Re:Ask HN: Where can I discuss random ideas?
by andai on Friday December 09, 2022 @11:21AM
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From the dates it looks like even you gave up on your own platform. Don't you know, when reddit started, the admins had a "username" box when they were submitting new posts, so they would type in fake usernames and make it look like the site had a lot of users.
Re:Ask HN: Where can I discuss random ideas?
by PaulHoule on Friday December 09, 2022 @11:39AM
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If you were starting something like that today you might have GPT-3 write the posts. That's one case where you really might not care if it is right or wrong.
Re:Ask HN: Where can I discuss random ideas?
by cheeseblubber on Friday December 09, 2022 @12:02PM
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We're actually working on an open source Google-searchable chat communities https://github.com/linen-dev/linen.dev. We also support syncing from Slack communities. https://www.linen.dev/s/futureofcoding is a pretty active community with interesting technical discussions.
Re:Ask HN: Where can I discuss random ideas?
by culi on Friday December 09, 2022 @11:30AM
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I want to make a browser extension that aggregates sites like reddit, hackernews, lobste.rs, and more niche sites like this and hubski
Many other extensions have tried the whole "comments on any website" thing but that always runs into the same challenge of the network effect
What's needed is an aggregator that lets you see all the comments made on any website your on through all of these already existing communities.
I think it would actually end up benefiting smaller sites, especially if they have more of a focus on niche topics
If anyone has any ideas on how to create a community like this, I'd love to hear it. I'm really not a fan of chat rooms other than for casual chats between friends because there's no search engine indexability.
I guess in the meantime, I'd say Twitter is probably the best I think. Everyone's on there, and people are incentivized to increase their following. I just wish they'd do away with that 500 character limit since that confines longer form writing to Twitter threads and makes actual dialogue totally impractical.