Tangential: I looked at other "Hacker News for X" sites and a lot of those links are now dead — https://hn.algolia.com/?query="hacker%20news%20for"&sort=byP... Only lobsters and Product Hunt made it out alive from what I can tell. Says a lot about HN's moderation team, do the things that don't scale indeed.
Hacker News for lobsters?
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely so. Posts with more engagement will automatically climb up and that's on the "Top" section ( https://news.nukleosome.com/top ). We'll make this section the default as the community grows. Thanks for the feedback!
Or top daily perhaps https://news.nukleosome.com/top/daily
The reason we're leaving it at 'Latest' for now is because that's where the 'Welcome' post is pinned, which is important for people to get a sense of what it's all about and what does it stand for (i.e. mission).
Re: Show HN: Health News – Hacker News for Health
#33Tangential: I looked at other "Hacker News for X" sites and a lot of those links are now dead — https://hn.algolia.com/?query="hacker%20news%20for"&sort=byP... Only lobsters and Product Hunt made it out alive from what I can tell. Says a lot about HN's moderation team, do the things that don't scale indeed.
I think HN teaches some great lessons. Building an online community has little to do with the technology of the platform. What matters the most is a strong robust set of founders, slow growth, and vigilent moderators. The founders will set the culture, and slow growth will help new comers to adapt. If you experience rapid growth you run the risk of new comers bringing in their own cultures without experiencing some o…
Agreed although it may not apply for every community/community type. Looks like you listened to Masters of Scale recently? :)
Re: Show HN: Health News – Hacker News for Health
#34This seems to just be a standard Discourse forum with about 5 users.
What makes it "Hacker News for Health"? Have you implemented features that make it work more like HN than Discourse usually does?
Re: Show HN: Health News – Hacker News for Health
#35This seems to just be a standard Discourse forum with about 5 users. What makes it "Hacker News for Health"? Have you implemented features that make it work more like HN than Discourse usually does?
"[...] with about 5 [contributing] users." On the 'consuming' side, it's more than 20X of that.
In any case, the raison d'être of this is to maintain a quality discourse around human health and biology. Why it doesn't "seem" to have achieved that goal yet is simply because it's a brand new project.
Now the reason for starting with Discouse is that, among its numerous capabilities, it actually does more than you'd expect when it comes to moderation. So it will help us maintain the quality as the community grows and we build our own tools.
Again, this is still in its infancy phase and even HN didn't look like HN on day or week one; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
I guess good things don't get built up in a hurry :) especially good communities.
Re: Show HN: Health News – Hacker News for Health
#36Tangential: I looked at other "Hacker News for X" sites and a lot of those links are now dead — https://hn.algolia.com/?query="hacker%20news%20for"&sort=byP... Only lobsters and Product Hunt made it out alive from what I can tell. Says a lot about HN's moderation team, do the things that don't scale indeed.
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#37This seems to just be a standard Discourse forum with about 5 users. What makes it "Hacker News for Health"? Have you implemented features that make it work more like HN than Discourse usually does?
"[...] with about 5 [contributing] users." On the 'consuming' side, it's more than 20X of that. In any case, the raison d'être of this is to maintain a quality discourse around human health and biology. Why it doesn't "seem" to have achieved that goal yet is simply because it's a brand new project. Now the reason for starting with Discouse is that, among its numerous capabilities, it actually does more than you'd exp…
I'm a moderator on a Discourse instance and while it's not perfect, it's pretty dang good. That said, it's more oriented toward discussion than link-sharing. Do you plan to be more Reddit-like or forum-like? (Of course, there's overlap between those categories, but generally speaking.)
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
"[...] with about 5 [contributing] users." On the 'consuming' side, it's more than 20X of that. In any case, the raison d'être of this is to maintain a quality discourse around human health and biology. Why it doesn't "seem" to have achieved that goal yet is simply because it's a brand new project. Now the reason for starting with Discouse is that, among its numerous capabilities, it actually does more than you'd exp…
I'm a moderator on a Discourse instance and while it's not perfect, it's pretty dang good. That said, it's more oriented toward discussion than link-sharing. Do you plan to be more Reddit-like or forum-like? (Of course, there's overlap between those categories, but generally speaking.)
It is quite good indeed. Where do you see it lacking? Perhaps this is a blindspot for admins.
The aim is to really have some good discussions from time to time. We definitely don’t want to make it a place to just dump links into.