Show HN: I actually read the “Do Elephants Have Souls?” article

by jacamera • 7 years ago

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jacamera• 7 years ago

Hey, HN!

I’m the cofounder and sole developer of Readup, a social reading platform built around the central tenet that reading an article to completion should be an essential prerequisite for sharing, commenting on or rating it.

The link I shared is to my profile page which shows a reverse-chronological list of articles that I’ve posted. In order to post an article, one has to read it in our iOS app or in Chrome with our browser extension installed. We measure the exposure time of the words within the device’s viewport in order to determine how much of the article has been read.

My motivation for reading the “Do Elephants Have Souls?” article came from the mention of it in the New Yorker article “The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News” in which the author cites its posting to HN as an example of what happens when users rush to the comments section without having actually read the article.

Would love your feedback on the product and I’d be happy to answer any and all questions!

Jeff

bill_rr2• 7 years ago

Great post!

I love this: "a social reading platform built around the central tenet that reading an article to completion should be an essential prerequisite for sharing, commenting on or rating it."

In other words: "People can't have opinions on stuff they haven't read."

bill_rr2• 7 years ago

I'm Bill, Jeff's co-founder. That recent New Yorker article about HN also appeared on Readup: https://readup.com/comments/the-new-yorker/the-lonely-work-o...

Readup is still small. But even with just a few people in each thread you can still feel the difference. On Readup, every comment comes from a person who read the entire article at hand. Let us know what you think! We're all ears!

Show HN: I actually read the “Do Elephants Have Souls?” article

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