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Re: Ask HN: more sites like HN

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Post by polyfractal »

leon_ wrote: post #83
WillyF wrote: post #16

Rand Fishkin and Dharmesh Shah started Inbound.org - http://inbound.org/ - to be a similar community for online marketing. The links posted are pretty good, but so far the comments aren't adding a ton of value. Hopefully that will improve.

I don't think the comments will get better. It's a SEO site after all and you just need to take a look at sphinn.com to see what happens if you cater to a community of spammers and shadowy salesmen.

I don't think this is a fair comment. I don't consider someone like Patrick McKenzie to be a "spammer" or "shadowy salesman", but I do consider him to be very good at SEO, copywriting and marketing.

HN has a weird doublethink when it comes to SEO/marketing. We are all "hoorah!" startups, but how dare you try to make your site more appealing to a potential customer.

Sure, there are tons of scammers that use SEO...but there are tons of scammers in every field.

Re: Ask HN: more sites like HN

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Post by milkmiruku »

samaraga wrote: post #14

Reddit's subreddits are really a nice place to be. Not the funny/wtf/vidoes/politics etc, which will overwhelm you quite fast. There are some really useful subreddit which are of good quality, but because of their smaller sizes, are difficult to know about. I feel these subreddits are worth a try: compsci ( http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci ) explainlikeiamfive ( http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/ ) programming…

My techy pseudoreddit url; http://www.reddit.com/r/technology+webdev+web_design+netsec+...

http://metareddit.com is also handy

Re: Ask HN: more sites like HN

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Post by leon_ »

polyfractal wrote: post #91
leon_ wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think the comments will get better. It's a SEO site after all and you just need to take a look at sphinn.com to see what happens if you cater to a community of spammers and shadowy salesmen.

I don't think this is a fair comment. I don't consider someone like Patrick McKenzie to be a "spammer" or "shadowy salesman", but I do consider him to be very good at SEO, copywriting and marketing. HN has a weird doublethink when it comes to SEO/marketing. We are all "hoorah!" startups, but how dare you try to make your site more appealing to a potential customer. Sure, there are tons of scammers that use SEO...but…

> try to make your site more appealing to a potential customer

No problem with that but spamming google with bought links, etc. isn't what exactly makes a site appealing to customers.

Re: Ask HN: more sites like HN

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Post by duck »

c16 wrote: post #48
duck wrote: post #27

You might find my Hacker Newsletter project ( http://hackernewsletter.com ) useful if you're not on HN all the time. It comes out every Friday. In addition to that, I'm working on another newsletter that will provide even more reading on a daily basis. Details on that will be in next week's issue. :)

Just subscribed. You should have a 'Tweet this' button after entering your email- I'd tweet it out :)

I'm actually working on that right now, but thanks for the reminder!

Re: Ask HN: more sites like HN

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Post by eneveu »

I'm going to play devil's advocate here, but I don't see how you can run out of reading material on HN. I use Jeff Miller's newsyc50 feed (which contains all submissions with more than 50 points), and I have a hard time keeping up...

http://feeds.feedburner.com/newsyc50 --> 265 posts per week (according to Google Reader)

http://feeds.feedburner.com/newsyc20 --> 400 posts per week (according to Google Reader)

That said, the question is still interesting. I'd like to find sites similar to HN focusing on other themes.

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