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Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

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You should post this on /r/RedditAlternatives/ as well if you haven't already. Also, clickable link: https://non.io/#all

I did, but they weren't a fan of the paid model for interaction: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/147qzfb...

Yeah, I suspect paid social media isn't going to work. It sucks because it's probably the only sustainable model. VC has really warped people's perception of software costs.

Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

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Your site doesn't think "$&m22KPBeB$!7&^l" is a strong enough password. Uhm… okay?

Interesting, I was able to sign up with it.

Can I ask if you're using a password manager / what browser you're using?

Also for context, instead of testing password length/number of characters, I look for overall entropy in the formula of [alphabet length for char set used]^(number of letters in password). The one you described is well above the limit.

Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

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I feel like having people get paid for upvotes is going to create a massive amount of bad incentives.

It absolutely will. I had toyed with the idea of something like this before, but wasn’t sure what the behavior would look like until I found the cryptocurrency subreddit.

They have a system that rewards a monthly crypto amount based on the number of upvotes you received that surprisingly has an actual value that you can sell for. It’s largely led to a race to the bottom where comments and posts largely ignore any long form discussions or accuracy in favor of majority appeal.

Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

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My first 5 minutes have been positive. I've worked for years on a similar platform but never expected to have the time to ship, so I appreciate that you've implemented a few patterns/features that I was hoping for, namely tag-based subscriptions.

Bug report: on latest Firefox with uBlock Origin, I have a strange UI bug on the root/home page: without any activity from cursor or otherwise, there is a dropdown that appears to show emails saved in my browser for form auto-fill. This is visible in the top left which seems to be in the same place where your registration sidebar is.

I have quite a number of thoughts and questions which I'll move to the platform. Great job.

Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

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%98 lurk, %1.9 comment and %0.1 make content that make the rest of the group come in and lurk / comment in the first place. You probably want to invert the payment model in a way and still give money to content creators, or make it a platform which content creators can get paid and take a cut, like substack.

But you have a chicken/egg issue there too, which is why coke when it was first getting started gave coke to various soda fountain places to bootstrap demand in the first place.

Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

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I tried to register, but my 30 character random letter password with numbers letter and characters "wasn't complex enough".

Are you using a password manager? If so which? If you add the letter "a" at the end, and then delete it, does it work then?

I'm using webcomponent form elements, the spec for which is relatively new. I suspect it isn't working well with auto-filled passwords from them.

Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

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Congrats on the hard work, and the idea is fine, but the problem is that tech like this is a cheap commodity in a massively oversaturated space, and without a hook that makes the platform exceptional (innovative/clever/beautiful design, unique aggregation features, inherently interesting content, reimagined user/content/moderation dynamics etc etc), this kind of thing is dead in the water because it lacks a network e…

Mostly agree. The screenshot in the top right looks good, like professional app I might actually use. But I want to actually browse the site and check it out without first slogging through a registration process. If it’s free to view/browse anyway, then enable doing that without registering. Register and pay if you want to post.

Edit: You can browse without registering after all, here’s the link: https://non.io/#all (didn’t see it on the landing page or OP post).

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