Have just setup a Slinkset board:
"Room.YC Blogs" - Aggregating 120 Blogs of Hacker News' top users.
Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses
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Re: Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses
#22Totally off-topic (except that it's linked from the article) but techcrunch's reddit clone is hilariously and pathetically empty. More on topic, I'd like to see more options to customize the "editorial policy" of your site - how many votes to get promoted, how user karma works, how sites get blocked, manual overrides, and so on. I find when I compare HN and Digg, I'm struck by how the sites have come to reflect the p…
I'm struck by how the sites have come to reflect the personalities of the people who founded them It's fascinating how companies (and other creations) tend to carry the personalities of the people who started them. In our world, Microsoft, Apple, Google are good examples... one could go on endlessly. There aren't many general principles that seem to hold up as well as this one does.
I don't know anything about Larry and Sergei except through what they do at Google. So it's almost a tautology that their company would reflect what I know about them. I guess Jobs is a little different, but he's still synonymous with Apple to most people.
Can you think of any business whose founder is independently famous, and who reflects your theory (e.g. a musician with a talent for improvisation, who started a company that constantly changes its business model)?
Re: Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses
#23Someone please explain to me how your personal reddit, hosted or not, is different from any other forum software such as, say, phpBB2, just as an example. Maybe other forums aren't quite as focused on the voting aspect (though it does exist). Some people see that as an advantage, though. I guess the whole point of having your own social news a.k.a. forum site is so you can dictate what can be posted and what not, to…
Forums treat all threads as equal. Usually they are listed by the time of the last post. You can get any thread back to the top by "bumping" it. Within threads all posts are equal and listed by time of entry. In a long thread the only way to see the best comments is to read the whole thing. Voting mechanisms are either poorly implemented and almost useless or not available.
For many subjects a 'social news site' style of threading is probably a better fit than traditional forums. Right now everyone knows how to use a forum. Despite Digg, reddit etc. social news sites are still a niche. But I have often thought when using forums that I'd like to be able to vote up a comment or thread. Over time, a 'social news site' interface might become a widely used alternative to traditional forums.
Re: Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses
#24In the future the site hopes to integrate drag-and-drop widgets and ad placement, but with a company that currently consists of only two co-founders, these are probably a ways off.
Yeah, that sounds impossible for two people to implement. rolls eyes
Re: Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses
#25Excellent! I've been waiting a long while for something like this :) Some suggestions: - When adding a feed, include feed detection code, so that I can type in a URL and have the feed auto-detected, instead of having to find the exact feed URL - Allow a threshold for downmodding like HN... only submitters with X or more karma can downmod. This looks great and I look forward to seeing it evolve and get better!
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Re: Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses
#26nice work guys. can I browse the slinksets that have been created? I saw typehype.slinkset.com on the homepage and thought it was cool -- I wonder what other ones have been created?
I've made an Internet Law slinkset:
http://ilaw.slinkset.com
Re: Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses
#27I wanted to mess with reddit (open source), and it's been a pain.
This is great.
But why do you required login before the test drive? Was this a technical issue?
Re: Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses
#28I am now using this as a task/bug/idea tracker internally. It could work out really well. :-)
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#29This software is super great.
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#30Someone please explain to me how your personal reddit, hosted or not, is different from any other forum software such as, say, phpBB2, just as an example. Maybe other forums aren't quite as focused on the voting aspect (though it does exist). Some people see that as an advantage, though. I guess the whole point of having your own social news a.k.a. forum site is so you can dictate what can be posted and what not, to…
I still participate in some old-style forums/bulletin boards (as well as Reddit and HN).
The other day I found myself wanting to vote on threads and feeling irritated that I couldn't.