Lobsters • Hacker News Board

Re: Lobsters

#91

Post by nreece » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 3:49 AM UTC

edw519 wrote: post #28

When it comes to learning, sharing, and growing together, online or otherwise, there are no competitors, winners, or losers. Just a bigger pie. (Good luck to lobste.rs, but I'll probably be staying right here on hn.)

I disagree with that notion.

I've been a contributor on HN for around 5 years and over the period of time I've seen a constant decline in the quality of comments, community support (read some of the 'Show HN' posts) and to an extent even the quality of the stories submitted.

A new improved hacker/startup community can be a serious contender for replacing HN (in its current state), just like Reddit is/was to Digg and others.

Re: Lobsters

#92

Post by jsprink_ban2 » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 3:51 AM UTC

why-el wrote: post #80

sgdesign wrote: post #48

This headline does seem unusually misleading. I already came across this site 10 days ago, it doesn't seems like it was "launched" in any fashion? And it's not by Yehuda Katz, and also doesn't seem like a HN "competitor" since it probably doesn't want to attract as big an audience. So basically there are three things that are flat-out wrong with this headline.

It is a HN competitor. The person who built says they did so out of frustration with HN.

The motivation for creating something is not necessarily its primary purpose.

Re: Lobsters

#93

Post by marshallp » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 3:51 AM UTC

samgranieri wrote: post #30

marshallp wrote: post #29

Great, another a site with ruby on rail kids discussing shiny web design.

whats wrong with that?

It's great if you're a kid, but when you grow up you should work on solving cancer or making spaceships.

Re: Lobsters

#94

Post by plinkplonk » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 3:52 AM UTC

subsection1h wrote: post #64

I want a site for discussing software development news that has the equivalent of a kill file. There are a handful of prolific users at Hacker News who post multiple low-quality messages every day. I avoid Hacker News because of users such as these. I honestly believe that at least a few of these users are secretly employed by the companies that they promote and defend daily. I don't know if they're paid to post here…

+1 for a kill file. I'd also love a 'follow' mechanism. Only a small subset of HN users post deeply insightful posts and if I could see only their posts and comments, that would be a great time saver.

Re: Lobsters

#95

Post by nikcub » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 3:56 AM UTC

* clone HN

* put a link to it at the top of HN

* expect something different to HN?

Re: Lobsters

#96

Post by reustle » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 3:56 AM UTC

I feel it's pretty hard to look at. HN is simple, but still designed well. This, on the other hand, feels cramped.

Re: Lobsters

#97

Post by tedunangst » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 3:57 AM UTC

Lazare wrote: post #90

spitfire wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, there's almost zero doubt I've annoyed a moderator at some point. There's no list of moderators anywhere is there? I could tick off the ones I haven't annoyed.

Nope, no list of moderators. You'll never know who, and you'll never know why, and you probably won't be able to get it reversed. Also, Macro: The step beyond slowbanning is hellbanning, where nobody can see your comments except you, and users with "show dead" on. You've been hellbanned for over a year. As to why...maybe some mod thought your first comment was a bit content free. Maybe they were just having a bad day…

wow. Macro posts one slightly vapid but inoffensive comment and is struck by instant death lightning.

Re: Lobsters

#98

Post by w1ntermute » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 3:58 AM UTC

One thing I liked right off the bat was a good mobile experience. The fact that you still can't get this on HN is quite appalling to me.

Re: Lobsters

#99

Post by zizee » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 3:59 AM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #65

jsprink_ban2 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got the same treatment he did -- and have on accounts I have made since -- and we exchanged emails during development. We both went through each others' posts and couldn't find any rational reason for the treatment (slow banning and hell banning, in both of our cases). Lack of transparency is a pretty big deal on this forum, and once you've crossed Paul -- without knowing how -- it's scorched earth on any account y…

Graham allows the dumbest people on the Internet to come onto this site to berate startups he all but begged people to create, but hellbanned a guy who pooped out a better version of HN in his spare time, for nothing. For fuck's sake.

I honestly can't tell if you are agreeing with what the parent wrote or disagreeing.

I'm leaning toward disagreement.

Re: Lobsters

#100

Post by citricsquid » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 3:59 AM UTC

ilaksh wrote: post #85

Looks cool. But what about people like me who don't have any friends but still have interesting ideas?

I would like to see an invite only site that had an application process where an inviter can pick out applications they like from the pool. This way the people of value but without networking are fine.