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Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

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It's time you stopped creating accounts to prosecute this fixation on HN.

Agreed with the other poster. You are great at not letting this hateful rhetoric fester. Most times I see anything like that by the time I refresh the page I'll notice the comment is already removed.

Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

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non content related feedback I like how minimalist the UI is, but I might want a little bit of padding on the sides? I feel like HN does that part pretty well even though it's a little more decorated than this. Also it wasn't obvious to me that the website is sort of a "preview" of the front page and the app is the main platform, i'll have to check that part out too.

Thank you for the feedback. As a design decision I did want to completely forego landing pages and upsells, both the sites and the app just "drop you in". I could probably make it a bit more clear without losing the minimalism of the page though that the real experience is in the app, not on the site.

The site serves mostly to allow people to share public posts and profiles from the app.

Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

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The biggest piece of feedback I think I have gotten from posting here is that the nsfw content is a bit shocking which I get. Sorry about that. My guess is that if you just scrolled twitter or whatever by new exclusively unfiltered you wouldn’t have that different an experience. On the one hand I do think there is something interesting about the rawness of this network but also some sort of smart nsfw filtering is cl…

You probably shouldn’t show NSFW to non-logged in users.

Otherwise you could run afoul of various laws, since technically minors can access it

Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

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The biggest piece of feedback I think I have gotten from posting here is that the nsfw content is a bit shocking which I get. Sorry about that. My guess is that if you just scrolled twitter or whatever by new exclusively unfiltered you wouldn’t have that different an experience. On the one hand I do think there is something interesting about the rawness of this network but also some sort of smart nsfw filtering is cl…

You probably shouldn’t show NSFW to non-logged in users. Otherwise you could run afoul of various laws, since technically minors can access it

I will add a tagging system and hide nsfw posts from non-logged-in non-opted-in users this weekend.

Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

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What’s wrong with Grindr, the biggest app for queer and trans people to meet?

I... am not sure if this is a joke or not. Grindr is not a community or posting tool. It's a hookup app.

In a sense it is almost an anti-community tool, I've heard it being partly to blame for the decline in business at some bars.

Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

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> It has grown in the last year to about 4,000 monthly active users. I think it could grow way beyond that this year. Is it really a good idea to paint a bullseye on this group in the US right now?

How is creating or operating a community “painting a bullseye” ? And tbh now more than ever I think it’s important for communities like this to exist.

Interpreting Animats' question as concern for the user population, I think it's a valid one.

The new administration in the US is openly hostile, and a lot of damage could be done to peoples' lives if, say, the community was hacked and private email addresses (or other PII) was leaked.

And I also agree with you -- now's the time for those of us who can afford it, to fly our ally flags as loudly and proudly as possible.

OP: Please make sure your secure coding and operational security practices are excellent and meet the challenge here.

Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

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Good work! Let’s say this network continues to grow; how do you anticipate funding its future operations?

A decent percent of people are voluntarily paying for it right now, enough that it is already profitable at about a 10:1 ratio of profit vs cost of operation. The platform can grow quite a lot without expenses going up since my main expense is just server power, and I am not using much of that at all right now.

I think I have engineered it all to scale well, and I don't anticipate costs increasing. The plan right now is to not run ads, and to make almost all features free for all users in perpetuity.

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