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Show HN:A Discussion Site for (Pilot)Hindu-Religious Groups Based on Hacker News

hindumediawiki.com

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I don't understand, I only see one religion (Hinduism) being discussed, how is it a discussion site for religious groups?

Its an pilot with one religion , we will make it open for all other religions

That's not clear from the website itself - regardless, it would be better to reflect the website as is in the title here.

EDIT - title changed, cheers.

Sure I agree, I edited the title :) It was in hurry actually but the idea is to have it for all religions. Since most of our contributors were from the particular religion we started of with that.

I suspect OP's confusion (and mine) stems from the domain name - it singles out a single religion (Hinduism). I'd be interested in knowing how the site will accommodate discussions on other faiths without changing that domain name.

I think its not possible with same domain name so we are looking for alternative domain and will have subdomains for diff religions.

You can suggest some good top level domain name ideas.

theotalk.net is unclaimed at the time of this writing. :)

I mentioned about the title because at the bottom of your website it says: "Hindu Media Wiki is a Resource sharing and discussion site for followers of the Hindu religion and those interested in learning more about Hinduism." This would be a better title in my opinion, regardless the idea you have for all religions is a nice one.

Thanks, yes it would be a good title which I missed it.

Agree, Hindu should clearly be in the title of the OP here.

EDIT - title changed, cheers.

You might also want to look for potential inspiration at the religious discussion sites at Stack Exchange.

https://judaism.stackexchange.com/

https://christianity.stackexchange.com/

Thanks! This will definitely guide us on content ideas and growth of community.

There's also already https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/

Hmmm, it looks like the new site's disclaimer is copied directly from this page, even including the same capitalization!

Why have Media Wiki in the name if you aren't actually using MediaWiki?

Actually this site is dedicated to share the existing media and to allow users to discuss that media. Kind of meta media so we kept as media wiki.

Also we are so much stuck in solving chicken egg problem of content here , can anyone share the early days of hackernews? like how it started growing?

I vaguely remember a mildly cultish obsession with lisp and PG.

I get it, power users must be having cultish obsession around the topics, m sensing some parallel directions

A discussion site for various religious groups inspired from the design of hacker news.

People may like this techi flavour in design in otherewide very shiny and colour rich websites of religious content. Suggest your views :)

This is quite cool! What's the focus on this site vs. r/Hinduism and other such subreddits?

actually r/Hinduism is not focused on strict discussion based on scripture also there are many kind of media formate involved like images,videos etc, for example religious groups have many rules and hierarchy based on scriptures to decide the quality of posts which is not found in r/Hinduism.

What sort of hierarchy?

so thats why we started with the category tree itself.

instead of flat tags, that's one visual difference

Is this a open source version you can download and use yourself ? How was this built ?

There is one php version of hackernews which we have used to start but there were many changes done to suit the needs.

You can check the php version here https://github.com/Kandepet/HackerNews

can users of other than Buddhism religion customize "karma" into something else, like probably "mitzvah" for Judaism or whatever is used for sin/virtue credit maintenance in Christianity?

Thats very fine idea, will do it for sure

Will this be open sourced?

we are planning to do so once we come up with a suitable alternative wiki design, currently working on stable production for the forum first.

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