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This seems to just be a standard Discourse forum with about 5 users. What makes it "Hacker News for Health"? Have you implemented features that make it work mo

• PierredeFermat 8y ago
  "[...] with about 5 [contributing] users." On the 'consuming' side, it's more than 20X of that. In any case, the raison d'être of this is to maintain a quality discourse around human health and biology. Why it doesn't "seem" to have achieved that goal yet is simply because it's a brand new project. Now the reason for starting with Discouse is that, among its numerous capabilities, it actually does more than you'd expect when it comes to moderation. So it will help us maintain the quality as the community grows and we build our own tools. Again, this is still in its infancy phase and even HN didn't look like HN on day or week one; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 I guess good things don't get built up in a hurry :) especially good communities.
  • exolymph 8y ago
    I'm a moderator on a Discourse instance and while it's not perfect, it's pretty dang good. That said, it's more oriented toward discussion than link-sharing. Do you plan to be more Reddit-like or forum-like? (Of course, there's overlap between those categories, but generally speaking.)
    • PierredeFermat 8y ago
      It is quite good indeed. Where do you see it lacking? Perhaps this is a blindspot for admins. The aim is to really have some good discussions from time to time. We definitely don’t want to make it a place to just dump links into.