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Monthly is way too slow for something as fast moving as geek news. (and this site is called "Hacker News", even though some articles certainly are timeless) I'
by swombat 17y ago
Monthly is way too slow for something as fast moving as geek news. (and this site is called "Hacker News", even though some articles certainly are timeless)
I'd make that a weekly, published on Friday morning.
I suspect that the print aspect might be nice locally but disseminating a weekly publication worldwide will offset the niceness of print. The iPad/Kindle wave is coming - ride it, don't avoid it. Time to pivot.
There's an obvious question about comments... perhaps you can take the best comments from each post and ask the author for the right to republish - or even just republish and hopefully/probably nobody will sue you, or even ask pg to change the terms&conditions to grant an irrevocable license to HN to use the comments as you see fit, followed by an authorisation by HN for you to use the comments as you see fit.
Apart from that, there's also the question of how you'll select the articles. Presumably votes aren't enough by themselves, if you want to publish content that's "timeless" you'll have to do some selection. What kind of stuff will end up there? Erlang articles? Start-up wisdom? Scalability tricks? It seems to me that HN pumps out enough content on a weekly basis to produce at least a handful of such themed collections... not sure what the solution is there, but worth thinking about.
- llimllib 17y agocounterpoint: monthly is exactly the right pace for geek news. Much of what we read and comment on here is ephemeral crap, and due to the pace of HN there are many repeats of well-known information. There are only a few good, innovative, really interesting articles on HN per month.
- adrianwaj 17y agoI have domain hackerbrain if want to buy it.
- adrianwaj 17y agoBecause of all the downvotes, I suspect people aren't getting what I'm saying: if the author of Hackermonthly wants to run something more frequent as the parent item suggests, he'll need a new name.
- gxs 17y agoWhile I agree that monthly might be too slow, I think that I, like a lot of others, will still frequent HN quite a bit (read: everyday). The more I think about it, in fact, the more I like the idea. If he could provide some of the top comments, I would LOVE to read this magazine at the end of the month and read about some of the stuff I will undoubtedly have missed or just overlooked. I second the above post, go for it and see what happens!