Show HN: Pressn't, a site where you can only have a single post

Re:Show HN: Pressn't, a site where you can only have a singl... by permo-w on Thursday December 29, 2022 @01:54PM (#34176328)

I don’t think this solves one of the huge problems with culture on the internet right now, which is stacks vs queues

with only a few exceptions[1], all social media, including HN, present information to you in a stack, most recent first, mostly with no option to change that. this forces everything to be shallow, surface-level and understandable to beginners, otherwise you don’t attract new viewers or followers

even beyond losing their attention spans, people are being trained out of learning things in depth. of building upon knowledge. it’s sad and it’s probably going to be damaging in years to come

[1] - youtube playlists are the only exception that jumps to mind, but even youtube is driving hard in the other direction, removing “sort by oldest” from channels and heavily pushing shorts

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Re:Show HN: Pressn't, a site where you can only have a singl... by joshlemer on Thursday December 29, 2022 @02:06PM (#34176500)

Could you expand on this? I struggle to think of how a site like HN or Reddit could work in a first-in-first-out fashion while also taking into account vote score. Perhaps you mean that a post's score should not decay over time and fall off the front page, or at least should do so more slowly? Or it should be able to be bumped to the front if there's new activity (comments/votes)? Would be interest to hear your thoughts

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Re:Show HN: Pressn't, a site where you can only have a singl... by Bonooru on Thursday December 29, 2022 @03:09PM (#34177274)

Not OP, but you could have a priority queue where you acknowledge each element as up/down/neutral and the change in score that you provide would affect it's location in other people's queues.

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Re:Show HN: Pressn't, a site where you can only have a singl... by permo-w on Monday January 02, 2023 @04:24PM (#34223866)

well there could be more scope for playlist-style content. this especially applies to reddit and HN (and twitter I suppose, although I’d probably exempt Twitter from my criticism in the first place as it’s supposed to be a bit ephemeral and shallow). users could collate content into “playlists” which would then be voted into a no-or-slow-decay alternative frontpage

in order to allow new content to rise, you’d either need a pretty complex algorithm, or just another “new” page

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Re:Show HN: Pressn't, a site where you can only have a singl... by aj7 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @01:55PM (#34176344)

I had hoped Elon would work on things like this.

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Re:Show HN: Pressn't, a site where you can only have a singl... by permo-w on Monday January 02, 2023 @04:53PM (#34224182)

maybe he will. I doubt it though

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