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Something I've always wanted to work on was a browser extension that allowed things like this to happen collaboratively. There's stuff like PeerLibrary[0] that
by culi 5y ago
Something I've always wanted to work on was a browser extension that allowed things like this to happen collaboratively. There's stuff like PeerLibrary[0] that lets you annotate things as a group, but it's limited to publications and things you upload. Nyxt seems to meet what I want but lacks the collaborative aspect I'm looking for.
There's a couple of Browser extensions that have sorta tried to accomplish this before. Epiverse[1] seems to be the most polished one so far. It originally intended to allow any user to comment on any webpage. But it found that without existing content, few found it useful. So eventually the creator just parsed to see if the webpage was posted on Reddit or Hackernews. The original purpose of it ended up being too expensive to host so it ended up just becoming a HN/Reddit parser. Which, tbh, is basically what I want to build at this point. I'd love to contribute to the project, but I don't have much time and it's closed source
The other similar extensions also just parse HN/Reddit like Newsit[2] (which is open-source) and Thredd[3] (which only parses Reddit). My only real addition to this is that I'd like to include the ability to parse more than just Reddit and HN. I wanna create a discussion aggregator. There's similar sites like Lobste.rs and Lemmy.ml that could also be parsed, but obviously that's not the full extent of where discussions happen around a webpage.
I don't think I have it figured out, and I don't know if anyone ever will, but I think there's a lot to gain if someone is able to someday harness that feeling that you get when you read something really good or find something really cool and wanna see how others responded
[0] https://peerlibrary.org/ https://peerlibrary.org/
[1] https://epiverse.co/ https://epiverse.co/
[2] https://newsit.benwinding.com/ https://newsit.benwinding.com/
[3] https://thredd.io/ https://thredd.io/
- tgbugs 5y agoIn case you are unaware there is https://hypothes.is https://hypothes.is which might fit the bill. It has the same issue with sparseness of annotations that you mention for epiverse, but I don't see any way to avoid that.
- culi 5y agoOh yes, I totally forgot to bring that up. I think somewhere along the way my goals changed from "collaborative web annotation" (which hypothes.is is the best at out of what's out there) to "discussion aggregator." I think the latter was partially born out of a realization that I'd end up making #YetAnotherDiscussionPlatform. Now I have to figure out how to include hypothes.is annotations into my app lol
- srcreigh 5y agoMaybe try some of these https://genius.com/web-annotator https://genius.com/web-annotator https://www.getpoint.co/ https://www.getpoint.co/