One seems to be completely empty and the remaining two seem to just be ideas for pro-ai and anti-ai respectively?
medv 16 hours ago [-]
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.
subscribed 1 days ago [-]
> invite only
Unkindness of the Crow.
Not even my local, most elitist hackerspace requires an introduction and, apparently, ideally a dossier.
I'll pass.
medv 15 hours ago [-]
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.
weedhopper 2 days ago [-]
What’s so different about it besides the invite-only model?
medv 15 hours ago [-]
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.
2 days ago [-]
vrighter 1 days ago [-]
what's the difference from lobste.rs?
medv 16 hours ago [-]
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.
vrighter 15 hours ago [-]
your last point is actually a huge turn off for me.
medv 14 hours ago [-]
this is why i think having different communities is a nice thing.
vrighter 42 minutes ago [-]
it's just that most of the self promotion going on over here is ai slop nowadays (oh you vibe coded an app? the whole "point" of it is that anyone can do it, so your vibecoded thing is completely uninteresting).
And you want more of that? Does not compute, for me
jefurii 2 days ago [-]
Looks cool but it's another one of those exclusive invite-only communities.
medv 15 hours ago [-]
I guess this is pretty much the point people don't like. I will redo the the registration.
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44973208
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967391
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789661
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.
Unkindness of the Crow.
Not even my local, most elitist hackerspace requires an introduction and, apparently, ideally a dossier.
I'll pass.
And you want more of that? Does not compute, for me