Tildes – A non-profit community site driven by its users' interests
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Re: Tildes – A non-profit community site driven by its users' interests
#2For those hunting for a sign up link, it appears to be an invite only alpha.
How do you plan to handle scoring? Visible up/down votes? Upvotes and flags? Time based with no scoring?
Re: Tildes – A non-profit community site driven by its users' interests
#3Hi HN - I left my job at reddit about a year and a half ago, and a few months later decided to try starting a non-profit and work on building a new site that would be able to address a lot of the issues that I felt were hurting online communities.
I've kept it very quiet until recently, but have started telling people about it and inviting them to the alpha over the last couple of weeks. The site's still very minimal at this point (imagine a slightly-more-functional HN with separate "groups" for different subjects), but you're definitely welcome to invites. Since HN doesn't have private messaging (Tildes does!) please send me an email if you're interested in an invite, and feel free to ask questions here.
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#4Hi HN - I left my job at reddit about a year and a half ago, and a few months later decided to try starting a non-profit and work on building a new site that would be able to address a lot of the issues that I felt were hurting online communities. I've kept it very quiet until recently, but have started telling people about it and inviting them to the alpha over the last couple of weeks. The site's still very minimal…
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Re: Tildes – A non-profit community site driven by its users' interests
#5For those hunting for a sign up link, it appears to be an invite only alpha. How do you plan to handle scoring? Visible up/down votes? Upvotes and flags? Time based with no scoring?
There's some information about the current voting mechanics on this page: https://docs.tildes.net/mechanics
"Upvotes and flags" would be the closest, though the "flags" aren't necessarily a bad thing, for example you can flag things as a joke.
I'm also trying to make sure that there are good time-based sortings so that people have predictable feeds - at the moment, there's both a "newest" sort that's just chronological, as well as an "activity" one that works like a forum, where active threads keep coming back up to the top. There's a bit more info about my feelings about that here, as well: https://docs.tildes.net/overall-goals#let-users-make-their-o...
Re: Tildes – A non-profit community site driven by its users' interests
#6Over the years, we've seen reddit increasingly turn into an echo chamber. I've been personally voted down for telling people in a general subreddit that the anger they feel about ${Political Party A} is the same way that the opposition feels about ${Political Party B}.
What mechanisms are you planning to implement to, for lack of a better phrase, increase exposure to and improve tolerance of different points of view? Is strict moderation the only way to keep groups, or entire sites, from becoming friendly to only one point of view?
Re: Tildes – A non-profit community site driven by its users' interests
#7Hi HN - I left my job at reddit about a year and a half ago, and a few months later decided to try starting a non-profit and work on building a new site that would be able to address a lot of the issues that I felt were hurting online communities. I've kept it very quiet until recently, but have started telling people about it and inviting them to the alpha over the last couple of weeks. The site's still very minimal…
To request an invite to the Tildes alpha, email invites@tildes.net. Do not email any other addresses to ask for an invite.
source: https://docs.tildes.net/contact
Re: Tildes – A non-profit community site driven by its users' interests
#8Hi HN - I left my job at reddit about a year and a half ago, and a few months later decided to try starting a non-profit and work on building a new site that would be able to address a lot of the issues that I felt were hurting online communities. I've kept it very quiet until recently, but have started telling people about it and inviting them to the alpha over the last couple of weeks. The site's still very minimal…
What's the tech stack?
Re: Tildes – A non-profit community site driven by its users' interests
#9Hi HN - I left my job at reddit about a year and a half ago, and a few months later decided to try starting a non-profit and work on building a new site that would be able to address a lot of the issues that I felt were hurting online communities. I've kept it very quiet until recently, but have started telling people about it and inviting them to the alpha over the last couple of weeks. The site's still very minimal…
> imagine a slightly-more-functional HN with separate "groups" for different subjects
How do you compare the site to Reddit? Curious since you're pretty much branding it as an alternative to Reddit by disclosing your previous job there.
Re: Tildes – A non-profit community site driven by its users' interests
#10What will be your policies on adult content? And I don't just mean porn. For example, the BDSM community counts as "adult" but it's not necessarily pornographic.