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> A place unknown to financially successful entrepreneurs. That's because YC founders fled to Bookface many years ago, YC's internal Hacker News. A YC founder
by sillysaurusx 5y ago
> A place unknown to financially successful entrepreneurs.
That's because YC founders fled to Bookface many years ago, YC's internal Hacker News.
A YC founder once saw me browsing HN and said "Huh, are you on Bookface?"
I realized later that he'd never been to HN.
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- fossuser 5y agoThat’s sad, I wish they were still active here.
- jimhi 5y agoWe are. Most threads have at least one. I find the longer they have been out of yc the less they are here though
- dang 5y agoLast I checked, the rate of participation of YC alumni on HN had been stable for many years. It was a couple years ago that I ran the numbers, but I doubt that it has changed much since then.
- eddieh 5y agoThat, perhaps, explains the sometimes unexpected anti-business/capitalist comments and sentiment here.
- novok 5y agoSo by bookface you mean a facebook group
- sillysaurusx 5y agoI really want to say "yes" and see where the conversation leads. No, I meant Bookface, YC's internal clone of Hacker News.
- xupybd 5y agoDoes Dang moderate Bookface as well?
- cblconfederate 5y agoI assume facebook will sue for trademark infringement them if they use that name in public
- moehm 5y agohttps://bookface.ycombinator.com/ https://bookface.ycombinator.com/
- tester756 5y agoit looks like ripped off an existing product with added Bootstrap to it
- 1123581321 5y agoIndeed. There is missing representation in conversations here that make those absences conspicuous. You can see a similar effect on, for example, a company Slack channel, and figure out which groups of employees are having the same conversation on a private channel. Nothing wrong with it unless the members of the side group are obliged to participate in general conversation, and they aren’t here.
- dang 5y agoYC founders haven't "fled" to Bookface (let alone "many years ago") and it's not at all accurate to describe BF as "internal Hacker News". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22389362 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22389362
- sillysaurusx 5y agoI had a reply lined up for you, but I don't want to risk my account yet again.
- tptacek 5y agoNobody who has ever laid eyes on Bookface could possibly believe that it's a replacement for HN. It's a very different scene, more like Craigslist than Reddit. It would be weird to "hang out" there. Nobody has "fled" HN to Bookface.