Why did you guys come here instead of Startupping.com?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24377

by master54 • 19 years ago

5 18 19 years ago

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master54• 19 years ago

Startupping came about first. So why didn't you hang out at their forums there instead of here?

eposts• 19 years ago

PG & YCombinator Its the community that makes the forum.

Mistone• 19 years ago

seems like the purpose of the sites are different, I've only been to startupping 1 or 2 times so I'm no expert. I visit YC News to get interesting news bites and the occasional comment conversation.

davidw• 19 years ago

I follow both, actually. This site is better for news/discussion, I think that site is a little bit better for practical advice.

spiralhead2• 19 years ago

1. Never heard of it.

2. First impression not good. The interface looks like any other random vBulletin website. Just the news please

spiralhead2• 19 years ago

i enjoyed the 10 commandments post though. I feel bad now

aaroneous• 19 years ago

I visit startupping every once and a while, but the interface for news.yc is so much better - I can scan the posts and pick out the interesting stuff quickly.

danw• 19 years ago

I'm not fond of the structure of forums, news.yc matches the way I hunt for information better.

papersmith• 19 years ago

Also, there're too much long texts on the front page. news.yc only has short titles that are much easier to digest.

dawie• 19 years ago

news.ycombinator is clean and easy to use. Its simple and it doesn't get in my way of reading news. I can discuss stuff if I feel like it.

webwright• 19 years ago

Yaw, I agree that the home page is more difficult to digest. I'd collapse it.

SwellJoe• 19 years ago

As others have pointed out, the UI is ornery at Startupping. There's just a lot of random crap on the front page...some crap down the middle, some crap on the right side, oh, there's some more crap down the right side.

If it were my site, I'd:

Kill the big posted on date box beside every item--the way it is now, the date looks like the absolute most vital piece of information on that page. I'm pretty sure that wasn't the intent.

I'd shrink to title down to just the title. The author, the category, "no comments", needs to go away or to the bottom of the entry.

I'd reduce the size of the summaries

I'd probably shrink the content area width...I have a hard time scanning it quickly.

cmars232• 19 years ago

I think I got here from programming.reddit, saw some interesting links, and added the RSS feed to GReader.

The connection from a community I already know is more important than the self-advertised topic of interest for a news aggregator site. I trust reddit and my homies on del.icio.us more than some site that claims to be all about some general topic of interest like startups. If such a site has something worthwhile, someone on reddit or del.icio.us will probably link it anyway.

I suppose for others, they could have a similar feeling about slashdot, or digg, or something else. At some point, I think users just get comfortable with a reasonable amount of signal to noise on a site and stick to it.

sabat• 19 years ago

I'm on startupping's rss feed, and sometimes I might peek at an article.

But YC.News is really useful. For one thing, we're a collection of very like-minded people. But most important, the community-voting means that most of the articles that rise to the top are worth reading -- sometimes worth studying carefully!

It's usefulness that matters to me most. I hang out here because I like to be around bright, motivated people. (And no, I'm not karma-whoring.) ;-p

falsestprophet• 19 years ago

We came here because of Paul Graham (peace and blessings be upon his name).

chaostheory• 19 years ago

I don't like Startupping.com's ui. Your stories are at the forefront, and not the ones we want to pick

imp• 19 years ago

information density

Goladus• 19 years ago

I heard about Y Combinator from a number of sources which I can't remember now. I found the forum from there and liked it quite a bit.

I've never heard of startupping.com, and news.yc has more than enough for me to digest at the moment.

Why did you guys come here instead of Startupping.com?

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