This is not crypto news, but cryptocurrency news.
Sorry if I confused anyone, didn’t mean to start a flame war. It was just the first domain I found that was available, I didn’t think too much about it
Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News
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Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News
#102If 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 cl…
Thanks for your comments. This is very much an early prototype and I appreciate your comments. I will be looking to add the ability to comment next. Regarding adding text at the bottom I thought it might be easier for people to read a glimpse of text before deciding to open the link, I’ve found this useful in my own browsing. The actual link has a 5 second redirect because I am using the free tier currently for webhose.io api (a great news scraping provider). if I get enough traction I may look at getting a paid account, but this is very much a side project
Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News
#103Once again I’d appreciate any great 101 resources people have found explaining blockchain, cryptocurrencies and other related topics. I will look at adding more content to the 101 page. I know very little about the topic and just chose this as a random topic for news scraping. I am very much learning :)
Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News
#104Why does a 0-points, downvoted Reddit thread with an (((echo))) have 640 points on this scraper?
I think the vote count is obviously manipulated. Stay away from this site.
Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News
#105Will you open the API like HackerNews ?
I may, in the meantime you can access it via my backend service. It's a mongodb store
https://cryptoserver.now.sh/threads
Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News
#106Thank you everyone for the great feedback. Please feel free to share any helpful links that explain blockchain, cryptocurrencies, ICOs etc. and I will post on the 101 resource page. I am very new to this and only a curious observer of the cryptocurrency wave
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#107I am not able to click any story :(
Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News
#108It would be really great to be able to login 1) save stuff and 2) discuss articles. It doesn't even need to be threaded or have voting at first.
I've just added the ability to save interesting posts. You will see a button that says "favorite" under each post. You will be prompted to sign up and then it will save it your account to access at a later stage. Next up comments and discussions :)
Re: Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News
#109I’ve now added the ability to comment and am fine tuning replies :) thanks again for all the great feedback.