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by holler 6y ago
In the short term I just want to stabilize the site and get it to a point where it's usable for most people. I'd like to solve some UI issues (many suggested via feedback), fix bugs etc. Eventually I'm hoping to get to a plac
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by holler 6y ago
haha! tbh I needed _something_ to be able to track versions for debugging purposes once I had some real users, and I ended up just using the client `v${commit number}.{last 5 commit hash}` Hope that answers it! thank you for checking out sq
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by holler 6y ago
thank you for the feedback and for taking the time to check sqwok out, I really appreciate it! have a nice day
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by holler 6y ago
hey thank you for checking it out! I realize that the back button is misleading and I plan to change it. I was thinking to make it behave more like a back button, perhaps with some context sort of how it works on e.g. instagram? Thank you f
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by holler 6y ago
It is a challenge to get something optimal for _most_ people! But I'd like to hear feedback and adjust if necessary. Thank you!
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by holler 6y ago
Hey thank you for the feedback and for checking it out! May I ask if you were on desktop or mobile? Definitely could adjust the font sizes and since I've been working mostly on my laptop, I realize I might not be optimizing for other s
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by holler 6y ago
hey thank you for the comments! 1) I've been focused on building it and hadn't thought much about open source or what that would look like until recently. I'd like to understand how similar projects that went open source did
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by holler 6y ago
Hello HN, I'm building sqwok.im, a new open discussion site that mixes real time messaging with news aggregation. I started building this because I wanted an open website for discussing news, science, technology, politics, and other ge
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Show HN: Sqwok – A low-cruft, minimalist alternative to Reddit and Twitter(sqwok.im)
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by holler 6y ago
> Bitcoin will hit $100k next year John McAfee would like to have a word with you...
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by holler 6y ago
> and I'm at a point in my life where I avoid that at all costs. I can only talk about my preferences about the world, not about how things ought to be, implying some sort of inherent value or divine moral good. It sounds like you a
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by holler 6y ago
exhale - Well, thankfully we get to watch again tomorrow. Pretty impressive that they could safely abort at the last second like that.
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by holler 6y ago
exciting! posted to sqwok.im for real time discussion since the youtube chat is disabled, https://sqwok.im/p/Tb64MwBsa0JMWQ
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by holler 6y ago
hey, thanks for checking it out, and yes there is a 20 char limit on the username length for now.. I looked around at other social sites and that seemed to be about the common length. Were you hoping to have a much longer name? I do plan to
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by holler 6y ago
> If you are in a contract with Twitch Interesting, so are you saying that to be profitable on Twitch you have to be under contract? I'm not familiar with how that works really, thanks for the commentary. I assumed that most creator
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by holler 6y ago
> Fourth, streaming platforms are incredibly expensive to create, maintain, and promote. They will not be profitable for a long, long time, on top of requiring mountains of cash to start. I agree with that and unless you have founders wh
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by holler 6y ago
hey, I definitely agree with you & I've thought about the scroll position issue recently. I want to improve it either by supporting both infinite scroll and paging, or find a way to build a hybrid that displays a page, while also h
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by holler 6y ago
thank you for checking it out & the thoughtful feedback, I appreciate it! 1) I've received this same feedback about the chevron being confusing before and I think this cements that it needs to be updated to work like a back button
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by holler 6y ago
Hey, the entire project is running aws services w/serverless py api, websockets, ember.js frontend, about a year to build so far... This is the 2nd go-around with an older v1 that was scrapped & rebuilt.
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by holler 6y ago
thank you
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by holler 6y ago
Thank You! The desire for ephemeral real-time discussion is what really drove the idea... As for the name (lol), at the time I was trying to think of something that represented what it was about, and came across the word "squawk".
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by holler 6y ago
To follow up with that, I want to try and mimic real life as much as possible, and avoid the incessant dopamine feedback loop that voting/liking promotes. That's sort of my guiding idea, to keep it razor focused just on conversati
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by holler 6y ago
hey good question, and it is experimental so we'll see how far it goes, but I think you could get more granular to detect things like unique message author/over rolling time period, account age, perhaps a private vote people could
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by holler 6y ago
If you're looking for a low-cruft, minimalist alternative to Reddit or Twitter that's focused on live conversation, check out https://sqwok.im Disclaimer I am building it. Key Points: - Minimalist design with focus on
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by holler 6y ago
Interesting, I see what you mean, but in my time working with python I've never seen that as an issue. Perhaps in different domains such as big data it might be a problem.
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by holler 6y ago
If you'd like to try a new option, check out https://sqwok.im
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by holler 6y ago
Curious why it would take 5 seconds? The way I'm using lambda, I compile the lambda build image beforehand which contains the python packages already installed, and the only "time" restraint is that of the lambda spinning up
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by holler 6y ago
thank you & Happy Thanksgiving dang & everyone else :D
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by holler 6y ago
yep, iot in us-east-1 not working for me
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by holler 6y ago
Back in the day http://eye4u.com had by far the most amazing flash animations of any site I'd seen. I don't know how they did it but their animations were next level for that time period. Apparently some of them are on

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