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This is something HN should just do anyway; that is high rep users flag a source as paywalled, and going forward the submitting user gets an alert with suggeste
by nxzero 10y ago
This is something HN should just do anyway; that is high rep users flag a source as paywalled, and going forward the submitting user gets an alert with suggested alt links. No idea why HN isn't open source with an open source API to insert data too.
- logn 10y agoA variation of it is open source. The anti-spam features are guarded secrets. They take a pretty conservative approach to adding features.
- nxzero 10y agoBy variation, do you mean a clone. If so, that's not what I mean, I mean that the site is open source, community is able to make pull requests, and it's a community driven resource, that driven by content, code and community, not an singular interface.
- logn 10y agoBy variation I mean HN is based on http://arclanguage.org/install http://arclanguage.org/install ... I don't know how much the code bases have diverged. They do have an API: http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api
- nxzero 10y agoYes, ARC is a great example of how a PG project should be open sourced and run by the community. __ API is read-only; API should be "full service" and the first interface to HN, not a supplement. ___ Yeah, whole ARC (aka PG) thing is an issue too; FYI, those install direction are dated, here's the info: http://arclanguage.org/user?id=akkartik http://arclanguage.org/user?id=akkartik PG doesn't even appear to be actively involved in ARC anymore: http://arclanguage.org/user?id=pg http://arclanguage.org/user?id=pg Find it hard to believe if YC funded a startup like HN that they wouldn't require an explanation of why ARC made sense as the language of choice.