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This is a great idea and one that will happen in the near future. To answer your questions: 1. No it wasn't created by pg and it's not associated with him or y
by thisisdallas 13y ago
This is a great idea and one that will happen in the near future. To answer your questions:
1. No it wasn't created by pg and it's not associated with him or ycombinator. Of course Arc is definitely associated with pg, Libre News is not.
2. Personally, I created this site because I am interested in Arc and wanted to experiment with it. I also wanted to provide a service for others (one that I was also interested in) and a non-censored news source that encouraged discussion seemed like a good idea.
- yogo 13y agoIt can be powered by Arc but did you have to use the same crappy table-based layout? I'd have to think these kinds of sites would save some bandwidth by simply trimming all that fat.
- sillysaurus2 13y agoCan we please not start this flamewar again? It's been done to death and there's nothing new to be said.
- jere 13y agoOK. Fair enough. I wasn't trying to be negative, but was genuinely wondering why so many HN clones are made. As a learning experience, it makes sense. Anyway, definitely do the About page because otherwise it won't be obvious that it's meant to be a "non-censored news source."
- gknoy 13y agoWould you be interested in blogging about any changes you made, or particularly interesting/tricky things you found in the sources, while creating this? I haven't looked closely at ARC, so perhaps this is a foolish question, but was this as turn-key as unpacking the distribution, changing some names and colors, and running it on some server, or did you need to make substantial changes in order to make it your own, or even to get it to run?