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Re: Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe

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Post by rayhano »

kmfrk wrote: post #48

This looks like a service that tries to imitate Hacker News and assumes the same traffic and audience. Focus on fewer posts on the front page; no more than 20% of the posts on it should have 0 comments, because it just serves to make the site look barren - which it probably is. You don't even have a community yet, so there is no hive mind nor zeitgeist on the site; bringing people together to discuss a few issues wil…

We are trying - we have a core user base that have kept in communication with an email list called Open Coffee (powered by Meetup.com)

That is where the idea came up - we needed a more open method to ask questions of each other, share info and demos

Re: Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe

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Post by why-el »

The one thing that should really be taken into consideration is username consistency across both sites, that will help. (And I can't have the same user name because the evil "-" is not allowed. Do something about it.)

Re: Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe

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Post by stfu »

Jd wrote: post #25

Can I ask a simple question: Why? I live in Europe, but AFAIK none of the places where I've lived/am regular even have an HN meetup. I have no idea we would want a splintered HN.

Same here. In order to make a geo based community there better be good reasons for that. All the abandoned Social Networks in Europe that had a localized positioning are still witnesses of this development.

Re: Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe

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Post by pedrocarvalho »

At first I didn't liked the idea, but it could work as a way to filter out US centric posts and focus more on Europe.

I think it needs some guidelines: is English the preferred language? If this is limited to Europe, is it ok to have posts related to other parts of the world?

Re: Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe

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Post by jmilloy »

A more appropriate solution, I would think, is regional filtering here on HN. Label submissions with the relevant region, if any, and add one more tab which filters results by region according to a black/white list in your profile.

Maybe hackful will show us that such a feature would be heavily used.

Re: Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe

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Post by newandimproved »

rayhano wrote: post #51
kmfrk wrote: post #48

This looks like a service that tries to imitate Hacker News and assumes the same traffic and audience. Focus on fewer posts on the front page; no more than 20% of the posts on it should have 0 comments, because it just serves to make the site look barren - which it probably is. You don't even have a community yet, so there is no hive mind nor zeitgeist on the site; bringing people together to discuss a few issues wil…

We are trying - we have a core user base that have kept in communication with an email list called Open Coffee (powered by Meetup.com) That is where the idea came up - we needed a more open method to ask questions of each other, share info and demos

Again, I've got to say you need to differentiate to survive. There have been several HN clones in the past year or so (remember lamernews.com?) but none of them differentiated enough.

Please don't make the same mistake. Like Steve Jobs said: "Be Different".

Re: Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe

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Post by v0cab »

weavejester wrote: post #34
v0cab wrote: post #29

I'm British and I think this is a great idea. I'm interested to read about the startup scene in Europe and the UK. I do think that we should be trying to move away from the 'hacker' label. People are never going to understand that 'hackers' can be good -- See that AP Press article. And really, our definition is the less popular one, and therefore less correct, and it is we who should change our wording.

Does it matter? The people who read Hacker News or Hackful Europe will understand the meaning.

Yeah, but these two websites aren't the only places that the term 'hacker' is used as we use it.

Re: Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe

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Post by hessenwolf »

rayhano wrote: post #51
kmfrk wrote: post #48

This looks like a service that tries to imitate Hacker News and assumes the same traffic and audience. Focus on fewer posts on the front page; no more than 20% of the posts on it should have 0 comments, because it just serves to make the site look barren - which it probably is. You don't even have a community yet, so there is no hive mind nor zeitgeist on the site; bringing people together to discuss a few issues wil…

We are trying - we have a core user base that have kept in communication with an email list called Open Coffee (powered by Meetup.com) That is where the idea came up - we needed a more open method to ask questions of each other, share info and demos

Why do I have to sign up with my email? I don't want to.
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