A New Online Commmunity: Hubski

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by insomniasexx • 13 years ago

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What do you think? Will it be successful? Is there room for another online community to thrive?

In terms of Hacker News, will it ever get "too big" like reddit? Will it slowly die like the eternal september of Slashdot? Or will it continue to thrive?

secstate• 13 years ago

In an age of REST, I'm not sure why sites still insist on hiding behind GET parameters for primary functions of the site.

I think one of the more successful aspects of Reddit is that each section has it's own full URL, making it easy to share and for engines to index.

Witness:

http://hubski.com/tag?id=askhubski

http://reddit.com/r/askreddit

EDIT: (facepalm) Yeah, I meant GET parameters not requests ... both are obviously GET requests

mdellabitta• 13 years ago

Aren't those GET requests?

pspeter3• 13 years ago

I think he meant ids or slugs in the url as opposed to query string parameters. You are correct that both are GET request.

forwardslash2• 13 years ago

Hubski is based off of news.arc and the arc server doesn't make clean URLs easy, at least not that I've seen yet.

mvkel2• 13 years ago

2+ years old and average comment count per post: 2.

I don't think it'll be replacing Reddit anytime soon.

akkartik• 13 years ago

1. It's not about replacing anybody.

2. Quality > Quantity. (It's fine if you disagree; see 1.)

3. You're looking at the wrong page[1], because the frontpage cycles randomly through different lists, because the frontpage is about discovery rather than popularity, because the whole point of the site is to not rank by popularity, because the site is about quality and not quantity.

[1] Here's the closest hubski has to a 'frontpage': http://hubski.com/global?id=9. Average comment count is more than 2.

mvkel2• 13 years ago

I was going by the headline: "Hubski: the new Reddit?"

zalew2• 13 years ago

I just registered and can't get out of the "You are not following anyone yet!" page. clicking on the main logo, feed link, doesn't work. I have to log out to see the normal page.

insomniasexx2• 13 years ago

Look below the "You are not following anyone yet" and click a name to follow them.

zalew2• 13 years ago

but I don't want to follow anyone at the moment, I want to look at the stories and comments on the main page.

noisy_boy• 13 years ago

Interesting: http://hubski.com/b

markkat2• 13 years ago

:) The house is a link.

deveac• 13 years ago

Hubski is an excellent, if small, aggregator. I buy into the philosophy that following quality users/posters yields better results than following a topic sorted by upvotes en masse. I know there is plenty of debate to be had there for some.

One thing to keep in mind with Hubski is that you do t need to look at it in terms chasing who posts the best links (as you define it). I find a better way can be to follow those that post the better comments, -this can yield a far more satisfying and consistent experience than any social aggregator I've used.

I think "follow user" approach also lends itself to maintaining quality as the site scales, although Hubski is too small right now to declare that to be the case definitively. Im curious to see hiw this pans out as the site continues to grow.

It's also come an impressive distance from a UI standpoint. Coded in arc, it started as a near clone of HN (though with its own mechanics right out of the gate).

It is worth wandering around if you're looking for a general interest community that isn't hellbent on growing at all if if it means sacrificing an ounce of what the founders believe makes the place worthwhile.

dekz• 13 years ago

It took me far too long to realise that I'm not an idiot and some of the pages[1] are actually broken in my version of Chrome (OSX 26.0.1410.65). So no images are loaded from the linked article.

[1] http://hubski.com/pub?id=96613

insomniasexx2• 13 years ago

I'm on OSX Chrome V 29.0.1547.57 and they are loading. Do you want to upload a screenshot and I'll pass it on to the smart programmer guys to see if it can be fixed?

Is it from Hubski or the linked site? (http://www.astro.uvic.ca/~alexhp/new/figures/starrynight_HST...)

A New Online Commmunity: Hubski

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