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Re: 1M Users

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Post by cdelsolar »

Sparkyte wrote: post #5
pech0rin wrote: post #4

Looks interesting. Definitely nailing the old myspace aesthetic. I’d be more curious about active users versus registered users. Social networks are usually defined by activity. Unfortunately registered users probably contains a lot of bots and spammers.

When I saw this I was like ooh noes not myspace all over again. I feel this style may actually be a hinderance for adopting more users. People really want something more reactive like Discord. Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good and that is why most people won't abandon it. It is like comparing Slack to Teams. It will be a long time before anything catches immediately up to Slack or Discord…

Hmm.. I love Discord?

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Post by aethertron »

seanthemon wrote: post #136
DiscourseFan wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

my work and art are more important than me

Your work and art are an expression of you. How can you express something effectively that you deem unimportant?

Not to downplay my personal importance (=make an ostentatious display of humility, lol) I can work on art and projects to express the importance of other things in the world that aren't myself.

Re: 1M Users

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Post by hinkley »

ryukoposting wrote: post #140

This site is more usable on my phone than 90+% of "mobile sites." It loads instantly, even on a crummy cell connection. There's no ad divs that load 5 seconds after everything else and screw with the layout while you're reading something. There's no attempt at "infinite scroll," which universally results in stuttery scrolling and a generally sluggish experience. No fake modals with infuriatingly small close buttons,…

I enabled ad blocking on my iPad primarily because a webcomic I read put one of these fucking ads at the top of the comic page, and it seems to be “optimized” to load in just as I’m about to click the comic image to zoom in on it. I must have clicked that ad on accident a hundred times and I hate it. How many cookies is that? How many networks now know how much more about me. Fuck that. You’ve gotten a lifetime of ad revenue from me boyo and we are done. Everybody is done.

Re: 1M Users

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Post by can3p »

nunobrito wrote: post #134
can3p wrote: post #100

Nice! Personally I think that the more niche social networks we have the better it is. The big problem with the mainstream networks is that they've evolved from a media to communicate and keep in touch with real people into a platform for influencers and businesses. The common complaint I hear about instagram for example is that every second connection of yours would try to sell/teach something and that's just garbag…

Good post. Have you already took a look into NOSTR? It permits both private/niche communities and public (global) texts.

Just checked it, thanks for pointing to it. I think it's more of a decentralized encrypted messaging platform, and my idea was to have a way constrain the visibility of the conversations to naturally connected groups of people while giving a way to slowly expand the connections rather then fighting censorship

More or less like in real life, where you chat a lot with your friends, but necessarily with some of their friends you don't know that well. In this case you would ask your friends for the introduction and that what I've tried to model.

One other feature I've been thinking about was to make the moderation automatic in a sense of making signups possible only via invitation and putting some weight on it. Basically if you invite somebody who's misbehaving on the platform and they get flagged, you get penalized as well unless you do it first. My theory is that it should make users care about their digital surroundings.

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Post by grumple »

mg wrote: post #133
WoodenChair wrote: post #90

Whatever you think of the site itself, this is prime HN content. A kid in high school starts a site that scales to 1,000,000 registered users while working on it during nights and weekends in college. If the founder is on here, what tech stack did you use and how long had you been programming before you built it?

He uses "vanilla PHP/HTML/MySQL": https://x.com/AnTheMaker/status/1530851239310802947

So the same stack as 20+ years ago… good job, kid.

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Post by simplify »

seanthemon wrote: post #136
DiscourseFan wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

my work and art are more important than me

Your work and art are an expression of you. How can you express something effectively that you deem unimportant?

First, humility is an under-appreciated virtue in today's world.

Second, the idea of "your work and art are an expression of you" is dangerously self-centered, in that it can limit your growth by pushing you conform to acceptance over aspiration.

Re: 1M Users

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Post by qingcharles »

IsopropylMalbec wrote: post #138
rust1npeace wrote: post #86

I like the UI. I think the old UI of web is pretty cool. I think making old UI websites with modern backends would be a great design choice.

That's what I have been trying to do with the B3ta site[0]. It is a UK humour site forum that was founded in the very early 2000s. I have been looking after it's backend for about five or so years, trying to modernise what I can and keep it stable and maintainable. I have learnt a lot of respect for people who create a site like Spacehey, it quickly spirals in to a job in itself. [0]: https://b3ta.com/

b3ta is awesome. It's had a crucial, but mostly unknown, role in Internet culture for two decades.

Thank you for your service :)

Re: 1M Users

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Post by IsopropylMalbec »

qingcharles wrote: post #149
IsopropylMalbec wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what I have been trying to do with the B3ta site[0]. It is a UK humour site forum that was founded in the very early 2000s. I have been looking after it's backend for about five or so years, trying to modernise what I can and keep it stable and maintainable. I have learnt a lot of respect for people who create a site like Spacehey, it quickly spirals in to a job in itself. [0]: https://b3ta.com/

b3ta is awesome. It's had a crucial, but mostly unknown, role in Internet culture for two decades. Thank you for your service :)

Thanks, I only do it for the childish laughs! It crazy how it shaped so much yet only a very specific slice of people know it exists.
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