scope :ranked, -> { select('posts.*, ((posts.upvotes_count + 1) / POWER(EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM (NOW() - posts.published_at)), 1.8)) AS rank').order('rank DESC') }

That's almost the HN formula. Make sure your age is calculated as hours.

Re: Show HN: IndieFeeds.com, HN clone where submissions come from personal websites

#15

Post by phgn »

mdoliwa wrote: post #2

Hi, IndieFeeds is a HN clone, where submissions come from personal websites only. For now I add feeds manually while reading HN. If I see submission coming from personal website I check if it uses RSS and in case it does, I add it to IndieFeeds.com. So now HN works as a filter of content for IndieFeeds :). Site is probably lacking some functionality, but for now I wanted to share it with you and see what you think ab…

Interesting idea! There are so many great posts that otherwise get lost in the noise.

What is your main motivation for building IndieFeeds?

To get more activity onto the site, have you thought about including HN upvote counts & comments?

Re: Show HN: IndieFeeds.com, HN clone where submissions come from personal websites

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Post by mdoliwa »

phgn wrote: post #15
mdoliwa wrote: post #2

Hi, IndieFeeds is a HN clone, where submissions come from personal websites only. For now I add feeds manually while reading HN. If I see submission coming from personal website I check if it uses RSS and in case it does, I add it to IndieFeeds.com. So now HN works as a filter of content for IndieFeeds :). Site is probably lacking some functionality, but for now I wanted to share it with you and see what you think ab…

Interesting idea! There are so many great posts that otherwise get lost in the noise. What is your main motivation for building IndieFeeds? To get more activity onto the site, have you thought about including HN upvote counts & comments?

Good question, and I'm not sure what's the correct answer for this. Sometimes you just want to build something. I guess my main motivation was nostalgia for the times when I first discovered Internet (late 90s) and I remember it as a network of personal sites, usenet and irc :) Besides that I thought it's something people here on HN would like.

Re: Show HN: IndieFeeds.com, HN clone where submissions come from personal websites

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Post by derekzhouzhen »

Very nice. I think you need to decide what is the main point of your site. is it an alternative way to read HN? Is is a curated edition of HN? or is it going to be something on its own eventually, and HN is only a method to jump start it?

Re: Show HN: IndieFeeds.com, HN clone where submissions come from personal websites

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Post by ivanmontillam »

mdoliwa wrote: post #2

Hi, IndieFeeds is a HN clone, where submissions come from personal websites only. For now I add feeds manually while reading HN. If I see submission coming from personal website I check if it uses RSS and in case it does, I add it to IndieFeeds.com. So now HN works as a filter of content for IndieFeeds :). Site is probably lacking some functionality, but for now I wanted to share it with you and see what you think ab…

Nice! How I can I add my feed? My website is my username, without the last "m" and dot com!
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