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Can you please refer me to some comments which highlight PG's intention on launching such a site?

by nreece 19y ago

rms 19y ago
Someone submitted a question asking PG what philosophy books he recommended. He answered the question and killed the thread... I said that he should spin off an off-topic part of the site, and he said that he was seriously considering launching it on a separate domain. I can't find it with any of the searches because it was marked dead...
- dfranke 19y ago
  Here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30048 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30048 Found by taking the text from the copy of Paul's response to the question that he put on his RAQ page and googling it.
pg 19y ago
Here's one. The goal would be to make a site that would never become super popular, but just have the kind of people who used reddit in the first year. It wouldn't make sense for a startup to deliberately make something that wasn't meant to be popular. For something like this to exist it has to be done by someone doing it as a hobby.
- nreece 19y ago
  It's an excellent idea Paul. Reddit and Digg have become polluted. A fresh, simple, laid-back approach will surely be worth daily reading among a small group of followers.
- thingsilearned 19y ago
  http://www.grupl.com http://www.grupl.com has the same functionality as reddit. It was started by my friend Zach and has now morphed into a facebook app. Its still small. If you post something there it will probably make the front page shortly.
  - paulgb 19y ago
    Judging from the content, that site targets a different audience than what the poster/commenters are looking for. Case in point: "Cats + Crazy Captions = Comedy Gold!".
- zaidf 19y ago
  This is something specialized underground forums have managed to do by using referrals. Like you said, you can't do this for a start-up but if you add members one by one, it is possible to build a concentrated community of few hundred members.
- srini 19y ago
  I think a social news site can be super-popular and still avoid the associated problems if it transparently split its user base in a clever way. For example, you could weight the votes by how close the voter's registration date is to yours.

Can you please refer me to some comments which highlight PG's intention on launching such a site?

by nreece 19y ago

Can you please refer me to some comments which highlight PG's intention on launching such a site?

rms 19y ago

Someone submitted a question asking PG what philosophy books he recommended. He answered the question and killed the thread... I said that he should spin off an off-topic part of the site, and he said that he was seriously considering launching it on a separate domain. I can't find it with any of the searches because it was marked dead...

dfranke 19y ago
Here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30048 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30048 Found by taking the text from the copy of Paul's response to the question that he put on his RAQ page and googling it.

pg 19y ago

Here's one. The goal would be to make a site that would never become super popular, but just have the kind of people who used reddit in the first year. It wouldn't make sense for a startup to deliberately make something that wasn't meant to be popular. For something like this to exist it has to be done by someone doing it as a hobby.

nreece 19y ago
It's an excellent idea Paul. Reddit and Digg have become polluted. A fresh, simple, laid-back approach will surely be worth daily reading among a small group of followers.
thingsilearned 19y ago
http://www.grupl.com http://www.grupl.com has the same functionality as reddit. It was started by my friend Zach and has now morphed into a facebook app. Its still small. If you post something there it will probably make the front page shortly.
- paulgb 19y ago
  Judging from the content, that site targets a different audience than what the poster/commenters are looking for. Case in point: "Cats + Crazy Captions = Comedy Gold!".
zaidf 19y ago
This is something specialized underground forums have managed to do by using referrals. Like you said, you can't do this for a start-up but if you add members one by one, it is possible to build a concentrated community of few hundred members.
srini 19y ago
I think a social news site can be super-popular and still avoid the associated problems if it transparently split its user base in a clever way. For example, you could weight the votes by how close the voter's registration date is to yours.