Crow Watch: A Hacker News Alternative
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by medv
1 day ago
| 5 comments
| crow.watch
| HN
vivzkestrel
1 day ago
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weedhopper
1 day ago
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One seems to be completely empty and the remaining two seem to just be ideas for pro-ai and anti-ai respectively?
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medv
13 hours ago
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those looks not very promising.

building a community is hard. but i'm dedicated to a building a small tech community anyway.

this is why i'm investing into building crow.watch.

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subscribed
1 day ago
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> invite only

Unkindness of the Crow.

Not even my local, most elitist hackerspace requires an introduction and, apparently, ideally a dossier.

I'll pass.

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medv
13 hours ago
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The offline community does not have a problem with spammers/impersonators. For online communities this is much more difficult. I don't know what kind of struggle and filtering HN implemented to deal this it. But I do not want to build complicated anti-abuse systems. Right now registration is open, after certain size i will "restrict" registrations.
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weedhopper
1 day ago
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What’s so different about it besides the invite-only model?
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medv
13 hours ago
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The https://crow.watch is heavily inspired by lobster. basically same algorithm, same flagging, amd tag filtering. one key difference is [show] tag with dedicated "Show" page. A feature from HN, which lobster does not have. Invite-only where is only to prevent spam in the future. I will rephrase the login page. Will make it "open" and as we see spammers will close down.
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vrighter
23 hours ago
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what's the difference from lobste.rs?
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medv
13 hours ago
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I was a lobster user for 7y. but i find it now way to big, and moderation is strange sometimes. I think, having an additional community is nice. No need to concentrate everybody in one or two website. And there are multiple communities already! I thought I can build one with not such restrictive self-promo rules as on lobster.
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vrighter
12 hours ago
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your last point is actually a huge turn off for me.
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medv
11 hours ago
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this is why i think having different communities is a nice thing.
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jefurii
1 day ago
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Looks cool but it's another one of those exclusive invite-only communities.
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medv
12 hours ago
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I guess this is pretty much the point people don't like. I will redo the the registration.
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