Needs a favicon. But this is great! Super excited to dig in.
Hacker News For Africa
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#32Needs a favicon. But this is great! Super excited to dig in.
Also, I'm curious to what degree Africans reject being grouped in the monolithic term "Africa". That's a billion people. Cape Town / Nairobi / Lagos / Cairo are completely different places.
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#33This really does not sound like a good idea. I come from a third world country/region too and I would hate having an HN for my own region. What is the purpose? I want to hang out with the best and the best are here in HN not in some backwater forum that none of the top echelons of HN will visit. It will just become a ghetto. Who in their fucking right mind would want to live or hangout in a ghetto.
Unless your purposes is something else this is just a terrible idea. But if your purposes is really something else why the heck call it a hacker news.
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#34As a South African, I am excited by the prospect of this. That said, I'm often frustrated by the signal-to-noise ratio that so often accompanies discussion about technology and entrepreneurship in Africa. Often, I hear substance-free palaver [1, 2] about how X can be done to solve some problem or alleviate some woe in Africa. As a result, I hope that this site will focus on real entrepreneurship - like M-pesa and the Silicon Cape, and less on enthusiastic but ultimately futile or non-actionable content.
[1] http://africa2point0.org/web/index.php/en/ - "creating an enabling platform for African entrepreneurs to flourish"
[2] http://www.newsofrwanda.com/featured1/17405/oxford-universit...
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#35Makes me wonder when will HN consider creating subcategories ala reddit. Surely the site gets enough traffic to take it to the next level.
Why would anyone want HN to be on that level?
It would be interesting to discuss and share some news in a different language other than English. I had in the past stopped my self to publish some interesting stuff because I am too lazy to translate content.
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#36Why all of these "HN for x" sites also copy HN's less-than-optimal¹ look? (¹ I'm being nice here.)
It's hosted using Arc, the open source variant of HN.
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#37Why all of these "HN for x" sites also copy HN's less-than-optimal¹ look? (¹ I'm being nice here.)
It's hosted using Arc, the open source variant of HN.
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#38What software did you use for this?
It's hosted using Arc, the open source variant of HN.
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#39It's great initiative. For Europe, we also have similar thing but unfortunately it is not active. Maybe admin can update the UI for HN Europe.
I'd love a HN for Europe with moderate activity.
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#40Makes me wonder when will HN consider creating subcategories ala reddit. Surely the site gets enough traffic to take it to the next level.
I'm a big fan lobste.rs's many-to-many approach of submissions and categories.