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Show HN: Enlyte – A Computer Science and Tech Only Hacker News
- brechmos 7y agoI have to admit, I think the interface is prettier than HN.
- zeko1195 7y agoThat is not the point of HN.
- meeseeks 7y agoHey HN, Josh here Enlyte is a new cs/tech community. Right now tech-only content is pulled from HN. Some small differences from HN include: - Downvoting comments either requires user to spend 1 of their own karma OR an explanatory reply, this is to encourage constructive discussions and combat toxic-induced downvotes. - Posts and Comment Influence Points are capped per Post/Comment to combat influence farming - Markdown support - Notifications - HN comment replies can be fully collapsed, so you can dig into the comment that interest you most This is a work in progress, so if you find any bugs (I’m sure they will show up) or have any suggestions/questions, you can comment on HN or email me at contact@enlyte.com
- rhacker 7y agoIt's an SPA and I do think it's a refreshing take on HN. Much faster loading feel. Don't know if I would use it as my HN front end - why not just make it a separate system altogether?
- asark 7y agoFaster loading? HN pages are so fast I sometimes wonder if my click missed the "refresh" button. This one has time to display two loading states, and the HN main page loads long before this thing's first loading state's done. This takes at least a full second before content shows up.
- dang 7y ago> Enlyte is a new cs/tech community. Right now tech-only content is pulled from HN. We've let people do mashups, alternative UIs, and other cool experiments with HN data, but "pulling" (i.e. copying) HN's content wholesale in an attempt to start a separate community seems very different and, frankly, dodgy. Not to mention branding it as "a" Hacker News, like you have in the title above. If you think you can make a better community than HN with different features, you're free to try, but not by mirroring and forking HN's discussions.
- porus555 7y agoSome honest feedback: I personally wouldn't switch to this from HN. The reason being that the main problems you're trying to solve (encouraging constructive discussions, influence farming, etc.) are simply not things that have been an issue for me on HN. If anything, I come to HN specifically because the majority of discussions are pretty constructive, and the karma points are hidden so no one really cares about (or can tell) a user's influence. The rest of the benefits like markdown support are cool, but it's also kind of nice that the focus on HN is on the content versus formatting. My two cents. Congrats on shipping!
- meeseeks 7y agoAppreciate the honest feedback, one of the reasons why fighting karma/influence farming may be useful is it mitigates automated posting. Either way, again, really appreciate the feedback!
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoIn my experience, HN definitely has a problem with actively discouraging dissent, so some effort towards mitigating that is appreciated.
- enriquto 7y ago> In my experience, HN definitely has a problem with actively discouraging dissent Do you think so? The "punishment" for extremely unpopular opinions seems to be a few downvotes, which are bounded below by -4. Thus the net effect is that your message appears below others. I cannot see how this can be construed as "severely discouraging dissent", it seems rather mild to me. In any case, I am not afraid to express my strong dissent on any topic here, and if anything I find the downvotes that I get rather amusing.
- airstrike 7y agoAs far as online forums go, HN seems significantly better than any other platform, considering we're also trying to self-moderate (i.e. excluding old-school forums with no voting / self-moderation features)
- tomtompl 7y agoNot something I think is really needed, but I'd love to be proved wrong, good luck! Also, opening popcorn, I feel the word "Enlyte" will be PROBLEMATIC to some religious fanatics.
- dgellow 7y agoWhy, if I may ask?
- tomtompl 7y agoEnlyte might be connoted with Elyte -> Elite -> elitarism -> Exclusion
- fourier_mode 7y ago> I feel the word "Enlyte" will be PROBLEMATIC to some religious fanatics. I don't get the context here, do you mind dropping a link.
- HelloNurse 7y agoFirst impact: compared to HN it's needlessly colorful (not bad but a little distracting), it's much less compact, and on my slow and filtered network connection there is one apparently permanent spinner overlay per story (stories don't open). Say no to useless Javascript! Why risk bad user experience?
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoI'm afraid I have to agree with this. The simplicity of HN is something I really appreciate.
- hipparchus 7y agoadditionally, HN works exactly the same with no javascript. I'm just getting a white page here.
- losteric 7y agoIt looks like they were heavily inspired by the new Reddit design, which is terrible and slow.
- alexgmcm 7y agoI agree - it looks almost identical. I quite dislike the new Reddit design and always have it disabled.
- rafaelgarrido 7y agoHad the same impression, and the website was terribly rendered on Firefox focus which is my main browser on mobile. I have a smoother UX with hn.
- ghostpepper 7y agoI disabled umatrix and ublock entirely and it still just loads a white page in firefox. I assume because I'm blocking cookies? Not sure why they're necessary
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- the_common_man 7y agoThe site seems down
- tracker1 7y agoIt's a little sluggish and some of the async data flows have been unresponsive (editing profile, etc)... May even out with time, but not sure if it's on a cloud host or if enlarging the system is an option.
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- cameronbrown 7y agoReally not to keen on SPAs - JS is fine for analytics but not an entire website. Still, the design is nice - especially like image previews under links.
- asdfasdfasdf23 7y agoThe site imports a lot of stuff from other URLs. HN: ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com This website: bootstrapcdn.com maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com cloudflare.com cdnjs.cloudflare.com embedly.com cdn.embedly.com firebaseio.com hacker-news.firebaseio.com fonts.googleapis.com google-analytics.com www.google-analytics.com google.com www.google.com jquery.com code.jquery.com jsdelivr.net cdn.jsdelivr.net maps.googleapis.com mxpnl.com cdn4.mxpnl.com unpkg.com
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- neilv 7y agoOne of the positive things about HN is that the implementation of the software itself is unusually clueful.
- meeseeks 7y agothose are the libraries the app uses
- ghostpepper 7y agoJust curious, what are you using google maps for?
- meeseeks 7y agoI have a unreleased feature that uses the places api
- HelloNurse 7y agoIf it is an unreleased feature, it should be in an unreleased separate non-production branch and/or removed automatically by build scripts. The existence of a Google maps URL in the page makes your feature not working yet, but released and contributing cruft to an already troubled page.
- ur-whale 7y agoI thought this was HN content with all the non-CS stuff filtered out with some sort of ML-based tool. Turns out it has its own content.
- pritambarhate 7y agoLike the idea. There is lobste.rs. But last time I checked it was "invite only". Keep up the good work!
- theelous3 7y agoAs if hn wasn't comp sci and tech focused enough. I really don't see the point if this bar some formatting features and a different karma system (who cares about karma on hn anyway?)
- T3RMINATED 7y agothat is the best website since youtube invention... you just are too blind to see the beauty of it. #karmathis lol
- minimaxir 7y agoOccasionally there are comments in threads about tangent-but-complicated topics in tech (e.g. tech-politics, tech-gender) that tend to ask "why is this on HN?", despite tangent topics still being on-topic.
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- MiroF 7y agoah so this is a tech forum where we avoid talking about any inconvenient issues like inequity in tech
- dang 7y agoThat has been, and still is, talked about a great deal here. If it feels like it's not enough, that's because nobody ever feels like their favorite topics are discussed enough on HN. Even Rust hackers probably feel that way. This is because frontpage space is the scarcest resource on the site. More here if anyone wants it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19720659 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19720659.
- PascLeRasc 7y agoHN's pretty much a perfect website as far as design and community goes for me, but if anything I'd like more non-tech content. Some of the best articles I've ever read have been ones on urban planning or behavioral economics that I wouldn't have found posted and talked about elsewhere. Paul Graham's "Life is Short" essay is incredible and I revisit it several times a year. There's much more to life than SAAS.
- VolatileCoder 7y agoI would switch if this had an RSS feed...
- dandanio 7y ago+1 really!!!
- wuschel 7y agoAs an alternative: There is also computer science and technology focused community Lobsters [1], which has been around for a couple of years and offers a different experience. [1] http://lobste.rs http://lobste.rs
- suzil 7y agoWould be great if it didn't have sticky headers.
- digitalsushi 7y agomy fortune 100 firewall is blocking it due to content. that greatly surprises me.
- enriquto 7y agoBlank page without javascript. Unreadable with an ad blocker.
- bencollier49 7y agoEither lots of people are crossposting their comments to your site, or you're doing it for them. If it's the latter, that's a pretty wholesale copyright infringement job, isn't it? As I understand it, YCombinator is granted a license for the comments by the EULA on the site, but that doesn't extend to scrapers..? [I should add, it's probably also a GDPR violation. The GDPR has some excitingly large fines for data misuse! :-)]
- OrangeManBad 7y agoI would love if YC at least had an easy way to delete comments.
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- jeho 7y agoIt’s pulling from the HN API
- bencollier49 7y agoInteresting legal question about the API then, I guess.
- lordgrenville 7y agoSlightly tangentially, someone mentioned recently that he'd like a feed of only non-science/tech related HN articles. I put together some code[0] to get the feed from the API, and parse them with either a word blacklist or a classifier trained on a text corpus, but my results weren't really good. If anyone has any insights, I'd be happy to hear them. [0] https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/lordgrenville/browser_scraper/blob/master/Parsing.ipynb https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/lordgrenville/browser_sc...