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Yes, I think there also was an attempt by Google at some point. Discord, Reddit, HN, Twitter are all successful variations around a similar concept. HN in part
by bambax 5y ago
Yes, I think there also was an attempt by Google at some point.
Discord, Reddit, HN, Twitter are all successful variations around a similar concept. HN in particular is url based (comments are attached to a url for the most part).
I don't know why the "pure comments" version always fail, but it certainly does; it may have something to do with community building... Maybe we're not interested in anybody's comment, but only in comments from specific people with specific interests...?
- giantg2 5y agoWith Chrome's market share and more sites not wanting to moderate comments, I'm a little surprised it didn't catch on (depending on the circumstances at that point in time).
- xd1936 5y agoThe lyrics site Genius also attempted this[1][2] 1. https://genius.com/web-annotator https://genius.com/web-annotator 2. https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/25/11505454/news-genius-annotate-the-web-content-security-policy-vulnerability https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/25/11505454/news-genius-anno...
- ksarw 5y agoYes, it was called Google Sidewiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Sidewiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Sidewiki I think perhaps Google had too much skin in the game already. If you ask me, its actually to their advantage to offload it to an independent party for the sake of neutrality. Ah yes community is also another reason! It is tricky to build a community, at least I wasn't sure what community to start with. That's why I chose to create a private sphere where its just you and your friends discussing and sharing links privately in. a chronological feed, and was hoping that could create enough pull for a public community to develop.