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Re: Non-Hacker News

#21
post #6

I think it's a good idea. It'd be cool to see the same people here express their views, share ideas, etc. on topics other than programming/business. I have time to moderate. My email is in my profile.

If you sign up an account there I'll upgrade it.

I'm in.

Btw, are you raising any capital?

Re: Non-Hacker News

#22

Reddit?

But with the very key addition of moderation.

I actually wish someone just throw up a vbulletin install for all the off-topic discussions. That's really what people want. All these Ask YC/HN stuff, people wanting profiles or avatars, etc.

Re: Non-Hacker News

#23
post #4

The creation of a non-hacker news site seems a bit knee-jerk. Would it not have been better to have waited a few days to see how the recent debate has affected the quality of submissions?

I think the problem has more to do with sarcastic comments - people take them personally and start useless wars, and then memes.

Re: Non-Hacker News

#25

Slinkset rocks! This is a perfect application of a totally amazing piece of software.

I am most impressed at how easy it is to set up. I'm having some problem with the domain names, but it might by my fault or dynadot's.

Re: Non-Hacker News

#26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But with the very key addition of moderation.

I actually wish someone just throw up a vbulletin install for all the off-topic discussions. That's really what people want. All these Ask YC/HN stuff, people wanting profiles or avatars, etc.

I'm really aiming for something else. No Ask YC kinda stuff.

You're right though, that stuff is very forum-like.

Re: Non-Hacker News

#27
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you sign up an account there I'll upgrade it.

I'm in. Btw, are you raising any capital?

Ha, not for that site. It's just for fun. Slinkset may be though, I don't know. And if we become a burden on them, I might toss up a donation jar and/or some unobtrusive ads to cover their expenses.

Re: Non-Hacker News

#28
Two suggestions - totally personal, so curious what other's think: 1) get rid of the front page dominating "welcome", I think it's unnecessary and annoying - people will click on the link and read more if they want to.

2) make the interface exactly like hacker news. For instance I think the bold titles is a bit distracting, esp after navigating over from hn.

3) one of my favorite features of hn is that I can often just type "n" into my browser address bar and the browser autocompletes to news.ycombinator.com. This is particularly useful on my mobile. Would be cool if the name of non-hn had some similar sort of name that leveraged autocomplete.

Re: Non-Hacker News

#29

Slinkset rocks! This is a perfect application of a totally amazing piece of software.

I am most impressed at how easy it is to set up. I'm having some problem with the domain names, but it might by my fault or dynadot's.

Wait 24 hours and it should be all kosher. DNS is always a PITA.

Re: Non-Hacker News

#30
Thank you. I have found myself in an odd spot, enjoying the economic and political discussion but trying not to lower the S/N by fueling the fire with submissions.
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