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Show HN:A Discussion Site for (Pilot)Hindu-Religious Groups Based on Hacker News
- 4444 6y agoA discussion site for various religious groups inspired from the design of hacker news. People may like this techi flavour in design in otherewide very shiny and colour rich websites of religious content. Suggest your views :)
- notadog 6y agoWhy have Media Wiki in the name if you aren't actually using MediaWiki?
- 4444 6y agoActually this site is dedicated to share the existing media and to allow users to discuss that media. Kind of meta media so we kept as media wiki.
- 4444 6y agoAlso we are so much stuck in solving chicken egg problem of content here , can anyone share the early days of hackernews? like how it started growing?
- schoen 6y agoYou might also want to look for potential inspiration at the religious discussion sites at Stack Exchange. https://judaism.stackexchange.com/ https://judaism.stackexchange.com/ https://christianity.stackexchange.com/ https://christianity.stackexchange.com/
- 4444 6y agoThanks! This will definitely guide us on content ideas and growth of community.
- notRobot 6y agoThere's also already https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/ https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/
- schoen 6y agoHmmm, it looks like the new site's disclaimer is copied directly from this page, even including the same capitalization!
- trhway 6y agocan users of other than Buddhism religion customize "karma" into something else, like probably "mitzvah" for Judaism or whatever is used for sin/virtue credit maintenance in Christianity?
- 4444 6y agoThats very fine idea, will do it for sure
- woodylondon 6y agoIs this a open source version you can download and use yourself ? How was this built ?
- 4444 6y agoThere is one php version of hackernews which we have used to start but there were many changes done to suit the needs. You can check the php version here https://github.com/Kandepet/HackerNews https://github.com/Kandepet/HackerNews
- foolinaround 6y agoWill this be open sourced?
- 4444 6y agowe are planning to do so once we come up with a suitable alternative wiki design, currently working on stable production for the forum first.
- kiaorarohit 6y agoThis is quite cool! What's the focus on this site vs. r/Hinduism and other such subreddits?
- 4444 6y agoactually r/Hinduism is not focused on strict discussion based on scripture also there are many kind of media formate involved like images,videos etc, for example religious groups have many rules and hierarchy based on scriptures to decide the quality of posts which is not found in r/Hinduism.
- selimthegrim 6y agoWhat sort of hierarchy?
- 4444 6y agoso thats why we started with the category tree itself. instead of flat tags, that's one visual difference
- Ahmd72 6y agoI don't understand, I only see one religion (Hinduism) being discussed, how is it a discussion site for religious groups?
- 4444 6y agoIts an pilot with one religion , we will make it open for all other religions
- mellosouls 6y agoThat's not clear from the website itself - regardless, it would be better to reflect the website as is in the title here. EDIT - title changed, cheers.
- 4444 6y agoSure I agree, I edited the title :) It was in hurry actually but the idea is to have it for all religions. Since most of our contributors were from the particular religion we started of with that.
- kapilkaisare 6y agoI suspect OP's confusion (and mine) stems from the domain name - it singles out a single religion (Hinduism). I'd be interested in knowing how the site will accommodate discussions on other faiths without changing that domain name.
- 4444 6y agoI think its not possible with same domain name so we are looking for alternative domain and will have subdomains for diff religions. You can suggest some good top level domain name ideas.
- kapilkaisare 6y agotheotalk.net is unclaimed at the time of this writing. :)
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