I imagine AI could sort through various web sources and come up with a feed of relevant content to satiate your hunger that HH does not fulfill.
Show HN: FollowDev, HH-like forum exclusively for software dev-related topics
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Re: Show HN: FollowDev, HH-like forum exclusively for software dev-related topics
#12Have you thought about classifying HN posts and then displaying them in some alternative frontend for your use case? Then you don't have the cold-start problem and can benefit from the discussions already happening here. Could even be a browser extension. Seems a lot more realistic than trying to create a niche community out of an existing niche community.
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Re: Show HN: FollowDev, HH-like forum exclusively for software dev-related topics
#13Have you thought about classifying HN posts and then displaying them in some alternative frontend for your use case? Then you don't have the cold-start problem and can benefit from the discussions already happening here. Could even be a browser extension. Seems a lot more realistic than trying to create a niche community out of an existing niche community.
Yeah, there's a couple email newsletters that do this.
- TLDR (https://tldr.tech/) - Quastor (https://www.quastor.org/) - Pointer.io (https://www.pointer.io/) etc.
I believe someone also developed a chrome extension for HN that would let you filter out the non-engineering related content but can't remember the name right now.
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#14The title says 'HH-like forum' so I came here to understand what 'HH' stands for. Seems a typo?
> The title says 'HH-like forum' so I came here to understand what 'HH' stands for. Seems a typo?
Same here.
Not sure why OP thinks HN is full of politics and business (whatever that means) content.
Re: Show HN: FollowDev, HH-like forum exclusively for software dev-related topics
#15A 13 day old account that tries to fork off the HN audience to their own website? Flagged regardless of merit, if HN isn't for you then that's fine but don't try to hijack the forum.
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#16A 13 day old account that tries to fork off the HN audience to their own website? Flagged regardless of merit, if HN isn't for you then that's fine but don't try to hijack the forum.
There’s nothing wrong with this. People are always coming up with HN for this or that.
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#17A 13 day old account that tries to fork off the HN audience to their own website? Flagged regardless of merit, if HN isn't for you then that's fine but don't try to hijack the forum.
There’s nothing wrong with this. People are always coming up with HN for this or that.
If a long standing member would do this, fine. But a novelty account whose first action is to try to fork the community is wrong in my opinion. And I'm fine with you disagreeing with that.
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#18Neat idea! If I recall correctly, this was the same frustration that Lobsters[1] was created. In the case of Lobsters, moderation decision have carefully been considered and implemented. My two cents is that it's when it comes to comments - and moderation - that things get challenging. It's also where both HN and Lobsters managed to find a (hopefully) sustainable model. Good luck with this! [1] https://lobste.rs
The main reason lobsters isn’t very interesting to me is it tends to be a subset of HN.
I’d find it more interesting if it didn’t have the same posts.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s nothing wrong with this. People are always coming up with HN for this or that.
If a long standing member would do this, fine. But a novelty account whose first action is to try to fork the community is wrong in my opinion. And I'm fine with you disagreeing with that.
Meh. There’s no chance it will succeed in forking the community, so it’s just another thing in the HN Cabinet of Curiosities.
Re: Show HN: FollowDev, HH-like forum exclusively for software dev-related topics
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
If a long standing member would do this, fine. But a novelty account whose first action is to try to fork the community is wrong in my opinion. And I'm fine with you disagreeing with that.
Meh. There’s no chance it will succeed in forking the community, so it’s just another thing in the HN Cabinet of Curiosities.
all true altho its pretty rough if a new member’s first experience with HN and perhaps sharing of an idea is flagging and rejection. maybe we shouldnt ascribe to malice an innocent attempt to build for a need they perceive to be missing (imitation is the sincerest form of flattery)