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Looks like the post ended up being removed for no other reason than the title :/

Would you mind upvoting the new submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23780314

Thanks for the comment!!

Reposting with new title because original was downvoted for no reason other than the title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23779616

I'm a huge fan of Clay - wish he'd bring his essays back online :/

I think he's right re: _equal say or power devolves into unequal power_

Maybe the key is not giving everyone equal power, but distributing power in away that captures each member's preferences for who should wield that power?

+1

I'd also recommend the Programming Phoenix book, it's still in beta but the chapter on Channels just came out:

https://pragprog.com/book/phoenix/programming-phoenix

An alternative that worked well for me and seems a bit more streamlined to install: http://mchung.github.io/heroku-buildpack-wordpress/

I've found that the figaro gem is also a nice gem to use re: secret tokens and ENV variables in general - esp on Heroku. https://github.com/laserlemon/figaro

thanks! that's what not getting enough sleep will do to you...

I implemented most of the feedback from yesterday, and wanted to follow up. Thoughts?

when someone introduces themselves to you, you are notified via email, this way you don't need to constantly check the app for new intros. the only way to retain your email is to ask for offline_access

Unfortunately, with FB all apps are required to ask for basic information. All we have control over is the additional data (email). You are right though, FB sometimes asks for/gives away a lot of data unnecessarily.

Sorry to hear that. We went with the smaller font to fit everything on one page. Working on it now. As far as FB, we only ask for your email.

It's anonymous in that you don't have to give your name to anyone at any point. We keep it confidential. The FB requirement is a way of ensuring a few things, but primarily that you are acting as yourself (with your own photo).

Backstory: This concept spawned from feedback received on HN for a previously failed idea. I look forward to your feedback and to getting to know some of you!

Yes. The biggest losers are all the entrepreneurs that could have benefited from this program had it been allowed to stay on the front-page.

Original Post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2472089

I noticed this post on the frontpage and upvoted it. It was rising, and was suddenly gone. Anyone have an objective explanation?

Re: differences - I would say Reddit is 1) disorganized and 2) has its focus primarily on front-page. I don't know many people who know how or have to time to dig through all the sub-reddits offered to maybe find something they like. This structure does work for many of us, and that's cool. I think it can be improved upon, though.

Same with your argument about untapped markets. I'm sure Hackers had a preferred method of communicating pre-HN (IRC?), but something better and more structured came along and displaced it.

Re: HN business model - paid job board, paid newsletter, hacker conferences, hacker news apparel, regular old google ads, etc. there would be many paths to take if this was a for-profit endeavor.

Awesome! Would love to keep in touch - my email is in my HN profile.

I used the rounded triangle tool (you can find it under the Custom Shape Tool selector in Photoshop) on a 10px by 10px canvas.

Breefield, what was the event you were trying to add? Did you make sure to put the correct start and end times?

Working on an error page now.

Sure! http://www.dafont.com/a-safe-place-to-fall.font

No problem - I appreciate the good feedback!

Finding the 'Paul-Graham-of-Knitters' for each community is exactly how I was thinking of approaching this. Getting those people to buy in to the concept will be a challenge, indeed - but not impossible.

With Reddit, the difference is in how customizable it is. You can hit "Politics" and get a list of posts loosely related to politics. But you can't get a feed specifically for "New York Politics" or better, "New York Republicans".

I may be wrong, but HN could be a business if PG wanted it to be.

We all take pride in being outliers, I agree. However would you agree that even HN has it's share of trolls? How does HN keep them out?

I believe there are people out there who take topics (of the non-technical variety) seriously enough to fight for the maintenance of their community. Hopefully I'm right!

Thanks again for the feedback.

thanks! though it seems my post has been killed from the HN front page...

I'll work on a post - thanks for the feedback.

But to answer your question, by "graceful combination of scopes" I mean you can follow Hackers in New York (people who have saved Hackers + New York as a favorite) just as easily as you can share stuff with Hackers interested in Ruby on Rails (Hackers + Ruby on Rails) or even with Hackers interested in Ruby on Rails in New York (Hackers + Ruby on Rails + New York).

Ah. Let me rephrase again: it's " a Hacker News for specific interests"

I would say both. I would say it is substantially different, consider the following:

"This is a fundamental flaw in communities on the net in general, they don't gracefully combine different scopes." - Hacker News comment by jacquesm

Perhaps a better way to put it would be "a Hacker News for all interests"

No scraping, just seeding to show how it would work. You can filter Hacker posts and follow only specific community combinations you care about.

Daniel,

Thanks for the comment. I think the idea is to connect across a reasonable combination interests (i.e. 2 to 3) at a time versus ALL the interests one has - although the app does make it possible.

Lets say you have those 4 interests, you can 'follow' the the crowd combinations you're specificlly interested in and not need to constantly check them.

Great points though - thanks for the feedback!

"This is a fundamental flaw in communities on the net in general, they don't gracefully combine different scopes." -- Hacker News comment by jacquesm (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=731999)

this quote by jacquesm describes the reason why whatsupedia exists.

whatsupedia helps you share and find out what's happening in the specific interest communities you care about - whether your interests be general (i.e. 'Hackers'), hyper-niche (i.e. 'Rails Hackers in New York also interested in Wine'), or somewhere in between.