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Nice to see that I'm not alone in trying to build a better social news site as a side project. And by the way, when you say "we", we all know there's only one o

by travism 18y ago

Nice to see that I'm not alone in trying to build a better social news site as a side project. And by the way, when you say "we", we all know there's only one of you. And forget about scaling. Learned that long ago myself... My side project is at http://mushpot.net http://mushpot.net, and I think the goals are similar to sqrt(2): - multiple votes - make it harder to game the system - give more productive members more influence over the content But instead of having users solve puzzles, on Mush Pot, the amount you get to vote depends on how many votes your submissions have received. And since I'm already started, here are some of the other ideas behind it: - long posts, not just links (posts can have hyperlinks) - there's no difference between top-level posts and comments..anything can appear on the front page - make users provide a reason for downvoting (or pile onto a reason given by another user) - tags, ability to weight your front page using tags And it also lets you login with Facebook and post your submissions back to your Facebook feed. Wow, I'm impressing myself with the length of this feature list, although I have been building the site for quite a while. Now, everyone, at the count of three...click...HERE!: http://mushpot.net http://mushpot.net

drewcrawford 18y ago
Actually, there are three of us: http://www.experimenthouse.com/bio http://www.experimenthouse.com/bio (Come on, the link was in the profile... seriously?) Not to start a flamewar, but did you really look? We've got markdown support (which means images, links, long posts, emphasis, lists). We also hand out currency based on received votes (as well as puzzle solves). The "anything can hit the front page" is an interesting idea though. I thought about that, but I wondered how well it would work for discussions, which often don't make sense out-of-context. I poked around, but I didn't see any comments hit the mushpot FP. How well does that work in practice? Instead, we moved a few "best" comments for each story into the RSS feed. Hopefully that will give good comments high visibility while also providing some context for what's going on.

by travism 18y ago

drewcrawford 18y ago

Actually, there are three of us: http://www.experimenthouse.com/bio http://www.experimenthouse.com/bio (Come on, the link was in the profile... seriously?) Not to start a flamewar, but did you really look? We've got markdown support (which means images, links, long posts, emphasis, lists). We also hand out currency based on received votes (as well as puzzle solves). The "anything can hit the front page" is an interesting idea though. I thought about that, but I wondered how well it would work for discussions, which often don't make sense out-of-context. I poked around, but I didn't see any comments hit the mushpot FP. How well does that work in practice? Instead, we moved a few "best" comments for each story into the RSS feed. Hopefully that will give good comments high visibility while also providing some context for what's going on.