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I'm using DuckDuckGo every day, but I wish DuckDuckHack was easier to contribute to. Maybe something like letting users load their own modules for local use, an

by nukeop 9y ago

I'm using DuckDuckGo every day, but I wish DuckDuckHack was easier to contribute to. Maybe something like letting users load their own modules for local use, and public repositories? I'd like to help improve instant answers and widgets (like json pretty print).

vanderZwan 9y ago
Similarly, I'd like to vote with my wallet, without having to see ads to do so.
j_s 9y ago
DuckDuckHack is now in Maintenance Mode | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15199489 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15199489 (Sep 2017)
granda 9y ago
You can, I'm on mobile at the moment so I can't pull a link but if you Google it (DDG it) you'll find it
r3bl 9y ago
It wasn't really difficult to contribute to them about a year or two ago. I've contributed a couple of cheatsheets (for example, clicking on the info icon when searching for "nmap cheatsheet" will reveal my GitHub username), which were, at the time, considered a low-hanging fruit way of contributing instant answers. Later on, I was later on added to the DuckDuckHack Contributors team[0], which was border-line spamming, up to the point where I had to redirect email notifications from the DuckDuckGo organization to my non-primary email address. Occasional email is fine, a dozen or two dozens of emails in my inbox almost every single day was not. And finally, I am aware that there was some grand change about how people contribute to DuckDuckGo introduced relatively recently, which makes my experience a bit outdated. The combination of their actions after I've contributed to them made me pretty uninterested in the idea of contributing more instant answers. Nowadays, I only suggest bangs from time to time, which is as easy as filling out a form[1]. [0] https://github.com/orgs/duckduckgo/teams/duckduckhack-contributors https://github.com/orgs/duckduckgo/teams/duckduckhack-contri... [1] https://duckduckgo.com/newbang https://duckduckgo.com/newbang
- yegg 9y ago
  Sorry about the experience you had with the org. DuckDuckHack is indeed in maintenance mode right now as we couldn't figure out the best contribution model that scaled with the search engine, though are still thinking about how to do that. All of these new apps and extensions are open source though, and we'd welcome any contributions.

by nukeop 9y ago

vanderZwan 9y ago

Similarly, I'd like to vote with my wallet, without having to see ads to do so.

j_s 9y ago

DuckDuckHack is now in Maintenance Mode | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15199489 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15199489 (Sep 2017)

granda 9y ago

You can, I'm on mobile at the moment so I can't pull a link but if you Google it (DDG it) you'll find it

r3bl 9y ago

It wasn't really difficult to contribute to them about a year or two ago. I've contributed a couple of cheatsheets (for example, clicking on the info icon when searching for "nmap cheatsheet" will reveal my GitHub username), which were, at the time, considered a low-hanging fruit way of contributing instant answers. Later on, I was later on added to the DuckDuckHack Contributors team[0], which was border-line spamming, up to the point where I had to redirect email notifications from the DuckDuckGo organization to my non-primary email address. Occasional email is fine, a dozen or two dozens of emails in my inbox almost every single day was not. And finally, I am aware that there was some grand change about how people contribute to DuckDuckGo introduced relatively recently, which makes my experience a bit outdated. The combination of their actions after I've contributed to them made me pretty uninterested in the idea of contributing more instant answers. Nowadays, I only suggest bangs from time to time, which is as easy as filling out a form[1]. [0] https://github.com/orgs/duckduckgo/teams/duckduckhack-contributors https://github.com/orgs/duckduckgo/teams/duckduckhack-contri... [1] https://duckduckgo.com/newbang https://duckduckgo.com/newbang

yegg 9y ago
Sorry about the experience you had with the org. DuckDuckHack is indeed in maintenance mode right now as we couldn't figure out the best contribution model that scaled with the search engine, though are still thinking about how to do that. All of these new apps and extensions are open source though, and we'd welcome any contributions.