Show HN: I built Drudge Report style news aggregator
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Show HN: I built Drudge Report style news aggregator
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#2FYI: DrudgeReport design stand the test of time as the site is almost 20 years old without much changes. I am surprised how little similar sites are there to aggregate news in simple one-page style. I am thinking of open sourcing the code altogether with admin panel so that others can build their own sites, be it gossips report or even technology aggregator news site. We do have HN of course but the form is somewhat different.
Let me know how I can make the site even better.
Re: Show HN: I built Drudge Report style news aggregator
#3Great work, looks nice! Earned a bookmark.
Re: Show HN: I built Drudge Report style news aggregator
#4Great work, looks nice! Earned a bookmark.
Thank you. I plan to moderate it for now myself. Obvious question everyone asking when I show friends/family: are you Trump's friend or a foe. Its exactly reason why I build the site, because these days every news site/agency seems to have an agenda pro- or against-.
When I review the feed for the news I do not ask myself a question if this piece will put Trump Admin in good or bad light. If the news seems newsworthy and source is somewhat reliable and article does a decent job explaining itself, then I post it.
Re: Show HN: I built Drudge Report style news aggregator
#5Fantastic idea and execution. Now I can dissolve nearly 95% of my rss feed on this subject matter.
Thanks for the website...it's going to be a wicked year!
Re: Show HN: I built Drudge Report style news aggregator
#6Fantastic idea and execution. Now I can dissolve nearly 95% of my rss feed on this subject matter. Thanks for the website...it's going to be a wicked year!
Thank you. I don't think the site needs RSS feed itself as its just 100% of other sites' content, but its fun and challenge to go through so much material updated daily and pickup real news versus fake, propaganda and obvious lies.
I would appreciate sharing the site with your friends or family - addThis app is built into the bottom of the right column.
Re: Show HN: I built Drudge Report style news aggregator
#7Fantastic idea and execution. Now I can dissolve nearly 95% of my rss feed on this subject matter. Thanks for the website...it's going to be a wicked year!
Thank you. I don't think the site needs RSS feed itself as its just 100% of other sites' content, but its fun and challenge to go through so much material updated daily and pickup real news versus fake, propaganda and obvious lies. I would appreciate sharing the site with your friends or family - addThis app is built into the bottom of the right column.
Are you scraping these headlines? Talk a bit on the development. I wanted to make something similar for a science based subject and I was simply going to use rss.
Re: Show HN: I built Drudge Report style news aggregator
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you. I don't think the site needs RSS feed itself as its just 100% of other sites' content, but its fun and challenge to go through so much material updated daily and pickup real news versus fake, propaganda and obvious lies. I would appreciate sharing the site with your friends or family - addThis app is built into the bottom of the right column.
Are you scraping these headlines? Talk a bit on the development. I wanted to make something similar for a science based subject and I was simply going to use rss.
Sure.
From Dev site its a simple LAMP stack with CodeIgniter simply because its pleasure to work with and its just fun. If the site would ever get serious traffic I would simply plug Cloudflare and wouldn't worry about optimizing my simple PHP code.
In terms of articles, I'm using inoreader.com with feeds related to News, both US + World. Inoreader lets me download articles via JSON, then I search through them and decide which one to publish. Sometimes I alter headlines, but not to drive an agenda, but rather to feed the narrative, like if first article is about Trump, second one doesn't need to have his name in the title anymore; you can simply follow without mentioning his name.
Example re: National Archives:
- National Archives exhibit blurs images critical of President Trump...
- Forced to apologize for blurring anti-Trump rally signs...
So second article doesn't need the National Archives being mentioned.
Here is a simple admin panel screenshot: https://ibb.co/yPQ0XZz
Re: Show HN: I built Drudge Report style news aggregator
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you scraping these headlines? Talk a bit on the development. I wanted to make something similar for a science based subject and I was simply going to use rss.
Sure. From Dev site its a simple LAMP stack with CodeIgniter simply because its pleasure to work with and its just fun. If the site would ever get serious traffic I would simply plug Cloudflare and wouldn't worry about optimizing my simple PHP code. In terms of articles, I'm using inoreader.com with feeds related to News, both US + World. Inoreader lets me download articles via JSON, then I search through them and de…
What I like about the aspect of a site like this, and especially the process of curation (I believe Drudge does the same), has to do with the headline writing. This has got to be one of the better practices of becoming a better headline writer I've seen other than actually writing professional ads.
For copywriters, this practice is invaluable.