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Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

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that's funny because I read the comments on far more posts that I actually follow the links to.

Me too. I thought most people on HN came here for the discussion -- even if that means primarily reading comments and not necessarily speaking up.

I spent about an hour yesterday learning all of these amazing insights about the solar energy industry, thanks to Hacker News comments.

Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

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I can't middleclick links. Unusable for me. Also, please don't attach /?sort=new (or remove it) to reddit threads. It overrides the user's sorting.

Also consider using np.reddit.com for reddit links ( https://www.reddit.com/r/NoParticipation/wiki/intro ).

I'd rather use ns.reddit.com (old style reddit)... but yeah I can't left click or middle click those links...

Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

#93
If you model your site after Hacker News, people are going to try to use it like Hacker News, and the expected behavior of your site is incredibly not-hacker-news-like.

1. I click on a story expecting for it to take me to the site, but nothing happens. After feeling confused, I realize it actually added some text content after the story. What? It was only after looking in the comments here that I realized I had to click the link in parentheses (which on Hacker News shows you submissions from that website, not links you to the content)

2. I see a lot of "points", so I try to understand how things are upvoted - is it accounts? No, no accounts for your site. Is it based on the links popularity (eg trending tweets, hot news, hot reddit stories, etc)? No, there are some stories with hundreds of points, but linking to a reddit post with 2 upvotes. It's only then do I realize by clicking on the title, or the link, I'm "up-voting" it, even though it might not be good content (and in fact, each time I click it adds a point).

3. I search for the ability to comment, but realize that's not there, but again since it looks like Hacker News I think there's comments and go to click on something that doesn't exist.

In general, I think your site could be really useful, and there's a lot of cool stuff you did, but I'd either change your design so people don't treat your site (interaction wise) like the site your referencing, or try to at least link up expected behavior in a more consistent way.

Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

#94
Good stuff, I highly recommend applying as a researcher to the top leading forecast reporting firm called cryptonaire.com. They have many clients that are large investment groups that will be using their research when the full app release is out. It would be nice to have more researchers that love crypto rather then investment. Give it a try, they are the first research firm in the industry.

Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News

#97
Neat site, something I would use, since I just started looking into cryptocurrency news, and have both a discovery problem (I didn't know til recently that r/ethtrader existed) and a content filtering problem (but what if most of r/ethtrader is a circlejerk?). Maybe in the future users could also upvote credible news with small amounts of bitcoin, like giving gold in Reddit.
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