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Re: Jike: The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene

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Every guild or community should have a high quality discussion forum like hackernews. But assuming you can translate the learnings from Hackernews to another platform, how exactly would you ensure high quality?

Buy a clone of dang. Or several.

This might be easier today than before with the help of AI.

Re: Jike: The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene

#12

So is this like the Chinese Hacker News, or what?

More like Bluesky in the sense that it's a niche app popular among parts of the "tech scene," in particular the un-HN-like parts.

I don't think there's a direct Chinese equivalent to Hacker News, but https://v2ex.com/?tab=all might come closest.

Re: Jike: The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene

#13
post #5

Every guild or community should have a high quality discussion forum like hackernews. But assuming you can translate the learnings from Hackernews to another platform, how exactly would you ensure high quality?

Buy a clone of dang. Or several.

Get OpenDang from Github and run it locally.

Re: Jike: The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene

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post #12

So is this like the Chinese Hacker News, or what?

More like Bluesky in the sense that it's a niche app popular among parts of the "tech scene," in particular the un-HN-like parts. I don't think there's a direct Chinese equivalent to Hacker News, but https://v2ex.com/?tab=all might come closest.

>the un-HN-like parts

What do you mean by "un-HN-like parts"?

Re: Jike: The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene

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I believe the site is: http://okjike.com/ (?) I tried signing up - couldn’t get pass the sms verification - I am in some European country.

god, even the chinese use that atrocious art style now. owari da

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Re: Jike: The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene

#17
post #12

So is this like the Chinese Hacker News, or what?

More like Bluesky in the sense that it's a niche app popular among parts of the "tech scene," in particular the un-HN-like parts. I don't think there's a direct Chinese equivalent to Hacker News, but https://v2ex.com/?tab=all might come closest.

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Re: Jike: The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene

#18

Every guild or community should have a high quality discussion forum like hackernews. But assuming you can translate the learnings from Hackernews to another platform, how exactly would you ensure high quality?

Hacker news is great but it's not a social platform. Hard to follow someone, hard to chat, hard to form groups discussing various topics. It would be nice to have features of hacker news and reddit combined.

No it attracts certain kind of people. Which in result degrade the level of discussions. It is near perfect as it is right now

Re: Jike: The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene

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Every guild or community should have a high quality discussion forum like hackernews. But assuming you can translate the learnings from Hackernews to another platform, how exactly would you ensure high quality?

Hacker news is great but it's not a social platform. Hard to follow someone, hard to chat, hard to form groups discussing various topics. It would be nice to have features of hacker news and reddit combined.

HN not having those features is a feature in and of itself. It does one thing and does it well, not having the same features as Reddit is exactly why it's better than Reddit.

Re: Jike: The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hacker news is great but it's not a social platform. Hard to follow someone, hard to chat, hard to form groups discussing various topics. It would be nice to have features of hacker news and reddit combined.

HN not having those features is a feature in and of itself. It does one thing and does it well, not having the same features as Reddit is exactly why it's better than Reddit.

It’s also why old reddit is still mostly great, because it also lacks those "features".
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