Tell HN: Hacker News is almost reddit

Re:Tell HN: Hacker News is almost reddit by cjc on Thursday May 14, 2009 @12:23PM (#609055)

Glad you asked:

* more news about Startups, less news about things tangentially related to startups

* less churn on the homepage

* a community made exclusively of people actually building websites

* a limit on accepting new members

* less talk about useless academic subjects

* more "review my new project" submissions

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News is almost reddit by brk on Thursday May 14, 2009 @12:31PM (#609079)

a community made exclusively of people actually building websites

Do you actually believe that "Startups" and "Hackers" ONLY build websites?

Assuming that you yourself "actually build websites", this seems like a good project to take on. The HN code is open source, it would be neat to see someone make an adaption of HN that fits the spirit of what they believe the site should be about.

I'd be very curious to see what the community and activity level around such a site would look like.

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News is almost reddit by hvs on Thursday May 14, 2009 @12:31PM (#609078)

That doesn't sound like "Hacker News" at all. That sounds like "Startup News". Why are people building websites the only ones you find helpful? Why are academic subjects bad?

I agree that there are more than a few links that don't interest me, but that doesn't mean I throw up my arms and say, "Well, that's it! This site has jumped the shark!"

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News is almost reddit by chaosmachine on Thursday May 14, 2009 @12:54PM (#609133)

Hacker News was originally called Startup News.

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News is almost reddit by pg on Thursday May 14, 2009 @02:07PM (#609269)

I think you're just at the wrong site. A community made exclusively of people building websites would exclude a lot of smart and interesting people. That's only a small subset of hackers, even in the narrow sense of the word.

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News is almost reddit by app on Thursday May 14, 2009 @12:27PM (#609067)

* less Erlang posts

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News is almost reddit by noodle on Thursday May 14, 2009 @12:26PM (#609061)

would you be willing to post up a membership fee for something like this?

or, perhaps you'd like a much more heavily meritocracy-based community?

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News is almost reddit by dbul on Thursday May 14, 2009 @02:01PM (#609262)

In the end, what it comes down to is that you want something (which I also want, except for limiting new members) which is personalized. I couldn't agree more. HN is too general. There needs to be a way to customize, and only a client-side script won't do.

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