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Re: Ask HN: What are some niche or alternative news aggregators worth checking out?

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Post by aldoushuxley001 »

scrollaway wrote: post #17

I highly recommend Tildes. It's a small, tight-knit community, pretty well moderated. It's currently my favourite news aggregator. https://tildes.net/ Email me if you want an invite.

The first thread I opened up had a full discussion on how people on the right are either literally nazis or atleast effectively nazis... might be a bit too much of a small, tight-knit community for me.

Not bad looking UI though

Re: Ask HN: What are some niche or alternative news aggregators worth checking out?

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Post by scrollaway »

aldoushuxley001 wrote: post #41
scrollaway wrote: post #17

I highly recommend Tildes. It's a small, tight-knit community, pretty well moderated. It's currently my favourite news aggregator. https://tildes.net/ Email me if you want an invite.

The first thread I opened up had a full discussion on how people on the right are either literally nazis or atleast effectively nazis... might be a bit too much of a small, tight-knit community for me. Not bad looking UI though

I'm @Adys in that thread arguing against that FWIW, and the votes are essentially even. I find that there's very few "empty" discussions, and it's always possible to actually talk to people. But yeah, fair warning, this is a pretty strongly left-leaning site, and you'll have people with pretty strong opinions about it.

Tildes is also a wonderful community outside of political topics. But if you're looking for news aggregators specifically, most news will likely be political in some form, and have people arguing over politics in its comments. Hell, look at HN.

I agree on the UI btw. There's a few themes you can try as well. It's simplistic but practical.

Re: Ask HN: What are some niche or alternative news aggregators worth checking out?

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Post by justhw »

thekyle wrote: post #44

I've been running Hoxly News for a little while. It's a news aggregator that provides a small crowdsourced summary for each story. https://news.hoxly.com

Nice site. Did you build it using opensource software or custom? I'm looking to run similar site for a different niche.

Re: Ask HN: What are some niche or alternative news aggregators worth checking out?

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Post by boramalper »

solarkraft wrote: post #40
boramalper wrote: post #2

http://lobste.rs Though it’s not unlike HN so not sure how worthy it is if you are already here.

I like the articles, but would like to be able to contribute. Do you happen to be willing to share an invitation?

I’m not a member either, just lurking.

Re: Ask HN: What are some niche or alternative news aggregators worth checking out?

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Post by rcarmo »

joeyrideout wrote: post #22

Newsmap is my go-to: https://newsmap-js.herokuapp.com/ It's a real-time graphical representation of the most popular news stories in a variety of topics in global or (configurable) regions. Very useful. Shoutout to the original newsmap.jp which unfortunately requires Flash.

I had no idea that was still around, thanks!

It seems to get its news from Google, which means that (just like Google News) it makes a complete mess out of Portuguese news coverage by mixing in Brazilian ones...

Re: Ask HN: What are some niche or alternative news aggregators worth checking out?

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Post by rcarmo »

ggttuu wrote: post #16

One option might be to use an ebook reader called 'Calibre' which also has a news aggregator built-in having over 1600 news sources from around the world.

I used to use Calibre and get fresh news on my Kindle every morning, back when there was no decent coverage in the subways...
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