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Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by jcims »

throwaway1777 wrote: post #22
npo9 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the most important aspect of a community is its members. Reddit, Facebook, etc have all tried hard to grow their communities and have reduced the quality of them as they increased the headcount. The best communities don’t strive for the hockey stick growth.

Reddit and Facebook are not a single community, they are many communities some of which have a very high bar for quality, and some of which are a free for all that tends toward low quality memes and trolling.

I found that removing any community of more than 100K subscribers from my reddit experience made it much more tolerable.

In the old design you could go to /r/subredditname/comments and see an ordered list of comments regardless of which post they were associated with. It really livened things up and let you track the conversations going on given that there wern't that many new posts in a given day. That's gone with the new design unfortunately.

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by tiredyam »

comnetxr wrote: post #50

I had an idea for a minimal change to improve a Reddit-like site, perhaps you will find it interesting: split the concept of "subreddit" into "tags" and "communities". Tags: much of the content of Reddit is people reposting the same thing at various times to various subreddits, and many of the comments are people noticing that it fits into "r/whatever" instead. The default behavior should be that posts of the same li…

Sorry to break it to you but Reddit has this already

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by el_dev_hell »

icedchai wrote: post #24
el_dev_hell wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This used to be a lot easier. Now reddit doesn't let you create an account without an email (and most burner email tools are blocked like https://www.mailinator.com/ .

Actually it does. Just hit "next" when it prompts for an email. I just created another account 30 seconds ago, no email required.

Huh.. Thanks for the tip!

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by el_dev_hell »

dpah wrote: post #25
el_dev_hell wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This used to be a lot easier. Now reddit doesn't let you create an account without an email (and most burner email tools are blocked like https://www.mailinator.com/ .

They are employing a dark pattern to make it seem that way, but it isn't so. You can just click "next" without actually entering an email. But there is no indication that the field is optional.

Just tried it and you're right. TIL reddit is almost Facebook.

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by cc-d »

yes hello site's creator here

there were a ton of technical issues earlier that are now 'mostly' fixed

in terms of the nsfw content, the index page is basically /r/all without nsfw. marking something as nsfw in a sfw sub hides the thumbnail.

this was posted here while i was sleeping... i went to bed thinking nobody had noticed my previous post and wasn't being attentive. the original post i made to Show Hn was 15 hours ago... I'm guessing a mod 'refreshed' this?

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by mehhh »

djsumdog wrote: post #49
JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #33

How will you avoid- > John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory was proposed in the Penny Arcade (web comic) on March 19, 2004 by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. It says that when a normal person is allowed anonymity and an audience, they lose social inhibitions and act inappropriately. If anything, the last decade has taught us the immutability of this law. Usernames and comment history seem to help somewhat w…

Be careful if you're at work. There's already porn on this thing in some of the Imgur links. I miss the late 90s when you had a lot of small, independent websites. Sure there was always a war against spammers and scripts, but I feel like you could find more independent content from individuals instead of these big link aggregation platforms (remember web-rings?) There is more to think about today when making somethin…

Hosts of ActivityPub based platforms have all kinds of troubles with users and instances that are abusive and/or datamining.

Thing is, the instances are generally small and good admins communicate, dropping known abusive IPs and reaching out to server hosts when abusive instances violate local laws like the CFAA.

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by cc-d »

djsumdog wrote: post #49
JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #33

How will you avoid- > John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory was proposed in the Penny Arcade (web comic) on March 19, 2004 by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. It says that when a normal person is allowed anonymity and an audience, they lose social inhibitions and act inappropriately. If anything, the last decade has taught us the immutability of this law. Usernames and comment history seem to help somewhat w…

Be careful if you're at work. There's already porn on this thing in some of the Imgur links. I miss the late 90s when you had a lot of small, independent websites. Sure there was always a war against spammers and scripts, but I feel like you could find more independent content from individuals instead of these big link aggregation platforms (remember web-rings?) There is more to think about today when making somethin…

Captcha option has been implemented since before release, just disabled.It is enabled now.

Content marked as "nsfw" will not show up in the default index page, and nsfw posts in sfw subs will have the thumbnail hidden.

This was 'resubmitted' here when I was sleeping. I woke up to a site I left misconfigured being flooded with people lol.

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