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Hi guys, DataTau has been down for more than a month. We tried to contact Rohit on Twitter and offered him our help to maintain or host the site, but got no an

Hi guys, DataTau has been down for more than a month. We tried to contact Rohit on Twitter and offered him our help to maintain or host the site, but got no answer, so we understood the project is over and decided to make 'a clone of the clone' on a .net domain. We have been working on setting up a new version of the site with the same philosophy and Django based. We are not Web devs and although HN frontend looks simple, it has more features than we though. It is still missing some HN features (as original DataTau) but we are working hard to make the site better and bring the community back. Please give it a try and report any bug you encounter.

pedro_munoz 7y ago
Wow guys! Really missed DT! Thanks a lot :D
xyzzy_plugh 7y ago
I got real confused for a second as the top bar color is the same as my HN logged-in color. Good choice!
- quickthrower2 7y ago
  Medium-well Cyan FTW. And they use a HTML table for that bar. How unsemantic.
  - thegurus 7y ago
    Yes, it is very unsemantic. The front is made of tables of tables of tables with lots of deprecated tags and most of the styling is made in the html file instead of a stylesheet :-D. We copied the original HN/DataTau frontend with little changes. In the future, we would like to improve it, keeping the HN simple / old fashioned front
bitlax 7y ago
Any chance you'll expose an API?
- thegurus 7y ago
  We are working on it. Wanted to launch asap to give the community a sense of continuity since the original DataTau has been down for too much time (since May 15), so had to give up some features for this early version. We have to: - fix bugs - improve backend, algorithm to assign karma and sorting posts in frontpage - implement a newsletter with best posts - make an API - opensource the code when it is a bit more polished
  - bitlax 7y ago
    Thanks. Looking forward to it.
NicoJuicy 7y ago
Can I help out with handlr.sapico.me ? It has a RSS-feed to item ( which is a link/post/comment for automation
joelgrus 7y ago
I appreciate that you like the site and want to clone it, but it's extremely poor form (and extremely misleading) to give your clone the same name.
- thegurus 7y ago
  It was an already existing product and we wanted to stick to it as much as possible!
  - achompas 7y ago
    I don't think this excuses the cloning. If you wanted to keep the project running, the first step would be to speak with the real site's maintainer to develop a plan.
    - thegurus 7y ago
      We did it. Got no answer in a month.
- fastball 7y ago
  Not sure how it's misleading if it's the same product.
  - achompas 7y ago
    But it is not the same product, because it is not run by the same person. That matters.
    - fastball 7y ago
      So every time a product is bought out by a different company they should have to change the name?
      - achompas 7y ago
        You're making my point for me - that's a legally approved transfer of assets. This is not.
joshenglish 7y ago
honestly though looks like Rohit has been MIA for a little since there are a lack of tweets on his personal account since May, etc. Hope he is ok.

pedro_munoz 7y ago

Wow guys! Really missed DT! Thanks a lot :D

xyzzy_plugh 7y ago

I got real confused for a second as the top bar color is the same as my HN logged-in color. Good choice!

quickthrower2 7y ago
Medium-well Cyan FTW. And they use a HTML table for that bar. How unsemantic.
- thegurus 7y ago
  Yes, it is very unsemantic. The front is made of tables of tables of tables with lots of deprecated tags and most of the styling is made in the html file instead of a stylesheet :-D. We copied the original HN/DataTau frontend with little changes. In the future, we would like to improve it, keeping the HN simple / old fashioned front

bitlax 7y ago

Any chance you'll expose an API?

thegurus 7y ago
We are working on it. Wanted to launch asap to give the community a sense of continuity since the original DataTau has been down for too much time (since May 15), so had to give up some features for this early version. We have to: - fix bugs - improve backend, algorithm to assign karma and sorting posts in frontpage - implement a newsletter with best posts - make an API - opensource the code when it is a bit more polished
- bitlax 7y ago
  Thanks. Looking forward to it.

NicoJuicy 7y ago

Can I help out with handlr.sapico.me ? It has a RSS-feed to item ( which is a link/post/comment for automation

joelgrus 7y ago

I appreciate that you like the site and want to clone it, but it's extremely poor form (and extremely misleading) to give your clone the same name.

thegurus 7y ago
It was an already existing product and we wanted to stick to it as much as possible!
- achompas 7y ago
  I don't think this excuses the cloning. If you wanted to keep the project running, the first step would be to speak with the real site's maintainer to develop a plan.
  - thegurus 7y ago
    We did it. Got no answer in a month.
fastball 7y ago
Not sure how it's misleading if it's the same product.
- achompas 7y ago
  But it is not the same product, because it is not run by the same person. That matters.
  - fastball 7y ago
    So every time a product is bought out by a different company they should have to change the name?
    - achompas 7y ago
      You're making my point for me - that's a legally approved transfer of assets. This is not.

joshenglish 7y ago

honestly though looks like Rohit has been MIA for a little since there are a lack of tweets on his personal account since May, etc. Hope he is ok.