Congrats on the soft launch Jake! Did not realise this was yours, I share some similar feedback on the front page as per others here.
Wish you all the best from Australia!
Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
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Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#612Earlier quoted context omitted.
The gateways I use don't, or at least give me the option not to. Those iFrames cause all kinds of headaches when the user hits the back button or double clicks a submit button or does any number of other things that happen thousands of times a day on a moderately high traffic site, and when it messes up you either miss out on a sale (ouch) or charge the customer twice (double ouch).
> The gateways I use don't, or at least give me the option not to. They usually don't tell you they do. For example, both Stripe and Square use iFrames; otherwise it's not possible to hide credit card entry from your main application. There are gateways that redirect you away and return you back after payment, but that's a whole another story.
You're right, but it's worth noting that the iframes used today are better at hiding the fact that they're iframes, it's usually hidden behind an API call from a library that you import, and that doesn't affect your browsing history, or at least not as bad as those huge forms used in the past that would essentially replace the page you're on for the sake of paying.
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
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> The goal for sites like this is never "high quality content", it's "maximum traffic". so how do you feel about HN personally? >If that means low effort meme posts, who are you to slap those dollars out of his hand? If so, congrats. I'll keep searching and be glad some rags to riches site came about in a time of multibillion dollar empires. >these sites are for entertainment not elucidation and discovery. put it thi…
You are not a very desirable user for a company to attempt to sell ads to. You don’t fall for tricks, you don’t click on bait, you don’t generate value easily for the sites you use. The people who like memes are a lot easier to make money off of than you, and as much as people pretend to hare money, it’s the way we survive in this world.
Why are we talking about selling ads on a thread entirely about a website whose whole shtick is that they don't sell ads.
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#614pay to post? Naaa bruh... naaa
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#616Would be great if one could have at look at the site without being forced to register.
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#617Earlier quoted context omitted.
China is not a third world country any longer. It's competing with the US and Xi is doing fine. Tens of thousands of credit cards or phone numbers or whatever - why not, do you think that would be a problem for such a nation state actor
> China is not a third world country any longer. You miss the point. A 50 cent army is feasible when you are paying third world wages. If Chinese wage increases price them out of the market, then you can just hire people from somewhere else. But it's the low wages that make such an attack possible. Low wages vs high wages don't matter much when you are spending $200/hr per soldier on Reddit account fees. If China wan…
$200/h per person, you guessed.
I don't think it's a good guess,
nevertheless, for 10 000 people, it's nothing, it's coffee money for the CCP.
Interesting anyway to have heard your thoughts. Have a nice day (probably won't reply any more)
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#618Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another moderation risk is that whoever is moderating has an incentive to delete people’s potentially successful posts and repost under their own or a friend’s alt account
I think the simplest around that is to pay the moderators. So given the $2 - $1 goes to the server - $.67 goes to the users you upvote - $.33 goes to the moderator(s) of the group you upvoted in. So there's actual incentive to want to mod to begin with, and less incentive to risk that by trying to game for post votes as well. Now ofc I already see a half dozen issues here, so we'd need to deviate strongly from reddit…
Pay all mods of all subs a fixed amount no matter what. Solved
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
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It reads to me like: > " [your subscription fee over my $1 take] gets split evenly between everything you upvote that month. " So if I subscribe and pay $2/month, there's $1/month from me for that, so if I upvote ten things they each get $0.03 from me and if I upvote a ten things a day that's three hundred in a month, they each get $0.0033 from me. I'm not clear if that covers comments or only top level submissions /…
There needs to be a limit on things you can upvote each month based on how much you give as a subscription. Each upvote should be worth at least 1 penny. If you agree to subscribe for $2 a month, that gives you a max of 100 upvotes (1 for each penny over the dollar server costs). The more you donate, the more upvotes you get ($5 per month would give you 400 votes).
Idt tying upvotes to money is a good community model at all.
Many of the richest people in the world are also the worst kind of people.
You will not see diverse content being upvoted with this model and you will encourage rampant corruption (ie Trump campaign being upvoted using right wing corporate funds/"donations" to promote it).