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Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

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Post by _madmax_ »

jefozabuss wrote: post #289
jjcm wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was it the "Daniel's Site" post? There's some weird interactions I'm finding with that iframe'd html upload and the history events.

As someone who dealt with payment iframes in SPAs I'm so happy I don't have to use any iframes nowadays. There are a few articles how you can "kind of track" when the iframe caused extra history entries then you need to increase your back navigation by the count of them, it was a mess back in the days so not sure how is it solved nowadays.

Today you can still use iframes but most gateways now provide a tokenization api that provides the form to produce the tokenized cc. Afaik tokenized cc isn't falling under PCI.

My big issues with iframes is the checkout process which inevitably has to make callbacks to your api with the results of the transaction. If you're behind any sort of firewall (like most businesses are) you're in for a world of http pain.

Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

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Post by ric2b »

kokanee wrote: post #260
jjcm wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

100% agree with everything said here. My original plan was to pay for ~100 users accounts and seed the site with content for a proper launch. Given what's happening today though, it felt at least pertinent to show off the current state and get some feedback. The balance between splash page on landing / landing on content is a hard one, but I think you're right. I am worried though that without conveying the initial b…

An idea I mull over occasionally: what if you could spend your karma points to boost any given post? This would ultimately be another form of paid advertising, except that the currency used would be earned by contributing to the community. Then, allow people to sell their karma points for fiat currency. Companies would buy karma points directly from users in order to promote their self-promotional posts, but those po…

This has been tried in the cryptocurrency space, people start faking accounts to upvote their content and make money.

So basically what already happens with reddit/twitter/etc but amplified because you give them a direct financial incentive to upvote low effort crap.

Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

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Post by johnnyanmac »

CM30 wrote: post #319
idiotsecant wrote: post #32

The idea of posters getting real money instead of fake internet points when their posts do well seems interesting, but maybe an unintentional experiment in unintended consequences. Moderation will be extremely important to prevent low-effort memes and content regurgitation and the like from saturating your main channels. Have you considered how you will encourage moderation and keep it free from the corrosive influen…

Yeah, earning money for posting on a service like this sounds good at first, but it's often a magnet for folks that don't really care about contributing to the platform beyond that. These usually fall into 2 categories: 1. Hustlers and schemers, who want to get rich quick (usually the folks that like spam, blackhat SEO and 'hustle culture'). 2. Folks in 3rd world countries who see this as a ticket out of poverty. The…

>Having it also cost money to use the site will help a bit, but it'll also filter out many good users due to not wanting to spend money on a subscription

from my experience, there will be a LOT more ne'er do wells being filtered than good users. Not because there aren't a lot of good users, but simply because there are a lot more low effort ne'er do wells attracted to internet forums.

Other users can still browse at the very least. I think this will capture that nice medium of "good user who doesn't mind a little incentive". Because ofc the highest quality users aren't posting their ideas on public forums at all

Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

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Post by synicalx »

SkyMarshal wrote: post #50
root_axis wrote: post #36

Congrats on the hard work, and the idea is fine, but the problem is that tech like this is a cheap commodity in a massively oversaturated space, and without a hook that makes the platform exceptional (innovative/clever/beautiful design, unique aggregation features, inherently interesting content, reimagined user/content/moderation dynamics etc etc), this kind of thing is dead in the water because it lacks a network e…

Mostly agree. The screenshot in the top right looks good, like professional app I might actually use. But I want to actually browse the site and check it out without first slogging through a registration process. If it’s free to view/browse anyway, then enable doing that without registering. Register and pay if you want to post. Edit: You can browse without registering after all, here’s the link: https://non.io/#all…

Aaanndd it's instantly overrun with spam

Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

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Post by poopsmithe »

I gotta point out a UI issue on account registration. Firefox generated a random password for me, and filled in the password fields. When I clicked the Create Account button, the button changed to red, and shook as if to say, "NO." There was no message indicating the problem.

I had to retry with my dev tools open to see that the response code from the request triggered by clicking Create Account contained a message about username, e-mail, and password being required.

This error was presented even though I had all fields with valid data, and I was unable to create an account until I manually edited both password fields, which I had not dirtied myself previously.

Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

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Post by gremlinsinc »

jjcm wrote: post #84
root_axis wrote: post #36

Congrats on the hard work, and the idea is fine, but the problem is that tech like this is a cheap commodity in a massively oversaturated space, and without a hook that makes the platform exceptional (innovative/clever/beautiful design, unique aggregation features, inherently interesting content, reimagined user/content/moderation dynamics etc etc), this kind of thing is dead in the water because it lacks a network e…

100% agree with everything said here. My original plan was to pay for ~100 users accounts and seed the site with content for a proper launch. Given what's happening today though, it felt at least pertinent to show off the current state and get some feedback. The balance between splash page on landing / landing on content is a hard one, but I think you're right. I am worried though that without conveying the initial b…

you should try and get an API that has full parity with Reddit, an app that does that will replace Reddit because all third party apps simply need to change urls for Reddit to your domain.

Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

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Post by d10486fa91eb46 »

> 1. Free to browse, paid to interact.

This is exactly what I have been pondering recently about maintaining a website with useful content not prone to some of the problems we are seeing from all of the "free to interact" websites. Only serious contributors would pay for the ability to aggregate and interact with a community.

Thank you for your work on this, will be looking into this further.

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