Lobsters

#1

Post by relation » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 1:15 AM UTC

Re: Lobsters

#2

Post by olalonde » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 1:31 AM UTC

No about page, no way to register, no mention of Yehuda Katz...

edit: Apparently, the site was launched by Joshua Stein (after getting hellbanned from HN), not Yehuda Katz. https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...

Re: Lobsters

#3

Post by why-el » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 1:57 AM UTC

olalonde wrote: post #2

No about page, no way to register, no mention of Yehuda Katz... edit: Apparently, the site was launched by Joshua Stein (after getting hellbanned from HN), not Yehuda Katz. https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...

Yehuda is one of the active users: https://lobste.rs/u/wycats

Update: The site is also open source: https://github.com/jcs/lobsters

Last shameless update: Would love an invite. Email in my profile.

Re: Lobsters

#4

Post by wmf » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 2:02 AM UTC

About Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/bkeYe9/about_lobsters

This isn't linked anywhere obvious on the site itself.

Re: Lobsters

#5

Post by xutopia » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 2:06 AM UTC

It's invite only. Tried a few different urls and got this one: https://lobste.rs/signup

Re: Lobsters

#6

Post by andrewljohnson » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 2:07 AM UTC

I was trying really hard to register so I could make some votes and comments, but could not.

Re: Lobsters

#7

Post by tptacek » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 2:08 AM UTC

Neato.

Re: Lobsters

#8

Post by akashshah » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 2:09 AM UTC

According to https://jcs.org/projects/ "Lobsters (2012 - present) - A link aggregation site that I created after I was banned from Hacker News."

EDIT - also found https://lobste.rs/s/bkeYe9/about_lobsters which explains some features

Re: Lobsters

#9

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 2:09 AM UTC

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Re: Lobsters

#10

Post by mattdeboard » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 2:11 AM UTC

Honestly Prismatic is so very good at content curation -- at least for me and my friends -- that a "tech/startup/general geekery news" content aggregator is superfluous. I come to HN now to see the comments on the articles I read on Prismatic.