Hello from Orkut

I thought just the other day "if only there was another social network I could use instead of Facebook (and convince my friends to join it)...", so seeing there's a new social network by the guy who made Orkut sounded like good news.

However, from the website, I'm not sure "connect with people and content around your passions" is what I want. I'll wait and see how this pans out.

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by captn3m0 » Fri, Aug 05, 2016, 10:59 AM UTC

The HTTPS version of the site presents a cert for hello.com, which breaks the site for me.

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by LeonM » Fri, Aug 05, 2016, 11:01 AM UTC

The new service is written in lowercase, and Orkut is the guys name, so the title should be: 'hello from Orkut'

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by newjersey » Fri, Aug 05, 2016, 11:03 AM UTC

Not my intention to bikeshedding but I think it is possible to change the configuration so the server has a valid certificate for Orkut.com and not just for hello.com

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by tinco » Fri, Aug 05, 2016, 11:04 AM UTC

Bold move to launch it without a web frontend. I browsed the 'best of' gallery which looks nice, but I haven't seen anything yet that would entice me to grab my phone and go through both a sign up and an app installation process.

From the outside it looks like a Reddit meets Imgur type of application, perhaps like Pinterest. None of those have really strong communities in my opinion, not as strong as for example Facebook friends are. How are the community members connected to eachother?

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by msoad » Fri, Aug 05, 2016, 11:07 AM UTC

I'm the age Of Snapchat and Instagram Stories I'm not sure how a Facebook clone can be successful

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by Steve0 » Fri, Aug 05, 2016, 11:08 AM UTC

Bit disappointing it's not available in my country.