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YC News Facebook Group

18 points by danw 20y ago

juwo 20y ago
Isnt facebook only for college students? Why dont you put it somewhere else so that the rest of us can also join?
- python_kiss 20y ago
  YC represents a good demographic of undergrads, grads, and recently graduated students so I think it's a pretty good place to start it. Moreover, Facebook opened up to everyone two months ago. Alternatively, if Danw prefers, we can start a YC group on my social network instead (Shuzak.com). People don't have to register to post there.
- danielha 20y ago
  Facebook is now open to all users. I think the best place to organize would be somewhere we could add information and organize, such as the Infogami Wiki.
danw 20y ago
Facebook is open for everyone but mainly used by students. I created the group after noticing how many people joined the startup school event. Feel free to move over to shuzak, looks like it could become a great community and it matches the YCN demographic perfectly.
- acgourley 20y ago
  Does shuzak have a YCN demographic? From browsing the site briefly I found it hard to tell if it was for me or for people who collect Star Trek christmas tree decorations.
  - danw 20y ago
    'collect Star Trek christmas decorations' Isnt that YCN? Kidding! It's a social network for geeks which sounds like us. Addmitedly I've barely used shuzak so I may be mistaken.
    - python_kiss 20y ago
      I estimate that 85% of the people on there are hackers. In fact, there are a number of users involved in actually coding the social network. Moreover, there is a chatroom there so we may converse in real-time. Here is the YC community: http://shuzak.com/Community.php?ID=6472
      - acgourley 20y ago
        0 users for the YC community, 5 for star trek Kidding. I'll check it out if its really 85% hackers.
    - python_kiss 20y ago
      Oh and for Star Trek lovers, please visit: http://shuzak.com/UniversalSearch.php?query=star&Type=Communities lol.
pg 20y ago
Are there some features I could add that would make YC News itself do what you need in this respect?
- jwecker 20y ago
  a photo upload per user so you can pick out someone you know here in a crowd, and a simple message queue (per user) would probably do it, imo.
- danw 20y ago
  I'm not sure if the facebook group is even going to be usefull apart from making it easier to find/contact other users. Now that we have an about field on profiles it will be easier to contact people. Anyone who wants to be contacted can stick a url/email in the field. Perhaps the ability to send messages to users? Or to add people as 'friends'? There are some people who consistently add article that I like and it would be great if I could add them as a 'friend' and then look at a 'your friends submitted articles' page that would aggregate all the stories and perhaps comments submitted by the people on my friends list. It would let people look at new articles being submitted without being deluged like in the current 'new' page. Anyone else think this feature would be good and actually used by us?
- danw 20y ago
  Also: This facebook group doesn't mean that YCN is missing some feature that fbook groups has. Being a member of a group in facebook is mainly about identity creation and signaling. It's so that anyone viewing my profile know that I'm into this 'YC news' thing. Edit: Looks like theres a new post on the facebook blog about how groups are used: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2249512130. "On the other hand, groups can be great just to declare an affiliation, such as my obsession with Thin Mints."
- arasakik 20y ago
  I'm sure pg has thought of this already, but it seems like there is a demand for more community features surrounding YC news. Unlike everyone else creating social networks for the sake of creating a social network, it looks as though you might be able to grow one organically here.
danielha 20y ago
Feature suggestion: A page in our profile that indicates recent activity pertaining to us, such as someone replying to your comment. Sometimes I reply to comments in older discussions and it's likely the person I am replying will never see it.
- pg 20y ago
  This is definitely coming soon.

18 points by danw 20y ago

juwo 20y ago

Isnt facebook only for college students? Why dont you put it somewhere else so that the rest of us can also join?

python_kiss 20y ago
YC represents a good demographic of undergrads, grads, and recently graduated students so I think it's a pretty good place to start it. Moreover, Facebook opened up to everyone two months ago. Alternatively, if Danw prefers, we can start a YC group on my social network instead (Shuzak.com). People don't have to register to post there.
danielha 20y ago
Facebook is now open to all users. I think the best place to organize would be somewhere we could add information and organize, such as the Infogami Wiki.

danw 20y ago

Facebook is open for everyone but mainly used by students. I created the group after noticing how many people joined the startup school event. Feel free to move over to shuzak, looks like it could become a great community and it matches the YCN demographic perfectly.

acgourley 20y ago
Does shuzak have a YCN demographic? From browsing the site briefly I found it hard to tell if it was for me or for people who collect Star Trek christmas tree decorations.
- danw 20y ago
  'collect Star Trek christmas decorations' Isnt that YCN? Kidding! It's a social network for geeks which sounds like us. Addmitedly I've barely used shuzak so I may be mistaken.
  - python_kiss 20y ago
    I estimate that 85% of the people on there are hackers. In fact, there are a number of users involved in actually coding the social network. Moreover, there is a chatroom there so we may converse in real-time. Here is the YC community: http://shuzak.com/Community.php?ID=6472
    - acgourley 20y ago
      0 users for the YC community, 5 for star trek Kidding. I'll check it out if its really 85% hackers.
  - python_kiss 20y ago
    Oh and for Star Trek lovers, please visit: http://shuzak.com/UniversalSearch.php?query=star&Type=Communities lol.

pg 20y ago

Are there some features I could add that would make YC News itself do what you need in this respect?

jwecker 20y ago
a photo upload per user so you can pick out someone you know here in a crowd, and a simple message queue (per user) would probably do it, imo.
danw 20y ago
I'm not sure if the facebook group is even going to be usefull apart from making it easier to find/contact other users. Now that we have an about field on profiles it will be easier to contact people. Anyone who wants to be contacted can stick a url/email in the field. Perhaps the ability to send messages to users? Or to add people as 'friends'? There are some people who consistently add article that I like and it would be great if I could add them as a 'friend' and then look at a 'your friends submitted articles' page that would aggregate all the stories and perhaps comments submitted by the people on my friends list. It would let people look at new articles being submitted without being deluged like in the current 'new' page. Anyone else think this feature would be good and actually used by us?
danw 20y ago
Also: This facebook group doesn't mean that YCN is missing some feature that fbook groups has. Being a member of a group in facebook is mainly about identity creation and signaling. It's so that anyone viewing my profile know that I'm into this 'YC news' thing. Edit: Looks like theres a new post on the facebook blog about how groups are used: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2249512130. "On the other hand, groups can be great just to declare an affiliation, such as my obsession with Thin Mints."
arasakik 20y ago
I'm sure pg has thought of this already, but it seems like there is a demand for more community features surrounding YC news. Unlike everyone else creating social networks for the sake of creating a social network, it looks as though you might be able to grow one organically here.

danielha 20y ago

Feature suggestion: A page in our profile that indicates recent activity pertaining to us, such as someone replying to your comment. Sometimes I reply to comments in older discussions and it's likely the person I am replying will never see it.

pg 20y ago
This is definitely coming soon.