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Hi there, Another Greek guy here! First thing, congrats for rolling this out. This is one of the 300 things I wanted to do but never got around it. A few thing
by atmosx 10y ago
Hi there,
Another Greek guy here! First thing, congrats for rolling this out. This is one of the 300 things I wanted to do but never got around it. A few things I would do differently:
1) I would have chosen a more self explanatory name (e.g. technews.gr, hackerbits.gr, 1024bits.gr, etc.)
2) You seem to have rolled out your own implementation which is interesting. I would have used lobsters[1] which is based on RoR. Lobsters is a responsive, battle tested, community driven effort.
Broadly speaking, this looks more like an effort to learn about programming while working on something interesting, than an effort to create a community (i.e. You're focussing on programming and not in recruiting users and content-creation). HN is primarily a community. Good luck with everything! :-)
[1]: https://github.com/jcs/lobsters https://github.com/jcs/lobsters
- kurosiwo 10y agoHey, thanks for your comment and the link to "lobsters". In regards to (2) the reason behind it is that in contrast to good software engineers practices, I prefer to write my own code for small and simple things like this, so I know the code inside-out, rather than using some off-the-self much more complicated and of course powerful solution, which would take me more time just to get familiar with. Especially for a project like this, I thought it would be much more fun to have a small, easy to inspect, understand and hack, code-base so anyone interested can get up to speed fast. You are absolutely right that the most important thing is building a community, and I only come to realize now :D