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It's possible to contribute to HN without being a member. For instance, you can talk about it around you, share links with people outside of HN, either via mai
by thibaut_barrere 17y ago
It's possible to contribute to HN without being a member.
For instance, you can talk about it around you, share links with people outside of HN, either via mail, twitter etc.
I've been doing this for months before being more active, submission/commenting-wise.
- blasdel 17y agoSure you can contribute tertially in the same way that happy users of open source projects contribute by attracting more happy users — except for the fact that more happy users is not an unqualified improvement — which happens to be the subject of petewailes' complaint! My main point is that if you're not posting and getting feedback, your conception of the community is completely untested conjecture.
- mdg 17y agooh cool, so I can tell my friends about OSS and suddenly I am a contributer to OSS!
- zaphar 17y agoI know your probably being sarcastic but I would argue that evangelizing OSS is one way of contributing.
- dkimball 17y agoI think the counterpart to telling your friends about a news service would be getting them to change operating systems and start contributing patches to the new one: both the "userbase" and the "development" of a submission-driven news site are functions of the number (and activity level, and, certainly, quality) of its users.