Lobsters https://lobste.rs/
I enjoy reading Lobsters, but the invite-only nature of it has had me sidelined as a passive observer for years and that's frustrating.
How do you obtain an invite? That seems crazy.
Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?
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Re: Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?
#42I've always thought that a simple HN-like site directed at those of us interested in art, critical theory and literature would be wonderful. Does anybody know of one? I would be interested in helping set one up... One of the difficulties is that artists and academics tend to be very protective of interesting sources as I think intellectual individuality is much more of a currency than in the tech world.
I would be interested in this. I come from an art background and many people use aldaily.com to get a sort of curated collection of articles. But adding the voting from HN would be interesting. That said, you are right that academics are protective. Much of what they are actually interested in is pay-walled as well.
I once created a HN like alternative - http://tagly.azurewebsites.net/
- Has Tags
- Reputation
- Votes used as favorites
- Permission based roles ( not everyone can see all tags), according to tags --> custom roles or permissions on the topics.
- Personal tag header ( you can pick which tag you want to show in your menu)
- Custom tag based posts ( eg. when you add the tag newsletter, it adds 1 text input named subject, 1 textarea with Html and 1 textarea with text).
- You can hide tags showing, so it's only used as data
- ...
I could add paywall to it, if a post contains a tag named " paywall"
The demo is currently in Dutch though ( titles).
For anyone who wants to try: Demo1:123456 ( user : pass) -- http://tagly.azurewebsites.net/Account/Login?returnUrl=
It's not completely finished though
Re: Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everybody knows you stay away from the defaults and stay on the smaller subreddits. There are a lot of small, specialized subs that have a great community.
Any examples?
https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskCulinary/
The smaller subs have an entirely different culture and community. Any interest you have has a related sub-Reddit. you can search for them by clicking the 'more' link in the top bar that lists the subreddits.
https://www.reddit.com/subreddits/
Subcribe to the ones you like, and unsubscribe from all the defaults.
Re: Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?
#44Lobsters https://lobste.rs/
I love lobste.rs but I do have one complaint: The Tags, metadata and noise around the topic titles makes it difficult to scan for interesting topics. HN is so easy to just look down the list and find something interesting to read or discuss.
Re: Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just visited and the top post this month is http://www.metafilter.com/163757/Emotions-are-Work , which was the most anti-male comments I've been exposed to in a while. The name meta filter implies to me this site wanted to be somewhat neutral and open-ended, but my impression so far is it's become dominated by SJW types, which is going to make it unreadable by me.
Just quickly browsing through it, I didn't see anything anti-male. It did strike me that there are many female posters there. Can you point out what you mean specifically?
How about the first sentence, "Women are expected to regulate the emotions of men as well as themselves."
And the first comment, "Anyhow — men who don’t understand their entire emotional range are prone to anger because they can’t meet their own needs."
And the 2nd comment, "I also wonder if that guy wonders if his girlfriends ever had to hire sex workers to manage their emotional needs before they met him."
I don't understand how you can't see it's a one-sided echo chamber.
Re: Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everybody knows you stay away from the defaults and stay on the smaller subreddits. There are a lot of small, specialized subs that have a great community.
Any examples?
Most of the sports subreddits are great. r/cfb, r/NFL, r/NBA, r/baseball, r/hockey, r/soccer, r/collegebasketball, r/fantasyfootball, etc.
Re: Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?
#47http://metafilter.com
I just visited and the top post this month is http://www.metafilter.com/163757/Emotions-are-Work , which was the most anti-male comments I've been exposed to in a while. The name meta filter implies to me this site wanted to be somewhat neutral and open-ended, but my impression so far is it's become dominated by SJW types, which is going to make it unreadable by me.
If that's one of the most anti-male comments that you've been exposed to in a while, the internet is a safe space for men.
It seemed to me more of a rationalization for the behavior of abusive men; that the reason they're abusive is because they haven't been "regulated" enough, not because they're selfish, or stupid, or enjoy hurting people. It seems the kind of excuse that women make to excuse men, and to excuse themselves staying with abusive men.
Re: Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any examples?
I'm not OP, but https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ is a good example.
Sadly, it seems it is also the only example. Can you name four or five other subreddits that come close?
I always felt like vommiting when I saw people recommend /r/woodworking, but I couldn't figure out why. I was reading an unrelated critique of /r/fitness one day and somebody summed up my feelings about /r/woodworking perfectly
"/r/_______ is a bunch of beginners masquerading as experts."
Re: Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
I enjoy reading Lobsters, but the invite-only nature of it has had me sidelined as a passive observer for years and that's frustrating.
How do you obtain an invite? That seems crazy.
You can come hang out in #lobsters on freenode and ask for one. I can invite you both if you like.
Re: Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just quickly browsing through it, I didn't see anything anti-male. It did strike me that there are many female posters there. Can you point out what you mean specifically?
How about the first sentence, "Women are expected to regulate the emotions of men as well as themselves." And the first comment, "Anyhow — men who don’t understand their entire emotional range are prone to anger because they can’t meet their own needs." And the 2nd comment, "I also wonder if that guy wonders if his girlfriends ever had to hire sex workers to manage their emotional needs before they met him." I don't…
What exactly do you object to in any of those three sentences as being sexist? I don't understand what anti-male means to you.