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I want to like this, but there's something conflicting about "thoughtful content" and being forced to throw it away (or have your post become extremely long).
by dusted 4y ago
I want to like this, but there's something conflicting about "thoughtful content" and being forced to throw it away (or have your post become extremely long).
If I put thought and effort into writing something relatively long-form (otherwise, is this just single-post twitter?), I don't want it to disappear, I want it to be archived when I post something new.
Still, doing stuff is cool, so great job! Also, I like the design of the site :)
- isitmadeofglass 4y ago[dead]
- DanielVZ 4y agoThanks for the kind words :) I get your point, but the idea is to strike a balance between something being meaningful and relevant. As the user, you are in charge of that - deciding what to keep and what to delete. That adds a taste of FOMO to the site that in my opinion makes it even more interesting.
- klyrs 4y ago> That adds a taste of FOMO... If your aim is to avoid the dopamine, I think encoraging FOMO is a bit self-defeating. Perhaps limiting posts to daily, weekly, or monthly might make sense? Letting people work on a queue with scheduled posts could encourage thoughtfulness.
- smitty1e 4y agoIf the site has some git repo backing, it can remember the past.
- version_five 4y agoReading and writing on HN, I see (not always obviously) some very good and thoughtful posts. Most of these are relevant to the present in which they are written, and quickly get buried under new stuff. So I don't think it's a big stretch to just have old ones disappear
- ablob 4y agoI do, as I like to bookmark stuff that I find interesting to share or look up again later. Having it disappear at a whim with the only hope being that it was archived such that I can access it makes the web a bit less meaningful to me. Finding out that something's gone after looking for it is already happening often enough, there's no need to increase that.
- SyzygistSix 4y agoIt's writing. A text file. Archive it yourself. Or do you mean archive it but leave it visible? That seems to not be the point of the website.