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Re: Echo JS - JavaScript News

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what's with JavaScript community to make everything end in "js"? You don't see Ruby guys ending every one of their product names in "rb" or Python guys in "py".

The NumPy, Scrapy and SciPy folks may disagree :)

don't forget the web.py folks!

Re: Echo JS - JavaScript News

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post #16

what's with JavaScript community to make everything end in "js"? You don't see Ruby guys ending every one of their product names in "rb" or Python guys in "py".

The java equivalent was '4j'. It's mildly useful on a mixed community like HN, you've got some idea before you click through what the target developer audience is.

Re: Echo JS - JavaScript News

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The first thing this has me thinking is that it looks like a "subreddit" of HN. I'm surprised to not have seen or heard of a Reddit style site with HN voting rules on it.

Re: Echo JS - JavaScript News

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Apart from the fact that its JS only, how is it better than HN? Why not just use HN to follow topics you like (JS in this case)?

I think it's a simple matter of focus. One could extend your logic and say 'Why don't you get your tech news from NY Times instead of Hacker News, since they have a tech section in their website ?'

True, but making a NY Times-like website for tech news wouldn't work either. HN works for techies because its clean and simple, and the karma/upvote mechanism keep the content relevant. So there is a difference from NY Times.

My question then remains, what is different?

Re: Echo JS - JavaScript News

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post #24

The first thing this has me thinking is that it looks like a "subreddit" of HN. I'm surprised to not have seen or heard of a Reddit style site with HN voting rules on it.

HN voting rules? I thought reddit used the exact same voting system as HN.

Re: Echo JS - JavaScript News

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Things that annoy me on most forums are the clutter added by signatures, join date (which I always confuse with posting date), and the ubiquitous avatar.

I really enjoy that HN lacks these distractions, so the presence of the avatars at the posted site was a disappointment. Still, it was much better than most.

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