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by flancian 6y ago
To be clear, the Agora is not a centralized network . Its architecture is very simple but it's already decentralized; users keep full control of their data. I also intend to evolve it in the direction of a fully distributed system. Se
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by flancian 6y ago
Thanks a lot for your feedback! It is very valuable. I've tried improving [[node]] with your feedback in mind. Yes, I agree; all text is a continuous work in progress. What you see in the Agora are my notes about the Agora as I develop
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by flancian 6y ago
Yes, definitely! The current architecture is the simplest distributed architecture I could come up with to get started: the Agora pulls from a series of git repositories that its users maintain, these repositories containing Markdown notes
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by flancian 6y ago
The intention here is to fully support [[rdf]] as the Agora grows; I am just getting up to speed with it, but I'm in contact with more knowledgeable people thankfully :) My current hypothesis is that [[wikilinks]] on top of the block c
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by flancian 6y ago
Oh, interesting -- why do you think so? I considered this for a while and I didn't find any downsides. It's open source; can be forked anytime by anyone. I do this on my free time.
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by flancian 6y ago
Thank you for your feedback! I've tried to address it with the latest update to [[agora]]. In short, hopefully https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25577016 provides the gist of it. Additionally I set up [[goals]] to t
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by flancian 6y ago
Ahoy! If you would like to collaborate, the Agora is [[open source]] :) I know what you mean w.r.t. Markdown syntax. One thing I'm trying to do with the Agora is to use a single extension ([[wikilinks]]) as much as I can; see for examp
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by flancian 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback; sorry for the inconvenience. I'll probably add a 'github' chip somewhere on the page. https://anagora.org/node/open-source lists all relevant repositories.
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by flancian 6y ago
Thank you, noted: https://anagora.org/node/other-agoras
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by flancian 6y ago
Thank you for the great question! The intent here is definitely to embrace [[RDF]] and any other applicable semantic web technologies and standards -- the [[Agora Server]] is only about one month old so really quite early stage, and I only
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by flancian 6y ago
You don't! I appreciate the question. The quick and fuzzy answer is: whatever the community wants it to be :) My current view follows. In a nutshell: * The Agora is meant to be a goal-oriented social network specializing in problem
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by flancian 6y ago
The community does :) Google owns the copyright, as can be seen in the LICENSE file and headers, but the totality of the project is open source (Apache). I own https://anagora.org in particular and plan to run it as a public ser
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by flancian 6y ago
Haha, thank you kindly! That's music to my ears. It is definitely inspired by the internet ca. 2000, when I went online.
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by flancian 6y ago
Thank you for your feedback! Getting it to be good enough for HN'ers is the right first step :) The hypothesis is that "niche" might be good enough to bootstrap something more generally interesting.
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by flancian 6y ago
Thank you for your feedback! I will keep iterating on the text. Overall I agree though :) Its interestingness might scale with user activity, being a social network. https://anagora.org/ might clarify what it does : it sur
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by flancian 6y ago
Thank you for your feedback! It is important to me. The Agora is currently costly to set up, but cheap to use after that. https://anagora.org/node/agora-editor for pointers on what the environment I use looks like. I
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by flancian 6y ago
http://anagora.org/node/agora for a high level view. http://anagora.org/node/agora-plan for a development journal+plan. http://anagora.org/node/agora-protocol for interaction
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by flancian 6y ago
Hi there! I'm the founder. This is my "hobby project". I work at Google as an SRE. One of the ideas here is to integrate the Agora with existing social networks: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1
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Show HN: The Agora – an experimental social network(anagora.org)
157 points by flancian 6y ago|91 comments
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by flancian 6y ago
I wonder if there's an opportunity here for someone to snag a domain such as oldreadit.com (it's available right now) and set up shop, ready to offer disgruntled old.reddit.com users a new home when it's inevitably turned dow
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by flancian 6y ago
Ahoy! I'm the author. This is my weekend project. My day job is as an SRE at Google. Please feel free to ask me anything!
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Show HN: The Agora is a cheap hub(anagora.org)
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by flancian 6y ago
Google Meet has tiled view on web.
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by flancian 6y ago
This sounded interesting so I looked it up; it seems it might be a popular misconception? > The term asbestos is traceable to Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder's manuscript Natural History and his use of the term asbestinon, meaning
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by flancian 6y ago
Twitter has notoriously flaky search in my experience; it is clearly geared towards discovering new content and not towards finding content you engaged with previously. This misses the point often, as more and more people use Twitter as a s
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by flancian 6y ago
I started an Agora: https://anagora.org . The Agora is an enhanced social contract for the internet: https://anagora.org/wiki/Agora The site itself is just based on MediaWiki, no ad-hoc code for now. In the
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Is now available for free to all Google accounts(meet.google.com)
2 points by flancian 6y ago|0 comments
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Google Meet video conferencing is now free for anybody(theverge.com)
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by flancian 7y ago
I'm an engineering manager with a team of six and a cross-functional project. I seem to average 15 hours of scheduled meetings a week, plus impromptu one offs (firefighting, escalations). I find it quite draining: meetings and email do
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by flancian 7y ago
I'd say let's do both; let's try every approach, in rational proportions. There is likely an optimal ratio of spending between humanitarian causes and existential risks. What is it? Is this ratio, and others that have the pot

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