Ask HN: I am building an alternative to HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8765793

by yuashizuki • 12 years ago

5 19 12 years ago

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what features would u like to have?

webkike• 12 years ago

the popularity of HN

yuashizuki2• 12 years ago

i cant make it popular, its on others if they like it, and thats not a feature

mod• 12 years ago

It most certainly is a feature.

eibrahim• 12 years ago

Please do. I am tired of HN BS but keep coming back because it has great links. But some of the commenters are just assholes :)

ChrisGranger2• 12 years ago

Welcome to the internet?

HN, in my experience, is one of the better communities online. Trolls seem to be few and far between, and when they do show up, they're downvoted into oblivion. If you think HN is full of assholes, you're going to be sorely disappointed by most other sites too...

Warewolf-ESB2• 12 years ago

Yes I would agree. I've almost always found HN comments to be helpful and useful. At the worst they are neutral/add no value but are definitely not nasty trolls.

bikamonki• 12 years ago

Substitute popularity (karma bubbling) for relevance (tags+search). I open HN home page 2-3 times per day (seldom I need to click on more). Of all the results, 3-4 are relevant to me but I still need to quickly read all the titles to find them. Build something smart that lists only what is relevant to me and you have a killer app.

yuashizuki2• 12 years ago

For example what is it that you find relevant today on HN. I usualy find all links to be pretty intresting.

thepredestrian• 12 years ago

Something like quora where you get to follow topics of your choice.

SamReidHughes2• 12 years ago

I would actually like a site that's identical to HN, except that comments lacking proper capitalization are auto-killed.

ChrisGranger2• 12 years ago

I expect you're being facetious here, but that's something a coder could make a browser add-on for, if only for the fun of it.

Any takers?

SamReidHughes2• 12 years ago

I don't want to ignore their posts, or have them invisible from me. I want the people that fail to use proper capitalization to have their posts automatically rejected and, to be mildly facetious about it, repeat offenders should be hellbanned or publicly shamed. It's disrespectful to your readers to make such a show of putting zero effort into your posts, as if you're too precious to use the same shift keys that everybody else bothered to use.

Edit: Okay, I am being slightly facetious in expressing how strongly I care about this.

taprun• 12 years ago

I would like a more powerful search.

Warewolf-ESB2• 12 years ago

notifications for replies and comments that you can adjust as needed.

sideproject• 12 years ago

We built one - or more like, we're building one. Not a HN clone, but a tool to let you create a HN clone.

http://postatic.com

It's a work in progress, but there are handful of cool sites that have been created so far.

Examples

http://tools.robingood.com http://self.postatic.com http://www.slackchats.com

chadkruse• 12 years ago

Looks nice and clean...good work. Reminds me of Telescope (built with Meteor): http://www.telesc.pe/

sauere• 12 years ago

Make submissions tag-able so i can customize my front page (perhaps only allow predefined tags). There are a number of topic-categories i do not care about and they withhold interesting links.

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