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Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by chefandy »

stared wrote: post #53
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...

For me, "HN for X" sounds like a "Reddit channel with a sense of grandeur". Starting one is easy, but maintaining both quality and popularity is hard - here, HN is a rare exception.

Do you think your considering HN a clear exception to being “Reddit with a sense of grandeur” might have more to do with your vantage point than your ability to gauge the value of online communities?

Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by rsolva »

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...

Using federated forum solutions would at least partly solve the chiken/egg problem. Forum software like NodeBB and reddit/HN-type variants like Lemmy, opens the possibility of having a topic based communiy, while still being open for interactions from the entirety of the Fediverse.

This already works well for Mastodon and Pixelfed; I follow accounts on mastodon.art from my Pixelfed account.

The reach of folks at the art focused Mastodon instance is not limited to their community. The same is possible for reddit and forum like communities!

Look at it like this; every forum becomes a potential sub-forum in the global network.

Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by burgerrito »

bramhaag wrote: post #31
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/

Ahhh, speaking of traditional forums, I personally like https://www.skyscrapercity.com/, it's still surprisingly active. It's also the only where I can get the most updated news about public transport/infrastructure in my country (Indonesia).

Also I just remembered that rateyourmusic apparently have their own forum too: https://rym.fm I've never taken a deep look at it, but it's surprisingly... active?

Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by t_mann »

dewey wrote: post #60
t_mann wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For me, "HN for X" sounds like a "Reddit channel with a sense of grandeur". it's a bit sad seeing such a derisive comment about self-hosting on HN

It’s not about self hosting, it’s about how community building is hard.

the post clearly implies that opting for independent hosting instead of creating a subreddit (the admittedly easier route, for community building as well as technologically) for a niche forum indicates a "sense of grandeur"

Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by esalman »

iib wrote: post #45
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.

As a sibling commenter said, I think the background texture is the most distracting. Other than that, I also think the tag density is higher than on Lobsters, where they seem to be using mostly one, or at most two, tags, whereas this website's front-page is using around three for each post. Maybe the color scheme as well. And perhaps more negative space can be removed by making the column wider, like it is on HN.

As a gamer though I immediately noticed how easy it was to visually filter the content by tags and drill down into the details at will. It's an uncommon texture but it works for me.

Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by mstade »

stkdump wrote: post #55
stared wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me, "HN for X" sounds like a "Reddit channel with a sense of grandeur". Starting one is easy, but maintaining both quality and popularity is hard - here, HN is a rare exception.

Also I thank that moderating a popular forum is dang hard.

I see what you did there, well played! :o)

Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by Avicebron »

t_mann wrote: post #65
dewey wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not about self hosting, it’s about how community building is hard.

the post clearly implies that opting for independent hosting instead of creating a subreddit (the admittedly easier route, for community building as well as technologically) for a niche forum indicates a "sense of grandeur"

You might be kind of young, so there was this time when "Facebook for health" and "amazon for X" were used as legitimate pitch items as a way to frame the potential of whatever CRUD app someone was selling as a billion dollar visionary idea. It was very tiring. The modern equivalent is something like a "DALL-E 0llamma MLA is all you need" post about a random arvix article about ML

Re: Hacker News for Gamedev

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Post by Anon4Now »

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.

> hacker news aced it with the clean look

It's the old school magic of nested 's.

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