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I had the pleasure of interviewing the anonymous developer of the fastest organically growing decentralized p2p app notabug.io I feel its relevant to this conve

I had the pleasure of interviewing the anonymous developer of the fastest organically growing decentralized p2p app notabug.io I feel its relevant to this conversation. Why are we not switching to decentralized content sharing platforms? :S https://electronicsforu.com/resources/cool-stuff-misc/future-decentralised-web-part-1 https://electronicsforu.com/resources/cool-stuff-misc/future... https://electronicsforu.com/resources/cool-stuff-misc/future-decentralised-web-part-2 https://electronicsforu.com/resources/cool-stuff-misc/future...

soared 8y ago
> Why are we not switching to decentralized content sharing platforms? Because that site looks like a phishing site for reddit accounts. How is 100% cloning another site's design acceptable at all?
- beachie 8y ago
  Geez! It's a design that all are familiar with, UX 101 and facebook does it all the time! No one 'cloned a site' the whole backend infrastructure is different. Did you read it at all?
  - soared 8y ago
    Facebook doesn't copy and paste the css of competitors. That site did. I didn't read any of the interview, I just went to the site like most users would.
- beachie 8y ago
  Also HN looks like a clone of reddit!
  - soared 8y ago
    No, it is 100% a clone. HN is similar to reddit, that site is literally identical.
    - beachie 8y ago
      Would you like to work on the UX and make something new? They are open source, volunteer-driven and open to new contributors :) We all start somewhere!
- go1dfish 8y ago
  > How is 100% cloning another site's design acceptable at all? 1. The design is open source under a CPAL license which notabug abides by https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/tree/753b17407e9a9dca09558526805922de24133d53/r2/r2/public/static/css https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/tree/753b17407e9a9d... 2. a goal of notabug is to support existing reddit stylesheets with minimal/no modifications; this requires dom compatibility and minimal CSS changes in the base design. 3. reddit is abandoning this formerly open source design in favor of their new design by default.
MoronInAHurry 8y ago
The top post on notabug right now is "Tampermonkey script for auto-voting on notabug, lets level the playing field". The site has like 10 users and it's already destroyed by bots. Anarchy isn't a good approach to running a site if you want anything useful to come out of it.
- beachie 8y ago
  The way I see it, it looks like the original internet, remember 4chan? the rise of bulletin boards? We can't all be complaining about the current services being exploitative or broken without being a part of a solution. I'm all ears to move away from decentralization if there is a better solution. Currently, there are none.
  - HashHishBang 8y ago
    Not having a solution for a hard problem doesn't disqualify people from pointing to an obviously bad one and calling it out. This jank old.reddit.com fork is not the solution.
isostatic 8y ago
"In the year 2015, 4 years before the global explosion of privacy-awareness dialogues" Really, what's happened in the last 3 weeks? "starting in the wake of facebook’s Cambridge analytical scandal" That was November 2017

soared 8y ago

> Why are we not switching to decentralized content sharing platforms? Because that site looks like a phishing site for reddit accounts. How is 100% cloning another site's design acceptable at all?

beachie 8y ago
Geez! It's a design that all are familiar with, UX 101 and facebook does it all the time! No one 'cloned a site' the whole backend infrastructure is different. Did you read it at all?
- soared 8y ago
  Facebook doesn't copy and paste the css of competitors. That site did. I didn't read any of the interview, I just went to the site like most users would.
beachie 8y ago
Also HN looks like a clone of reddit!
- soared 8y ago
  No, it is 100% a clone. HN is similar to reddit, that site is literally identical.
  - beachie 8y ago
    Would you like to work on the UX and make something new? They are open source, volunteer-driven and open to new contributors :) We all start somewhere!
go1dfish 8y ago
> How is 100% cloning another site's design acceptable at all? 1. The design is open source under a CPAL license which notabug abides by https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/tree/753b17407e9a9dca09558526805922de24133d53/r2/r2/public/static/css https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/tree/753b17407e9a9d... 2. a goal of notabug is to support existing reddit stylesheets with minimal/no modifications; this requires dom compatibility and minimal CSS changes in the base design. 3. reddit is abandoning this formerly open source design in favor of their new design by default.

MoronInAHurry 8y ago

The top post on notabug right now is "Tampermonkey script for auto-voting on notabug, lets level the playing field". The site has like 10 users and it's already destroyed by bots. Anarchy isn't a good approach to running a site if you want anything useful to come out of it.

beachie 8y ago
The way I see it, it looks like the original internet, remember 4chan? the rise of bulletin boards? We can't all be complaining about the current services being exploitative or broken without being a part of a solution. I'm all ears to move away from decentralization if there is a better solution. Currently, there are none.
- HashHishBang 8y ago
  Not having a solution for a hard problem doesn't disqualify people from pointing to an obviously bad one and calling it out. This jank old.reddit.com fork is not the solution.

isostatic 8y ago

"In the year 2015, 4 years before the global explosion of privacy-awareness dialogues" Really, what's happened in the last 3 weeks? "starting in the wake of facebook’s Cambridge analytical scandal" That was November 2017