I'm blaming it on a lack of originality that everyone's been working on a Reddit-like system for the last 2-4 years. But the real kicker is everyone announcing theirs today, with how many years they've been working on it in the subject.
Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
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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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It is essentially a perfect recipe for money laundering.
This would be the most inefficient way to launder money ever. You'd get at most 50% of the money you took in (realistically, more like 30-40% with taxes if you were transferring significant volume), and you'd have to have an active account that posted a lot of legitimate-sounding comments, and at least 10K sockpuppet accounts which you'd then need to script a way to upvote all the posts by the account you're intendin…
Agreed. It's way more efficient to sell $10,000 cabinets named "Julia" on Wayfair.
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#533The use of tags vs discrete communities keeps it from being a viable alternative to Reddit for me. I have a real disdain for tags for user generated content. Every site I have seen use tags I end up having to wade through a ton of spam or vaugly related content to whatever tag I am looking for. The only exception I can think of is Hashtags for twitter but that is due to the character limit. I understand that people s…
It's a hybrid model, and I'd be curious if people like this or not as it's been something I'm fiddling with. Note that when you vote, you upvote the tag itself. The vote within the tag determines its order when browsing the tag itself. So if something is tagged with #formula1 and has 483 upvotes for the tag, it will appear high in the #formula1 list view. If it's also tagged with #funny with 1 upvote, it will appear…
Out of interest if you vote for the same content multiple times (for its multiple tags), does that count as one vote or many in the payment calculation?
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
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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…
tweakers.net (a Dutch tech site that's been around since the 1998) allows you to spend your karma points in their Karmastore on things like custom-css, RSS-feeds in tracker and custom newsletter.
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
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> As it stands I don't make any money on this, I just do it for fun. But with a site like non.io there's no reason for me _not_ to post my content there. I’m obviously not targeting this at you but a business model likes this (paying fractions of a penny per upvote) is not likely to attract high quality content. In fact the opposite it incentives a quantity over quality approach (i.e. content has to be just good enou…
Niche groups, high quality content, users who don't upvote everything I think is the goal. Not up voting 100 cat videos or memes and then wishing you could upvote a post that really helps you out on something or leads to good discussion. I think it tries to place weight on your upvote to mean more than just ticking something up but remind you that you are putting your money into someone's else's pocket and has what t…
Exactly. Of course everyone used Reddit differently, but personally I basically never upvoted anything unless I really enjoyed it. The big question for me would be what happens to my funds if I don't upvote anyone in a given month, do they roll-over to the next month? Do they go to server management? Do they go into a separate pool to do something else fun with?
In a way Reddit did distinguish their usual "this content is better than the one below" upvote with "this is amazing content" by giving Reddit gold. A similar system could be used here. One thing that made Reddit great was that since people up (and maybe more importantly) downvoted content good stuff would float to the top. It would be pretty bad if upvotes where too meaningful as that would drive away engagement.
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#536Earlier quoted context omitted.
> As it stands I don't make any money on this, I just do it for fun. But with a site like non.io there's no reason for me _not_ to post my content there. I’m obviously not targeting this at you but a business model likes this (paying fractions of a penny per upvote) is not likely to attract high quality content. In fact the opposite it incentives a quantity over quality approach (i.e. content has to be just good enou…
What if there was a large button for upvote, and beside a smaller button for 100x upvote? Regular users can upvote 100 cat pictures for their dopamine hit, and when they find an ACTUALLY VALUABLE post they can look for the small button.
Like Reddit gold you mean? (before they created all these silly other awards)
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#537I searched for a random tag and it showed me all of the front page content.
Seems it's not allowed to simply return "Nothing found" anymore. I don't want blackbox algorithms serving me stuff it thinks I want.
I like the design. I like the domain. I don't understand grouping of content at all. People want siloed communities. If this is just tags, I'm not interested. Twitter had that and it was a nightmare.
EDIT: also, yeah. Parroting other answers. non.io should take me directly to content. I went there to take a look as I got home and it's... a marketing page, with no information (at least, from a cursory glance) as to how to get to the content.
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#538This is why you build a MVP and test it before working on it for 4 years
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I'm building https://linklonk.com which works this way - you get content ranked based on what you upvoted. This is to make the incentives for voting aligned and help prevent abuse. I think the problem with karma/reputation systems is that the source of karma are fungible - anyone's upvote has the same effect on the reputation. And this makes it gameable. A personalized system can solve this by replacing global reputa…
>Now it matters who upvoted - a random bot or a user whose past contributions have been useful to you. // In that system how do you create a ranked list of content for a user to browse? Isn't it going to be very heavy on processing demand?
You can do the processing in a worker. Maybe even offload it to the client. If there is a live stream a pretrained machine learning model could be used and it could infear who will like what
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#540The 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…
> maybe an unintentional experiment in unintended consequences Just charging $2 might be a huge improvement over reddit because it makes sock puppets cost too much to scale. Paying out for upvotes, I fear will incentivize lowest-common-denominator content. If you go to a quality tech subreddit and sort by "Top" comments, they will mostly be memes. They won't be from an expert solving your very specific problem. And m…
> If you go to a quality tech subreddit and sort by "Top" comments, they will mostly be memes. They won't be from an expert solving your very specific problem.
Wouldn't it be highly coincidental if the Top posts contain a solution to your specific problem.