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My favorite twitterfeed is @newsycombinator (by a longshot, and its a bot!), and I want to see if a similar community could be created for art.
So my thought was: is the hacker news format successful for other communities? Since the source is available, what have other people made with it?
And here's some defunct ones that were mentioned: markenomics newsmogul
https://github.com/antirez/lamernews
which powers a couple of sites. this one's demo site seems down:
https://github.com/jaekwon/YCatalyst
not entirely sure what sites it powers. these may help you find some of the more community-specific clones out there.
in terms of tools that may power some of the clones out there, in looking around i see this one: https://github.com/antirez/lamernews which powers a couple of sites. this one's demo site seems down: https://github.com/jaekwon/YCatalyst not entirely sure what sites it powers. these may help you find some of the more community-specific clones out there.
Hacker News works for programmers because programmers work in text and Hacker News is pure text. I don't think it would work for artists, I think you need something much more visual.
There was also nickb's New Mogul, but that's dead. There was also another education HN clone by the person behind BrainRacer, but that's also dead.
I found a few: http://www.uberlook.com for web design and graphics. http://bitlynews.com/ looks like its for trashy news. And here's some defunct ones that were mentioned: markenomics newsmogul
The most prominent I know of are quant.ly and forlue.com There was also nickb's New Mogul, but that's dead. There was also another education HN clone by the person behind BrainRacer, but that's also dead.