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Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by bramhaag »

burgerrito wrote: post #23

Anyone knows any other similar sites? Personally I'm looking for "HN but for music". The only other website I know is https://lobste.rs , and this website looks like it uses Lobsters' software

I don't think there is something like that for music specifically, but there are still many traditional forums with interesting discussions. See for example these:

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/

https://www.progarchives.com/forum/default.asp

https://forum.metal-archives.com/

Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by bdno86 »

burgerrito wrote: post #23

Anyone knows any other similar sites? Personally I'm looking for "HN but for music". The only other website I know is https://lobste.rs , and this website looks like it uses Lobsters' software

I'd love there to be a HN for high-impact medical articles. Or alternatively for someone to build a tagged layer on top of HN with clear 'biotech' and 'medical' tags.

Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by hubraumhugo »

I've seen many "HN for X" projects for various niches now, and they all suffer from the chicken/egg problem of getting a critical mass of participants.

Isn't game development already discussed here?

I actually built a side project that categorizes front page articles so I can filter for topics. Here's an example for recent gamedev content: https://www.kadoa.com/hacksnack/d57360e8-1eb1-4800-a711-f0d5...

Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by rglullis »

I think that after "this meeting could've been an email", we should start thinking "this website could've been a Lemmy instance".

Even if you don't want to federate, all the functionality is already there, you can have a selection of web/mobile clients and you can apply whatever moderation policies you find suitable for the community you want to grow.

And if you want to extend the reach and make it easier for other people to participate, you can open federation and get instance access to the millions of people in the Fediverse.

Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by rglullis »

vayan wrote: post #6
cersei wrote: post #5

Is there a RSS feed? Why not make this a community in Lemmy?

not everything needs to be federated

It doesn't need to, but a social site should.

And even if you want to give an elitist vibe to your community by making it invite-only, you can set up Lemmy to be without federation and with restricted applications.

Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by ramon156 »

hubraumhugo wrote: post #34

I've seen many "HN for X" projects for various niches now, and they all suffer from the chicken/egg problem of getting a critical mass of participants. Isn't game development already discussed here? I actually built a side project that categorizes front page articles so I can filter for topics. Here's an example for recent gamedev content: https://www.kadoa.com/hacksnack/d57360e8-1eb1-4800-a711-f0d5...

I had an idea last week for a dutch version of HN, only to realize that dutch people already use HN

Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by frogulis »

innerHTML wrote: post #19

I love the idea, unfortunate the way this site is presented is such a incredibly busy and noisy way, it makes it so uncomfortable to look at I couldn't use this. I think hacker news aced it with the clean look, although sometimes I wish for a dark theme.

A few colour changes and it would look fine. I don't know if it's the same software as lobste.rs, but it looks almost identical apart from the colours.
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