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Hi HN. I made this over the last few months. The idea is to have an activity feed which is randomly generated, and only refreshes once every 24 hours. The aut
by s_kilk 12y ago
Hi HN. I made this over the last few months.
The idea is to have an activity feed which is randomly generated, and only refreshes once every 24 hours.
The auth system incorporates some ideas discussed in this thread (The God Login): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8861800 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8861800
I'm happy to answer any questions!
- tenpoundhammer 12y agoI'm confused about why a person would want to use this? If I only get a random "tweet" every 24 hours that lacks context, I don't see myself coming back often. Two suggestions: 1. Allow the user to configure how often they get new thoughts. 2. Allow voting so that hopefully the random thoughts that are actually worth reading propagate out and people are reading something worth reading.
- sciguy77 12y agoI actually really like this as a reaction against Twitter. You only get one thing to say per day, so you want to make it count. And I don't want another site to visit 50 times per day, once is enough. Kudos to the creator, this is really neat.
- tenpoundhammer 12y agoI like the idea of only being able to post once a day, but I think the solution would be more fun if you could read as much you want.
- s_kilk 12y agoThanks! That means a lot to mea, if even a few people get a kick out of it then it was worth the effort.
- bovermyer 12y agoAs long as this doesn't become a playground of spam, I could see it as being a great place to get inspiration for... just about anything. For example, I shared my recipe for eggnog just now. That could be useful for someone, right?
- s_kilk 12y agoSure, why not? We could all do with a little more eggnog in our lives.
- remyferre 12y agoThe god login is really an interesting idea ! Could you elaborate on your choice about the random feed?
- s_kilk 12y agoI like the idea of a random, or semi-random, feed of content that the user has no real control over. You don't get to build yourself an echo-chamber. It's actually mostly inspired by postsecret.com in that way. People submit things, a feed is generated (or curated, in the case of PostSecret). EDIT: I think later on we could introduce a form of upvoting, which would influence the odds of a given thought (or further thoughts from that author) ending up in a feed.
- kylestlb 12y agoHow about restrict the upvoting too? You're only allowed to upvote/recommend a single post per day :)
- benplumley 12y agoI like this. You could only allow a user to upvote one of the posts on each day's feed, which increases that post's author's probability of being put on a feed.
- s_kilk 12y agoYes, I think the upvotes would be restricted in the same way as posting thoughts.