Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

hystoria.100millionbooks.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

81–90 of 106 posts

Re: Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

#81

Post by OJFord »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #57
moksha256 wrote: post #2

I created Hystoria as an experiment to see if blocking out current events can lead to more thoughtful discourse. --- Hystoria is a simple, reddit-like site (built with a simplified version of Lemmy [0]) where only items older than 5 years can be posted. I've been obsessed with media dynamics for years now, always wondering what variables can be adjusted within the current environment to result in better media product…

Interesting - reminds me of the "Delayed Gratification" magazine I just started subscribing to; it's a less ambitious timeframe, but by being deliberately 1-2 quarters behind, it does avoid a lot of churn and puts in a lot of perspective. (FWIW: I find I enjoy the magazine, but I find it also spends a bulk of it in discussing interesting but marginal items from 6 months ago, whereas I would've expected a benefit-of-r…

If you don't mind, is it nicely laid out, typeset, nice paper, presented nicely on arrival etc.? i.e. is it a good gift, or is it 'just' a good magazine?

I've thought about 'Lapham's Quarterly' before, it's just international shipping enough to put me off.

Re: Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

#82

Post by anonytrary »

moksha256 wrote: post #2

I created Hystoria as an experiment to see if blocking out current events can lead to more thoughtful discourse. --- Hystoria is a simple, reddit-like site (built with a simplified version of Lemmy [0]) where only items older than 5 years can be posted. I've been obsessed with media dynamics for years now, always wondering what variables can be adjusted within the current environment to result in better media product…

I think it's a brilliant idea. It will result in timelessness being emphasized. Politics rage and "the Twitter mob" is not timeless for the most part, but the key learnings and historical insights are timeless. How do you ensure that a post is actually old? Can't post age be spoofed by the client or the server that is serving the post?

Re: Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

#83

Post by moksha256 »

anonytrary wrote: post #82
moksha256 wrote: post #2

I created Hystoria as an experiment to see if blocking out current events can lead to more thoughtful discourse. --- Hystoria is a simple, reddit-like site (built with a simplified version of Lemmy [0]) where only items older than 5 years can be posted. I've been obsessed with media dynamics for years now, always wondering what variables can be adjusted within the current environment to result in better media product…

I think it's a brilliant idea. It will result in timelessness being emphasized. Politics rage and "the Twitter mob" is not timeless for the most part, but the key learnings and historical insights are timeless. How do you ensure that a post is actually old? Can't post age be spoofed by the client or the server that is serving the post?

Currently I'm relying on the poster (a) identifying the year of publication in the title and (b) trusting that the year claimed in the title is accurate.

So it's not automated. I'm not sure if automating such a thing is doable in a reliable way, but I'm happy to be corrected.

Re: Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

#84

Post by moksha256 »

OJFord wrote: post #81
NikolaNovak wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting - reminds me of the "Delayed Gratification" magazine I just started subscribing to; it's a less ambitious timeframe, but by being deliberately 1-2 quarters behind, it does avoid a lot of churn and puts in a lot of perspective. (FWIW: I find I enjoy the magazine, but I find it also spends a bulk of it in discussing interesting but marginal items from 6 months ago, whereas I would've expected a benefit-of-r…

If you don't mind, is it nicely laid out, typeset, nice paper, presented nicely on arrival etc.? i.e. is it a good gift, or is it 'just' a good magazine? I've thought about 'Lapham's Quarterly' before, it's just international shipping enough to put me off.

Lapham's Quarterly is great stuff. They had a 50% sale a couple of months ago and I bought...a lot of their back issues.

Re: Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

#86

Post by archagon »

moksha256 wrote: post #77
pmiller2 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love the concept, but I don't know if 5 years is even enough time for people to have gotten over current events. If you made it 20+ years, I suspect that would work better. In any case, good luck, and I hope I'm wrong. :-)

20 years! Frankly hadn't thought of going back even further. But I guess if Lindy holds true, the farther you go back, the better it should get. In such a case having options to filter would be helpful, as other commenter suggested.

Heh! The site could have “vintages”.

Re: Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

#87

Post by benrbray »

antgiant wrote: post #73

This reminds me of an idea I’ve had for a restaurant, but know I will never actually build myself. Standard “Sports Bar” setup with TVs everywhere, but all of the TVs are playing the live broadcast from exactly 8 years ago. (I picked 8 years so that the news would match up with the US Political cycle, the Olympics, and most of the time the leap year cycle.) I always thought that it would be fun to watch the breathles…

It would be neat to do this with news footage from other countries. Like a British pub in Austin TX playing BBC footage from 8 years ago (or whatever the appropriate cycle length would be.)

Re: Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old

#90

Post by moksha256 »

j4nt4b wrote: post #89

What a cool idea! Now, how about somethimg where only content can be shared if it's only 500+ years old?

Idea: create another Lemmy instance focused on 500+ year old content and federate it with mine! Then you'd get the best of both worlds ;)
Post reply on HN