If I launched a photo sharing site called Laughing Squid, a large percentage of my ideal demographic would hate me. If I put a lot of work into something, why would I blow my own foot off for cheap publicity?
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8 days. 8,000 forums
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Yes we have. Mr Poole "contacted" us: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20408037
It was a very simple question - have you sorted out the legal issues or not? His lawyers sent you a C&D; you responded to that C&D and now you've launched. Considering he's been known as moot since 2003, and is known by millions of people as moot, and has a strong link to online discussion forums, I'd think he has an excellent case. Since, apart from his name, the primary meaning of moot is "closed to debate" (not "o…
"Moot" is one of those words whose meaning has evolved to contradict itself [1]. Certainly its primary dictionary definition is "open to debate" [2,3]. Plus the word derives from Old English for "meeting" and is cognate with modern English "meet" [4]. So the Finns do have a case.
But it's a weak case, because (as you imply) that original meaning has been obsolete for a long time, and in modern English people only use "moot" to mean "not worth debating". According to [4], "moot" began its pivot in the 16th century when law students used the word for practice debates where they would argue about mock issues—things that didn't really matter—in order to hone their skills.
Hmm, but then it is internet forum software, isn't it? "Arguing about things that don't matter" might be a perfect match!
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym
2. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/moot
3. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moot
4. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&s...
Re: 8 days. 8,000 forums
#63Are there any active forums besides the main moot.it/forum? I tried going to relatively common keywords and most are just people kinda squatting on them during the initial landgrab.
Here are some: http://moot.it/forum/#!/setting-up#working-moots
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#64It is really snappy and nice, however I still don't understand why there isn't nested threads. It's such a pain trying to navigate around trying to figure out what is in reply to what.
Moot has a concept of "paths" which allow you to setup unlimited discussion hierarchies. All parent paths contain all the moots from the children. We're putting together more docs to help cover these concepts soon! Single thread (which we call a moot) doesn't support threading. If you try to browse bigger threads here in HN or in Reddit you'll soon realize that you'll get lost. Especially when you come back to the si…
It's not about being lost, it's about not being able to read bigger threads.
The answer is no-thread.
I have yet to look at the features you provide, in detail; however, am I the only one who thinks that the word "moot" is the opposite of what you're trying to achieve? Why would anyone moot anything if they're trying to converse?
Also, your embedding option looks lot more similar to branch.com which I think is strugglig to make a space.
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#65Any plans to allow sites to use their existing authentication/identity system, rather then require users to signup with moot to participate in the forum?
SSO is coming for you to be able to integrate into your authentication system.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Moot is primarly meant for websites and the goal is to keep discussion and the users on the site. This will make users come back and potentia.ly increase traffic on the site. We're launching email notifications next week.
> the goal is to keep discussion and the users on the site. This will make users come back Back when I first got online and only had one forum I was interested in, this was true - but it really doesn't scale. Trying to keep up with even 3 active forums by visiting each in turn is painful. Since then, I've pretty much ignored any information source that doesn't have either RSS or email feeds, since I can multiplex hun…
You are absolutely right hence these forums are going to constantly suffer, or they'd be taken in by marketers trying to make a buck over filthy Ads. I don't think people can have serious discussions on such forum platforms who try to appeal to everyone equally.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like we say; we've been up only 8 days. Our forum is currently the most active one and you'll probably get the best picture there. Here is a playground forum where you can fool around freely: http://moot.it/demos/forum.html
This is hot. However, the "Log in and post" button is inactive out for me. Shouldn't that immediately launch a login/register interface? Otherwise, I have to drag my mouse all the way over to the "log in" link.
It shouldn't be inactive if you have types a post. If, after typing something, it's still inactive then that is a bug! Please let us know what browser you are on in that case and we'll get that fixed.
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#69What about SEO? It should be important for a forum. I found most of the smaller forums that i know with google search.
Re: 8 days. 8,000 forums
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Moot has a concept of "paths" which allow you to setup unlimited discussion hierarchies. All parent paths contain all the moots from the children. We're putting together more docs to help cover these concepts soon! Single thread (which we call a moot) doesn't support threading. If you try to browse bigger threads here in HN or in Reddit you'll soon realize that you'll get lost. Especially when you come back to the si…
> If you try to browse bigger threads here in HN or in Reddit you'll soon realize that you'll get lost. That never happens to me, especially on reddit, where threads are collapsible. How do you end up lost? > Especially when you come back to the site it's impossible to know what has changed. No it's not. There's a reddit gold feature for that.
You end up lost when you see there's a new reply on a thread you've been following (post count is 67 but yesterday it was 66) and then you go trying to find it for about five minutes. You end up re-reading about 30% of all the posts until you finally find what you were looking for. Repeat until you've read the entire thread 20 times.
But that's not a bad experience compared to when you go read a threaded conversation for the first time when there's over 50 posts — the whole thing is just unreadable. Add to this that even the most technical people can rarely reply to the right post 100% of the time.