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> Personally I'd try to target groups that reddit alienates. Who are these groups? I'm (re)starting development of my own social news site, and I'm looking for a userbase to cater to.
The Anime weeaboo japenese 13 year old female furries/biochemical engineers/lawyers.
Gaia Online - (http://www.gaiaonline.com/)
They're not off to a good start. I just spent 10 minutes filling out the text boxes on page two, and it just lost all of that info. I hope the site works better than the survey.
I filled out the first survey then stopped at page two. I'm too lazy to fill in all those boxes. I hope they didn't lose all that "valuable" info they got from me on page 1.
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Funny because the only "real" difference between reddit and digg is the fact that reddit has an unlimited amount of categories. That and people seem(ed) more interested in the reddit categories than the comparable digg ones.
Reddit allows adult content. That makes a big difference.
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I remember that reddit was very hard to set up. Is it any easier nowadays?
You run a single script which ends with "Congratulations! reddit is now installed" Assuming everything works as planned. https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/install-reddit....
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> This is a bloody social news site, as trivial an application as it gets. I'm gonna have to disagree with you there. It's a fairly complex transactional system. > One man can write a half-decent one in a week. No, one man can write something that resembles a social news site in a week, but building a good one that scales takes a bit longer. :) > And for ramping it up, even the scaling roadblocks and tricks are old n…
> No, one man can write something that resembles a social news site in a week, but building a good one that scales takes a bit longer. :) That totally depends on your available toolset and experience.
That's either ignorant or boastful (or both). Any decent programmer will admit that they can't build a good and scalable anything in a week from scratch.
If you count your "toolset" as an entire framework that does what you want already, then sure, maybe it's possible. Otherwise you're just being foolish.
>What they didn’t mention is that we’re rebuilding it from scratch. In six weeks. Famous last words. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
What are you building from scratch. What exactly do you think you're building? I take "from scratch" to mean "we are totally rethinking everything! Look - lets not b fucking morons. The ONLY thing bought was digg.com the name which has a PR/publicity pull. You will fail - digg has sucked and will suck and even the cult of personality around kevin rose evaporated, like milk, immediately after joining Google. The fact…
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It's not just your phone. I have an iPhone and an iPad (well...and another convertable netbook "tablet" thing that has been sitting in a project box for over a year), and I don't really "do" mobile. Mobile news ? Are people that attention deficient?
My favorite time to read news is my commute. I don't get your point.
Please don't use your phone while doing this.