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Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by azernik »

aphextron wrote: post #107
znpy wrote: post #78

Signed up, wandered around, here are my impression. * Nothing fancy, nothing new, nothing impressive. I wouldn't spend time on this site. * The graphical design wasters most of my screen estate. * The side panel overlaps with the content when the window is not in full-screen. * If you register without an email, it is impossible to add one. * Did I mention that 60% of my screen estate is wasted ? * Reddit is open sour…

I agree it's not perfect but we seriously need a reddit alternative. The community there is simply too toxic and I've had to quit it. If there were a HN like community centered around regular news aggregation I would be sooo happy. As is, it's impossible to find a news feed I trust anymore. Google news is infiltrated with fake clickbait nonsense, and I wont even get started on Facebook.

Since this is project is coming out of the voat.co community, I expect the community will be more toxic than Reddit's, not less.

EDIT: The article implies a connection, but as cracell pointed out, there is in fact no association, even historical or in personnel.

Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by giarc »

aphextron wrote: post #107
znpy wrote: post #78

Signed up, wandered around, here are my impression. * Nothing fancy, nothing new, nothing impressive. I wouldn't spend time on this site. * The graphical design wasters most of my screen estate. * The side panel overlaps with the content when the window is not in full-screen. * If you register without an email, it is impossible to add one. * Did I mention that 60% of my screen estate is wasted ? * Reddit is open sour…

I agree it's not perfect but we seriously need a reddit alternative. The community there is simply too toxic and I've had to quit it. If there were a HN like community centered around regular news aggregation I would be sooo happy. As is, it's impossible to find a news feed I trust anymore. Google news is infiltrated with fake clickbait nonsense, and I wont even get started on Facebook.

I think the problem is that anytime a group gets that large, it's going to have pockets of toxic users. So unless the plan is to forever jump ship from one product to the next, best bet is to find yourself smaller subreddits to make your home.

Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by tyingq »

codegeek wrote: post #102
tyingq wrote: post #2

"The app itself is powered by Laravel, Vue.js, Socket.io, and Node" Is there another Laravel other than the php one? Seems odd to roll out with both php and node.js. I don't know why you would need both. Edit: Yes, I see each has it's strengths. But that has to drive a lot of doing the same thing twice, in two languages...they both interact with the same data. I would guess time-to-market is important at launch to re…

I have played around a bit with socket.io and the reason you use Node for it is that socket.io itself comes with a in built node server for backend. So it is much easier and faster to fire up a server to run socket.io using node.

Sure. Why would you though, not use node.js for the rest of the site? I'm not complaining about either php or node.js. I'm complaining about using both of them for a brand new site.

I assume that both would need to understand the concepts around: users, admins, moderators, topic areas, topics, threads, banning, moderating, vote counts, sessions, and so forth. And interacting with all of that both serverbrowser and serverdatabase. Feels like a lot of duplicated classes, marshalling, etc.

Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by xxxssszzz »

aphextron wrote: post #107
znpy wrote: post #78

Signed up, wandered around, here are my impression. * Nothing fancy, nothing new, nothing impressive. I wouldn't spend time on this site. * The graphical design wasters most of my screen estate. * The side panel overlaps with the content when the window is not in full-screen. * If you register without an email, it is impossible to add one. * Did I mention that 60% of my screen estate is wasted ? * Reddit is open sour…

I agree it's not perfect but we seriously need a reddit alternative. The community there is simply too toxic and I've had to quit it. If there were a HN like community centered around regular news aggregation I would be sooo happy. As is, it's impossible to find a news feed I trust anymore. Google news is infiltrated with fake clickbait nonsense, and I wont even get started on Facebook.

Don't see how this even on the way to being a viable alternative. It appears to have started by already replicating many of the same toxic subs and doesn't appear to be doing anything systematically different which could help prevent build a less toxic community.

Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by pavel_lishin »

aphextron wrote: post #107
znpy wrote: post #78

Signed up, wandered around, here are my impression. * Nothing fancy, nothing new, nothing impressive. I wouldn't spend time on this site. * The graphical design wasters most of my screen estate. * The side panel overlaps with the content when the window is not in full-screen. * If you register without an email, it is impossible to add one. * Did I mention that 60% of my screen estate is wasted ? * Reddit is open sour…

I agree it's not perfect but we seriously need a reddit alternative. The community there is simply too toxic and I've had to quit it. If there were a HN like community centered around regular news aggregation I would be sooo happy. As is, it's impossible to find a news feed I trust anymore. Google news is infiltrated with fake clickbait nonsense, and I wont even get started on Facebook.

> The community there is simply too toxic and I've had to quit it.

Which community? There are thousands of subreddits. Are you talking about the people who use the default front-page subreddits?

Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by cracell »

azernik wrote: post #111
aphextron wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree it's not perfect but we seriously need a reddit alternative. The community there is simply too toxic and I've had to quit it. If there were a HN like community centered around regular news aggregation I would be sooo happy. As is, it's impossible to find a news feed I trust anymore. Google news is infiltrated with fake clickbait nonsense, and I wont even get started on Facebook.

Since this is project is coming out of the voat.co community, I expect the community will be more toxic than Reddit's, not less. EDIT: The article implies a connection, but as cracell pointed out, there is in fact no association, even historical or in personnel.

Lead developer says it has nothing to do with voat here https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/5qhz99/...

'The whole thing is based on voting which is why it has "vote" in it. It has nothing to do with voat.co. I guarantee that'

Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by Dahoramano »

Nice mobile web app! Works like a charm on my shitty 3rd world phone.

It would be nice to share a batch of new links on channels one is the administrator of, perhaps for the first 15-30 days, to be able to populate channels.

Also: Where do I go to edit channel settings as a moderator?

Also: It would be nice in the case of my channel to make available content filters, like what is done in /r/science.

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I'm a language learning specialist and full-time learner. Here's my new channel:

A channel dedicated to learning, meta-cognition, and domain-specific resources. https://voten.co/c/learnyousome/

Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by [deleted] »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #115
aphextron wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree it's not perfect but we seriously need a reddit alternative. The community there is simply too toxic and I've had to quit it. If there were a HN like community centered around regular news aggregation I would be sooo happy. As is, it's impossible to find a news feed I trust anymore. Google news is infiltrated with fake clickbait nonsense, and I wont even get started on Facebook.

> The community there is simply too toxic and I've had to quit it. Which community? There are thousands of subreddits. Are you talking about the people who use the default front-page subreddits?

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Re: Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

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Post by Melk »

cracell wrote: post #116
azernik wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since this is project is coming out of the voat.co community, I expect the community will be more toxic than Reddit's, not less. EDIT: The article implies a connection, but as cracell pointed out, there is in fact no association, even historical or in personnel.

Lead developer says it has nothing to do with voat here https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/5qhz99/... 'The whole thing is based on voting which is why it has "vote" in it. It has nothing to do with voat.co. I guarantee that'

No thanks.
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