kindlez

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Come join us at Snapzu. I'm serious.

First start with proofreading ;)

Honestly, just read other works and continue practicing. After a while you will create your own style.

We run a reddit alternative/competitor at http://snapzu.com and we've been mentioned a few times recently in reddit threads mentioning the whole Ellen Pao censoring debacle.

As you can imagine, it's actually quite tough getting a community off the ground, but we managed to get just under 10,000 members in around 2 years, and it's just speeding up as demand goes up and as word spreads of an alternative to go to.

The problem reddit is having is that they grew up (over 10 years) as a free-speech platform, and just recently changed their policy that promotes "safe places", essentially censoring any free-speech that they consider "harassment". This is literally a licence to be able to mute (shadow ban) anyone that steps up against them. People are getting really fed up. It's actually quite interesting to see how all of this unfolds.

Try our platform at http://snapzu.com

Of course! I don't think HN has a PM option so I'll just post a few for anyone to grab, first come first serve:

SPZU-AI1ABLII8IIZP

SPZU-0KUXJ0U86OA7W

SPZU-QNOKQG5Y4U1G3

SPZU-GQI7XVHO2ZSOA

SPZU-6TBV5ATE15JWH

SPZU-WW5ICQ53ZBB4O

SPZU-34MFZ049TSKT9

SPZU-T7G36FFZRYC1G

EDIT: I exchanged the old used codes for new fresh ones.

Try our platform: http://snapzu.com

We have tons of differentiating features from reddit and HN.

Good stuff, incredible how little competition there was back then!

$200 seems like a lot. $50-80 would be the sweet spot, but I'm not sure what your costs are, or the quality of the product.

You should give Snapzu (http://snapzu.com) a try. We're trying to keep improving on it, so any feedback is welcome!

Yeah brutal. Who up voted this?

I hear good things about Berlin.

I don't see anything more than a launch e-mail request?

You should check out http://business.snapzu.com or http://tech.snapzu.com (same service, different categories)

It's a more visual approach, and new submissions start small and get bigger as they get more popular (amount of votes) on the grid.

For full update blog post check here: http://snapzu.com/teamsnapzu/release-440-private-msgs-additi...

Please post any feedback, questions, suggestions, etc.

Our list view is a more traditional style of viewing content that is available just a click away (next tab over). Hope that helps.

We have (and try to keep improving) an intelligent system that prevents "brigading" by limiting the amount of power from individual sources (such as someones followers) that would otherwise give a huge and unfair advantage. We aim to have the social features as a secondary companion to naturally shared content (only used as tiebreakers, etc). This means that a user with 5000 followers will have little advantage to a user with 5 followers. The same goes for the prevention of too many image/video/gif snaps beating out quality written articles on our front page, which may take a considerably longer time to consume and longer to vote on.

There will always be obstacles and problems when trying to pave a new direction, but that's the best part. It's what keeps us going ;)

I cannot find a way to reply to the first portion of your comment because I cannot speak for our current users and what their individual interests are. Everyone is provided the same tools to use and they use them as they best seem fit.

I do understand your point though. One of the highest of our priorities is to continue developing ways to discourage crappy/lazy/junk content from being posted and voted on. And that's why were trying our best and actively listening to feedback like the one you just provided.

Thanks, it's much appreciated.

Thanks for the feedback! We've already played around a LOT with those and there's not much we can do about that. The point of the tiles it to show popularity (more popular = bigger).

If you don't like the grid view, you can always switch to the list view (which actually has more sifting functionality) by clicking on the tab near the top.

Ah, that's just for fun, and we wanted something different that's not really out there. But it's also there to combat spam, trolling, etc.

Can you elaborate a little? Me and the rest of the team would love the feedback. Thanks in advance.

Thanks for feedback!

Tip: Just click on the favicon or the URL (green link) to go directly.

We are trying to create a "hub" experience where you can build on top of just a simple link (add text, video, list, gallery etc) and others can contribute comments, related links, votes, etc.