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Do you know why they die out so quickly? Is it just because they didn't generate enough interest? It doesn't seem like it'd be costly or time-intensive to mai
by texjer 15y ago
Do you know why they die out so quickly? Is it just because they didn't generate enough interest? It doesn't seem like it'd be costly or time-intensive to maintain.
- genieyclo 15y agoWell in New Mogul's case, nickb has been gone for a long time, and has basically vanished. The domain expired a while ago and he stopped paying the bills when he vanished. BrainRacer's edu news site was shut down due to a lack of traction mainly, but it would probably be best to actually ask the founder as to why exactly. Fwiw, I also ran a short-lived HN clone for a few months (also for education news) but killed it; mainly because of a lack of traction, and I didn't care too much to keep it up. Only about 15 registered users were on it, and only 4 active submitters, including myself.
- texjer 15y agoYeah, I'm afraid to put a ton of work into learning how to do this if it's just going to fail when I don't get that critical mass of users.
- genieyclo 15y agoWell, it's very simple to actually run a site running on news.arc The guide here http://arclanguage.org/install http://arclanguage.org/install and the how-to-run-news file you extract make it simple to have it up and running in under a couple of minutes. It's just a question of whether you want to run it. I just did it to try out arc and see how HN ran in the back, but it got expensive to run it in aws all the time with no actual users or tangible benefit.