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Re: Lobsters

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Post by eatonphil »

Good posts on software more reliably get to the top of lobste.rs than on HN in my experience. Whereas on HN you're competing with a wide variety of topics. Lobste.rs is pretty focused on just hardware/software hacking.

I don't mean that negatively. I'm glad we talk about varied topics on HN. But it's also nice to have a place that almost only talks about software/hardware.

Sometimes I've thought about starting a "software internals" forum but then I remember that's basically exactly what lobste.rs already is.

Re: Lobsters

#22

Post by praptak »

corobo wrote: post #7
warkanlock wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ghost town? It's active and growing!

It still seems about the same as it has been for years from an outside perspective It's pretty ghostly for a site that's been around since 2012

Why would I care about these numbers? It has up to date discussion on interesting news, so it's alive and kicking.

Re: Lobsters

#23

Post by treesciencebot »

Any reason why HN source code is not published? The best I can think of is not to let people see the penalizing behavior, but having an open standard might actually help it improve rather than keeping it as a hidden secret that slowly gets discovered by independent malicious parties.

Re: Lobsters

#24

Post by gtirloni »

bigdubs wrote: post #8
Xiol32 wrote: post #5

Would be less of a ghost town if they allowed sign ups rather than via invitation only. Appreciate that's kinda the point of the site, but if it's a ghost town then it's clearly petered out.

Quantity may have a quality all its own in warfare but for comments having the invite tree and accountability is pretty nice! I'd rather have (2) really insightful comments than 300 trying to promote themselves.

Except you don't see those 2 really insightful comments there.

Re: Lobsters

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Post by capableweb »

treesciencebot wrote: post #23

Any reason why HN source code is not published? The best I can think of is not to let people see the penalizing behavior, but having an open standard might actually help it improve rather than keeping it as a hidden secret that slowly gets discovered by independent malicious parties.

Here you can find the latest public code: http://arclanguage.org/

But I don't think there has been any public updates since that release (edit: updates from YC. There is a community-led project that continues to improve the codebase after that release)

Re: Lobsters

#26

Post by shawnz »

treesciencebot wrote: post #23

Any reason why HN source code is not published? The best I can think of is not to let people see the penalizing behavior, but having an open standard might actually help it improve rather than keeping it as a hidden secret that slowly gets discovered by independent malicious parties.

It shares the same lineage as this code: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/tree/master/apps/news

Re: Lobsters

#27

Post by linusg789 »

eatonphil wrote: post #21

Good posts on software more reliably get to the top of lobste.rs than on HN in my experience. Whereas on HN you're competing with a wide variety of topics. Lobste.rs is pretty focused on just hardware/software hacking. I don't mean that negatively. I'm glad we talk about varied topics on HN. But it's also nice to have a place that almost only talks about software/hardware. Sometimes I've thought about starting a "sof…

Hit the nail on the head.

Re: Lobsters

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Post by some_furry »

Xiol32 wrote: post #5

Would be less of a ghost town if they allowed sign ups rather than via invitation only. Appreciate that's kinda the point of the site, but if it's a ghost town then it's clearly petered out.

It's not a ghost town, it's just not as noisy as HN. It's quite active.

Re: Lobsters

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Post by some_furry »

andy99 wrote: post #17
Xiol32 wrote: post #5

Would be less of a ghost town if they allowed sign ups rather than via invitation only. Appreciate that's kinda the point of the site, but if it's a ghost town then it's clearly petered out.

They discuss under "invitation tree" how it's possible to get an invite if you want one. https://lobste.rs/about I don't have an account although a couple things I wrote got posted there, if I'd realized it at the time that apparently qualifies me. Overall I don't know if the quality is better than HN, even if the SNR is higher, there is just so much less total that the sum of good stuff is lower. It's almost complet…

If you want an invite, ask your friends if anyone has an account.

Re: Lobsters

#30

Post by corobo »

praptak wrote: post #22
corobo wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It still seems about the same as it has been for years from an outside perspective It's pretty ghostly for a site that's been around since 2012

Why would I care about these numbers? It has up to date discussion on interesting news, so it's alive and kicking.

Why would you personally care? No idea, I don't know you.

Why would anyone else care that there's discussion on a discussion forum? Because that's the point of it lol

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