Crow Watch: A Hacker News Alternative

vivzkestrel wrote: post #3

- lots of hacker news alternatives out there - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44973208 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967391 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789661

One seems to be completely empty and the remaining two seem to just be ideas for pro-ai and anti-ai respectively?

Re: Crow Watch: A Hacker News Alternative

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 4:31 PM UTC

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Re: Crow Watch: A Hacker News Alternative

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Post by subscribed » Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 2:45 AM UTC

> invite only

Unkindness of the Crow.

Not even my local, most elitist hackerspace requires an introduction and, apparently, ideally a dossier.

I'll pass.

Re: Crow Watch: A Hacker News Alternative

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Post by vrighter » Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 5:50 AM UTC

what's the difference from lobste.rs?

Re: Crow Watch: A Hacker News Alternative

#9

Post by medv » Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 4:08 PM UTC

vrighter wrote: post #8

what's the difference from lobste.rs?

I was a lobster user for 7y. but i find it now way to big, and moderation is strange sometimes. I think, having an additional community is nice. No need to concentrate everybody in one or two website. And there are multiple communities already! I thought I can build one with not such restrictive self-promo rules as on lobster.

Re: Crow Watch: A Hacker News Alternative

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Post by medv » Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 4:09 PM UTC

vivzkestrel wrote: post #3

- lots of hacker news alternatives out there - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44973208 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967391 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789661

those looks not very promising.

building a community is hard. but i'm dedicated to a building a small tech community anyway.

this is why i'm investing into building crow.watch.