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medv

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blobly.medv.io 28d ago

Blobly

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blobly.medv.io 1mo ago

Blobly

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deployer.org 2mo ago

Deployer V8

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crow.watch 4mo ago

Crow Watch: A Hacker News Alternative

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medv.io 4mo ago

Banned on Lobsters

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medv.io 5mo ago

Personal Blog Should Have Comments

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currency-rates.github.io 5mo ago

Show HN: Currency Rates on GitHub Pages

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github.com 7mo ago

Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL

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medv.io 8mo ago

Things I Don't Like in Configuration Languages

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fx.wtf 1y ago

Fx – terminal JSON viewer and processor

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github.com 1y ago

Fx 36

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medv.io 1y ago

Perfect Is the Enemy of Good

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github.com 1y ago

Generate CSS Selectors from an Element

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github.com 2y ago

Show HN: Megaera – GraphQL to TypeScript code generation tool

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github.com 2y ago

Fx 35.0.0

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github.com 2y ago

Expr 1.16.5

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github.com 2y ago

Zx 8.0

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github.com 2y ago

Bash/Zsh autocomplete for JSON fields

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github.com 2y ago

Fx JSON viewer now supports YAML

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expr-lang.org 2y ago

Prime Numbers with Expr – Expression Language

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github.com 2y ago

User contributed GitHub achievements and badges

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github.com 2y ago

Expr 1.16

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expr-lang.org 2y ago

Expr – 5 Years in the Making

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github.com 2y ago

Expr Release v1.15.8

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numbr.dev 2y ago

Numbr – A smart calculator combined with a notepad

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github.com 2y ago

Fx 31.0.0 Release

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github.com 2y ago

Show HN: GitHub Badges for Profile Readme.md

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github.com 2y ago

Show HN: Custom GitHub Achievements Defined by Users

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fx.wtf 2y ago

Fx – Terminal JSON Viewer

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google.github.io 2y ago

Zx – a tool for writing better scripts

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The offline community does not have a problem with spammers/impersonators. For online communities this is much more difficult. I don't know what kind of struggle and filtering HN implemented to deal this it. But I do not want to build complicated anti-abuse systems. Right now registration is open, after certain size i will "restrict" registrations.

The https://crow.watch is heavily inspired by lobster. basically same algorithm, same flagging, amd tag filtering. one key difference is [show] tag with dedicated "Show" page. A feature from HN, which lobster does not have. Invite-only where is only to prevent spam in the future. I will rephrase the login page. Will make it "open" and as we see spammers will close down.

those looks not very promising.

building a community is hard. but i'm dedicated to a building a small tech community anyway.

this is why i'm investing into building crow.watch.

I was a lobster user for 7y. but i find it now way to big, and moderation is strange sometimes. I think, having an additional community is nice. No need to concentrate everybody in one or two website. And there are multiple communities already! I thought I can build one with not such restrictive self-promo rules as on lobster.

Comments need protection, otherwise you get bombarded with spam. That alone is a ridiculous amount of "hard".

This is not that hard. But your mileage may vary.

Comments need a database, that is objectively harder than using Jekyll or the other examples you give.

Are we engineers or not?

But the statement that it's not hard is objectively false.

Yes, I agree.

People spend hours polishing personal websites. I want to encourage building comments systems! This is as fun and as valuable!