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A twitter/imageboard system where it takes 2 weeks for messages to appear once posted. The idea being that messages still relevant in 2 weeks are important and

by pubby 13y ago

A twitter/imageboard system where it takes 2 weeks for messages to appear once posted. The idea being that messages still relevant in 2 weeks are important and interesting ones.

kbar13 13y ago
This is an interesting idea. However, it's not always the case that timeless messages are more important than messages that are important during a specific timeframe. In addition, most people nowadays expect things to have instant feedback. How would you address that concern?
NoodleIncident 13y ago
I had a similar idea a while ago. Basically: a reddit/HN clone, but at any given time only one article can be commented on. That article is replaced every day or every hour (whatever interval makes sense) with the highest-upvoted submission that doesn't have comments yet. The goal would be to encourage deeper discussion of matters, rather than fleeting posts. I have no idea if tree-style comments would be better than just a simple forum thread. A major part of the site would also be scrolling through all of the past articles, and being able to read all of the previous discussions.
- notduncansmith 13y ago
  Very interesting. Kinda like Woot (a daily deal site) for discussions. I like it! Could do a super-lean MVP implementation with Wordpress + Disqus or Branch.
- Spittie 13y ago
  That's a really nice idea, I'm sure such a site has the potential to generate very high-quality discussions about a topic. The only problem I see, is that the audience of HN (and Reddit even more) is big and has many different interests. It's very hard to cover those interests with only an article a day, and many might just lose interests after a bunch of days without anything interesting for them. Moving the cadence down would probably help, I think the sweet spot might be around 4/6 articles a day. I think I'd also try to bring down the number of submissions compared to HN. HN gets a lot of those, and it's good, but I don't think it would be healthy for such a site. I can think off limiting the number of submissions an account can do every day/week, limiting submissions to accounts older than X days (this is mostly to avoid spam) and/or having a pay-for-submission system (not real money, but karma or other similar things).
- notduncansmith 13y ago
  Update: I built this. http://threadaday.github.io/ http://threadaday.github.io/
lazyant 13y ago
https://bufferapp.com/faq https://bufferapp.com/faq ?
dpix 13y ago
I've thought about the opposite of this idea for a while, a social media platform where your posts/updates only last for a few days or perhaps longer based on engagement. How many people really look at your Facebook profile / Twitter feed from years ago, or even a few weeks ago? People are really only interested in what's happening right now. I guess this has kinda been filled by snapchat but only for photos, why not everything

by pubby 13y ago

A twitter/imageboard system where it takes 2 weeks for messages to appear once posted. The idea being that messages still relevant in 2 weeks are important and interesting ones.

kbar13 13y ago

This is an interesting idea. However, it's not always the case that timeless messages are more important than messages that are important during a specific timeframe. In addition, most people nowadays expect things to have instant feedback. How would you address that concern?

NoodleIncident 13y ago

I had a similar idea a while ago. Basically: a reddit/HN clone, but at any given time only one article can be commented on. That article is replaced every day or every hour (whatever interval makes sense) with the highest-upvoted submission that doesn't have comments yet. The goal would be to encourage deeper discussion of matters, rather than fleeting posts. I have no idea if tree-style comments would be better than just a simple forum thread. A major part of the site would also be scrolling through all of the past articles, and being able to read all of the previous discussions.

notduncansmith 13y ago
Very interesting. Kinda like Woot (a daily deal site) for discussions. I like it! Could do a super-lean MVP implementation with Wordpress + Disqus or Branch.
Spittie 13y ago
That's a really nice idea, I'm sure such a site has the potential to generate very high-quality discussions about a topic. The only problem I see, is that the audience of HN (and Reddit even more) is big and has many different interests. It's very hard to cover those interests with only an article a day, and many might just lose interests after a bunch of days without anything interesting for them. Moving the cadence down would probably help, I think the sweet spot might be around 4/6 articles a day. I think I'd also try to bring down the number of submissions compared to HN. HN gets a lot of those, and it's good, but I don't think it would be healthy for such a site. I can think off limiting the number of submissions an account can do every day/week, limiting submissions to accounts older than X days (this is mostly to avoid spam) and/or having a pay-for-submission system (not real money, but karma or other similar things).
notduncansmith 13y ago
Update: I built this. http://threadaday.github.io/ http://threadaday.github.io/

lazyant 13y ago

https://bufferapp.com/faq https://bufferapp.com/faq ?

dpix 13y ago

I've thought about the opposite of this idea for a while, a social media platform where your posts/updates only last for a few days or perhaps longer based on engagement. How many people really look at your Facebook profile / Twitter feed from years ago, or even a few weeks ago? People are really only interested in what's happening right now. I guess this has kinda been filled by snapchat but only for photos, why not everything