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I don't understand the need for all the padding everywhere. I can fit 3 things on my screen, it makes me feel claustrophobic.
The good thing is that I made it as a variable: https://github.com/rings-social/frontend/blob/master/src/ass...
PRs are welcome :)
Unlike old reddit, this site requires JS to function.
One annoyance about the UI (for me at least) is the real lack of information density. Hacker News manages to show 15 stories without even scrolling, while this manages to present... 3? For starters, individual posts in the Explore view[0] are wayyyy too big, while not providing much information at all. Look at the Comments button, for instance: why is that on a separate line? After 5 minutes of experimentation, I was…
As the site grows we'll add more actions most likely, and those will end up on that line.
We're always open for suggestions and PRs - but yours is already a valuable comment. Thanks!
Unlike old reddit, this site requires JS to function.
One annoyance about the UI (for me at least) is the real lack of information density. Hacker News manages to show 15 stories without even scrolling, while this manages to present... 3? For starters, individual posts in the Explore view[0] are wayyyy too big, while not providing much information at all. Look at the Comments button, for instance: why is that on a separate line? After 5 minutes of experimentation, I was…
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I'm waiting for something minimal like tildes or hn to show up. These new competitors are too bloated.
Honestly a self-hostable HN clone, so no rings/communities/subreddits or anything, I think could be kind of cool. 1 community per server, so they stay naturally pretty small. If you find a post out in the wild, the domain name tells you exactly what the general topic is. You could use activity pub to handle a “personal front page” that includes stuff from other instances per user. Maybe a bit naieve but that’s basica…
There's no content on the site. Seems like premature advertisement.
The last time I helped launch a forum, this was migrating a group mailing list to vBulletin. With some research, I did locate this Reddit post with some tips. [0]
Since this is 2023, One could also use ChatGPT Plus (GPT-4) [1] to generate the content, or the GPT-4 API if available.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/modguide/comments/e7ircv/how_to_see...
Search with no results, login? And explore with four links.. all designed poorly. Not going to cut it.
What's designed poorly? Can you extend your feedback a bit please?
Any interest to refactor it into an independent package, or is it tied into your own data model?
I also work on a link aggregator and I'm probably interested in cribbing the reddit API compatibility layer. Any interest to refactor it into an independent package, or is it tied into your own data model?
I'm just not sure if at that point it makes more sense for you to just create that part yourself
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i don't think most people care. or would care, ever, if the site worked without js. the people who care about sites running without js also don't contribute to revenue either. like genuinely i don't think there's a more miserable crowd to support, with stronger preferences.
100%. Techies are such an unrepresentative niche: * Don't like to pay for anything * overly privacy conscious and minimalistic * highly opinionated, vocal and demanding in ways that probably won't help the mainstream (eg want high customisablity) * high levels of autism mean they focus on irrelevant minutae, often perfectionistic. low appreciation of aesthetics * accept things that are broken/way too difficult to use…