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How is Reddit different from Hacker News aside from the existence (basically required due to the size) of subreddits?
Reddit "smart" collapses subthreads. Sometimes those links expand. Sometimes they open new page. Infuriating. HN does page big threads, which isn't too bad. I'm immensely grateful HN doesn't do any silly AJAX style background, progressive loading of content.
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I am trying to imagine the reaction an artist or musician would get to "Show HN: here is some art I do" and it is at least 50% "what is this doing here, HN is for programmer/startup stuff". I am pretty sure the HN for X, where X is "art" or "music", is not HN. I am also finding myself tempted to do exactly this with regards to the graphic novel I drew a few years back, just to see how badly it performs.
Art and music topics do appear on HN front page, but only when they satisfy intellectual curiosity. Sharing art or music itself rarely does this, but I remember recently seeing an acid house generator, and another had a constellation of electronic music samples along a long page.
love this website & audience but am doing work in the “building copyleft storytelling” space - a community of which does not yet seem to exist
but wait a sec - what “building copyleft storytelling” even mean except for sounding like some make believe fantasy thing?
by vision rn it’s something like coding but with respect to allowing a new community of creators to grow / develop via effectively “using” (fan-fiction-ing”) a copyleft creators work for new & original creation of
- story
- character
- plot
available for anyone to create w & sell commercial on the basis that they likewise license their work as copyleft Creative Commons CC BY-SA & link-to/credit original source work
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
i.e
this week am actually releasing signature characters from 3 vol of my free 2 read copyright short story series as copyleft / Creative Commons (CCBYSA) “copyleft character personas” anyone can create w/ (w license & link to credit source)
- NFT art (imagine a cryptopunk with a backstory)
- new orginal story ft copyleft character
- develop copyleft world build
will this be a use-case for crypto ecosystem? i.e ETH for Art/Character/Copyleft world-building?
if no, then what about when considering the “attention-economy”?
if curious about, short story series can be found here - https://blondyn.com
& almost daily superstrings here: http://superstrings.substack.com
for the record, if one vote can count, i do not mean this reply to come off as a shameless “post-selfie” but a legitimate “idea-pitch” from a HN regular of about 5 yrs who is “a writer” that is having difficulty finding an audience which == real bad kinda (sweat-drop + smile emoji goes here;)
also real bad is having zero folk / friends to talk about such an idea with
if this post still makes peeps mad just know just saw this link & the Cheshire post reply on “Art & Music” & imagined “Storytelling” could maybe fit in there as a neat 3rd thus thought to make like Wonderland /share something that ought at a minimum count as curious while simultaneously in quest to be mindful
also if such a copyleft storytelling community does exist pls share thx
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I am trying to imagine the reaction an artist or musician would get to "Show HN: here is some art I do" and it is at least 50% "what is this doing here, HN is for programmer/startup stuff". I am pretty sure the HN for X, where X is "art" or "music", is not HN. I am also finding myself tempted to do exactly this with regards to the graphic novel I drew a few years back, just to see how badly it performs.
We just got an email from a painter the other day and I encouraged him to post his stuff here. We'll see if he does. Admittedly he only knows about HN because he's also a programmer.
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Art and music topics do appear on HN front page, but only when they satisfy intellectual curiosity. Sharing art or music itself rarely does this, but I remember recently seeing an acid house generator, and another had a constellation of electronic music samples along a long page.
really wish there was a “Literature Extension,” actually specifically for HN love this website & audience but am doing work in the “building copyleft storytelling” space - a community of which does not yet seem to exist but wait a sec - what “building copyleft storytelling” even mean except for sounding like some make believe fantasy thing? by vision rn it’s something like coding but with respect to allowing a new co…
Having written my own fair share of masturbatory to-do lists, I hope you learn to channel your enthusiasm in more practical, less fantastic/grandiose ways.
Anyone know of a "hacker news minus politics and marketing"?
It's such a catch-22. You want more people to want to use your favorite niche forum. But every niche forum that's gotten popular has been ruined. Reddit has a few great subreddits. They aren't unpopular, but I also prefer not to market them. Let the people who really want it search for it, I guess.
Ruined? Not always. For example, investment subreddits are generally very bad, yet the Berkshire Hathaway subreddit (r/brkb) is able to keep the rot out without becoming an echo chamber: https://old.reddit.com/r/brkb/ This subreddit has literally dozens of value investor moderators, and the bubbles (cryptocurrency/ARK/Musk) are forcibly excluded. The result is a forum where Buffett's principles of intrinsic value (di…
A sweet spot is a place where there are enough people to have long discussions but each person is deeply invested in the health of the forum itself.
My point was more about the difficulty in preserving the quality as quantity goes up. If you keep the quantity really low, then sure, you can enforce quality. But, then it feels pointless because there simply aren't enough conversations to engage in.
My favorite subreddit has thousands on comments on the weekly thread, yet I can realize familiar names, have deep conversations while the total sub count stays around 10k. Incredibly strict moderation helps (thanks dang), but it is a thankless job.
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There's a great extension called Old Reddit Redirect [0] that'll always take you to old Reddit, highly recommend it. Reddit's new direction in recent years has been really painful. There's so many great niche communities there that practically don't exist elsewhere on the Internet. Unfortunately, if/when they get rid of old Reddit and the API for third party apps, I'll probably drop Reddit entirely. [0] Firefox: http…
This is something that has been a source of frustration for me. There are many wonderful and incredibly in-depth communities on Reddit. They only get that way with substantial investment by passionate volunteers who spend the time to moderate, create on-topic original content, and cultivate a community. Many of these bemoan when they appear on the front page because of the sort of attention it attracts. Yet the direc…
No way I would pay $300 yearly for seeing gif advertisements each day.
It's such a catch-22. You want more people to want to use your favorite niche forum. But every niche forum that's gotten popular has been ruined. Reddit has a few great subreddits. They aren't unpopular, but I also prefer not to market them. Let the people who really want it search for it, I guess.
> But every niche forum that's gotten popular has been ruined. Really? I'm not sure I agree with this. I feel like if the topic itself is niche or requires some baseline level of competency to contribute, then it actually resists this "crapification" because your average troll just doesn't have enough content/info to work with. It's the broader, general interest topics, usually that have some intersection with politi…
My commentary was on niche community that cover topics of general interest to people. (Think Anandtech, Some meme subreddit or hot-technical areas like r/machinelearning or r/cscareerquestions)