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Please contribute to usethesource.com

81 points by chuhnk 16y ago

chuhnk 16y ago
HN has a great community and a lot of intelligent people with a wealth of knowledge that has truly not been tapped yet. There are times when I crave reading technical postings and learning beyond my current levels of understanding but HN does not always permit that unless I sift through the broad spectrum of links. Usethesource.com to me appears like a continuation of HN in a pure technical fashion but is yet to see any community form around it or more than 1-2 postings per day. It would be great if we could help it flourish.
- tolmasky 16y ago
  I like this idea. Two questions/suggestions (not sure if they already work or not): 1. Can you make it so I can log in with OpenID/Facebook/something else that doesn't require me to sign up yet again. 2. Can you make this open source so we can collaboratively work on the algorithms behind it etc.
  - chuhnk 16y ago
    We should probably ask the creator himself whether he can do these things :) I am merely a user who wishes to utilize the resource and hopefully with the help of HN get others to contribute to it.
    - pixelbath 16y ago
      FYI: The creator is jgrahamc. http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jgrahamc http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jgrahamc
  - loewenskind 16y ago
    I I likewise would like to request that if you do 1. you still offer a way to create an ID unique to this site. I don't and wont use OpenID.
acconrad 16y ago
Is there a twitter handle so I can follow the articles published?
CaseOfEmergency 16y ago
Why is there HTML in the title on the "about" and "formatting" pages?
- nowarninglabel 16y ago
  It's called "use the source" for a reason :P
albertzeyer 16y ago
Is there any Twitter/RSS feed for it? Similar as http://twitter.com/#!/hackernewsbot http://twitter.com/#!/hackernewsbot ?
- lhorie 16y ago
  http://news.usethesource.com/rss http://news.usethesource.com/rss
pauljonas 16y ago
/like but usethesource.com needs bookmarklet feature. /yes, i could roll my own if the desire burned enough /em just sayin'
- jmatt 16y ago
  javascript:window.location="http://news.usethesource.com/submitlink?u=+encodeURIComponent(document.location)+&t=+encodeURIComponent(document.title) or <a style="color: #777; font-size: 2em;" href="javascript:window.location="http://news.usethesource.com/submitlink?u=+encodeURIComponent(document.location)+&t=+encodeURIComponent(document.title)>post to news.UTS</a> I used it to post lis.py with no problem: http://news.usethesource.com/item?id=728 http://news.usethesource.com/item?id=728
  - pauljonas 16y ago
    thank you!
  - pauljonas 16y ago
    Missing a double quote after '…u=' and both double quotes (or single quotes) missing to properly delineate '…&t=' for the document title inclusion. Changed those two and it's working fine.
yters 16y ago
Maybe have some sort of link on HN to these offshoots (similar to stackexchange)? There have been a couple similar experiments trying to draw on HN's community, but fizzle b/c they drop off the radar to quickly.
rb2k_ 16y ago
No
jgrahamc 16y ago
Thanks for mentioning this site here. Hope people enjoy it. 1. I've added the bookmarklet 2. I've fixed the weird HTML in the page title on the About and Formatting pages. If people have suggestions please make them on UTS as I am not monitoring HN very often these days.

81 points by chuhnk 16y ago

HN has a great community and a lot of intelligent people with a wealth of knowledge that has truly not been tapped yet. There are times when I crave reading technical postings and learning beyond my current levels of understanding but HN does not always permit that unless I sift through the broad spectrum of links. Usethesource.com to me appears like a continuation of HN in a pure technical fashion but is yet to see any community form around it or more than 1-2 postings per day. It would be great if we could help it flourish.

tolmasky 16y ago
I like this idea. Two questions/suggestions (not sure if they already work or not): 1. Can you make it so I can log in with OpenID/Facebook/something else that doesn't require me to sign up yet again. 2. Can you make this open source so we can collaboratively work on the algorithms behind it etc.
- chuhnk 16y ago
  We should probably ask the creator himself whether he can do these things :) I am merely a user who wishes to utilize the resource and hopefully with the help of HN get others to contribute to it.
  - pixelbath 16y ago
    FYI: The creator is jgrahamc. http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jgrahamc http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jgrahamc
- loewenskind 16y ago
  I I likewise would like to request that if you do 1. you still offer a way to create an ID unique to this site. I don't and wont use OpenID.

acconrad 16y ago

Is there a twitter handle so I can follow the articles published?

CaseOfEmergency 16y ago

Why is there HTML in the title on the "about" and "formatting" pages?

nowarninglabel 16y ago
It's called "use the source" for a reason :P

albertzeyer 16y ago

Is there any Twitter/RSS feed for it? Similar as http://twitter.com/#!/hackernewsbot http://twitter.com/#!/hackernewsbot ?

lhorie 16y ago
http://news.usethesource.com/rss http://news.usethesource.com/rss

pauljonas 16y ago

/like but usethesource.com needs bookmarklet feature. /yes, i could roll my own if the desire burned enough /em just sayin'

jmatt 16y ago
javascript:window.location="http://news.usethesource.com/submitlink?u=+encodeURIComponent(document.location)+&t=+encodeURIComponent(document.title) or <a style="color: #777; font-size: 2em;" href="javascript:window.location="http://news.usethesource.com/submitlink?u=+encodeURIComponent(document.location)+&t=+encodeURIComponent(document.title)>post to news.UTS</a> I used it to post lis.py with no problem: http://news.usethesource.com/item?id=728 http://news.usethesource.com/item?id=728
- pauljonas 16y ago
  thank you!
- pauljonas 16y ago
  Missing a double quote after '…u=' and both double quotes (or single quotes) missing to properly delineate '…&t=' for the document title inclusion. Changed those two and it's working fine.

yters 16y ago

Maybe have some sort of link on HN to these offshoots (similar to stackexchange)? There have been a couple similar experiments trying to draw on HN's community, but fizzle b/c they drop off the radar to quickly.

rb2k_ 16y ago

jgrahamc 16y ago

Thanks for mentioning this site here. Hope people enjoy it. 1. I've added the bookmarklet 2. I've fixed the weird HTML in the page title on the About and Formatting pages. If people have suggestions please make them on UTS as I am not monitoring HN very often these days.