Hello from Orkut • Hacker News Board

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by drdaeman » Fri, Aug 05, 2016, 11:38 AM UTC

themihai wrote: post #20

prajjwal wrote: post #13

Orkut was our go-to social network as teens, before we all moved to Facebook in 2009. I'm was going to join this out of sheer nostalgia, but it appears to be lacking a web app. I'm curious as to why they went with ONLY native Android / iOS apps. That will not only drive away people like me, who prefer to use things from a desktop web browser, but also people in developing countries who might not have access to a smar…

People use mobile more than desktop on social apps so it makes a lot of sense. Eventually there will be a web/desktop version as well(if it catches on). Shortly said mobile web sucks so a native app is better than a broken website.

Doesn't it suck for anything but simplest forms of communication?

I mean, I just can't stand touch-typing anything but very short messages. Whenever there's any conversation that involves more typing than posting a meme picture and replying with "lol" I run for a real terminal, with a real physical keyboard.

I don't know about others, but for me being significantly slowed down with typing is frustrating. And I hope to believe I'm not an outstandingly slow with touchscreen keyboards...

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by type0 » Fri, Aug 05, 2016, 11:39 AM UTC

tinco wrote: post #8

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 Face…

> How are the community members connected to eachother?

Good question, is it tied to phone number or email adress?

I wish someone would do the social network that is crossbred between indieweb and diaspora/friendica, that would seem like the way forward at least.

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by Aaron1011 » Fri, Aug 05, 2016, 11:40 AM UTC

For some reason, orkut.com is serving an SSL certificate for hello.com (the new social network the site is referring to).

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by type0 » Fri, Aug 05, 2016, 11:41 AM UTC

themihai wrote: post #25

dijit wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Based on nothing more than 30seconds looking at the page, it seems to be attempting to connect strangers via common interests than by being a facebook clone which connects already established friends.

Google+ already tried that. Why do they beat a death horse?

Ex-googlers stuck in the same mindset, is it that strange though?

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by grenoire » Fri, Aug 05, 2016, 11:43 AM UTC

The gamification seems really unnecessary for a social network. It may improve retention rates, but only for a very small demographic (that I'm definitely not a part of).

The consensus in the comments seems to be that there are some other bad decisions that went into it too...

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by manuelleduc » Fri, Aug 05, 2016, 11:45 AM UTC

timje1 wrote: post #12

mikkom wrote: post #3

> We even got married and had kids because of orkut. This has a totally different meaning in finnish as orkut means "orgasms" in casual speak.

Wait, so the guy's name means orgasms? Oh dear oh dear. This must cause problems for Turkish men in Finland. Kind of like the unfortunate Indian family name Dikshit.

AFAIK it might be more common than you think. I have a female friend who's firstname is Fanny and another one who's lastname is Cocq. They both expect a few laugh when they introduce themselves in english speaking countries.

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by 0xmohit » Fri, Aug 05, 2016, 11:47 AM UTC

How many apps can one have on a phone? Or how many would one want to have?

Each app would keep running its background processes and such; keep draining battery.

Maybe people don't bother checking what permissions does an app want; from reading your contacts to stuff on the SD card.

Nonetheless, it's intriguing to see that people still see room for new social networks.

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by mtgx » Fri, Aug 05, 2016, 11:48 AM UTC

Getting a certificate error here. I'm using HTTPS Everywhere. So I assume they didn't anticipate people using the HTTPS version of the site, and misconfigured it?

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by dingaling » Fri, Aug 05, 2016, 11:48 AM UTC

f_allwein wrote: post #4

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.

And the "passions" seem to be very coarse. Photographer, baseball fan...

I can see those bogging-down like the genetic Twitter hash-tags. Can you imagine trying to follow #photography?

Re: Hello from Orkut

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Post by netsharc » Fri, Aug 05, 2016, 11:50 AM UTC

prajjwal wrote: post #13

Orkut was our go-to social network as teens, before we all moved to Facebook in 2009. I'm was going to join this out of sheer nostalgia, but it appears to be lacking a web app. I'm curious as to why they went with ONLY native Android / iOS apps. That will not only drive away people like me, who prefer to use things from a desktop web browser, but also people in developing countries who might not have access to a smar…

Mobile app means access (due to broken permission systems) to a user's contact, location, mic and camera. Also, captive web browser (user clicks a web link and that web page gets shown inside the app, instead of on the phone's own browser) means the app can track what sites you visit and for how long ("Dear buzzfeed.com, would you like to buy our stats for visits to your website?").