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I am building a project (https://linklonk.com) that does information discovery in a way that respects your attention. In short, when you upvote content you connect to other people upvoted that content and to feeds that posted that content. So to get your attention other users need to prove to be a good curator of content for you.

I'm planning to do a "Show HN" post next week for it and would appreciate any feedback that I could address before it. We have about 4 active users and a couple more would be great.

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Really like this idea, something I've been thinking about for a while. Will join and give the tyres a kick :-)

Thanks! It looks like 13 people signed up, which is really encouraging.

I wrote about the performance tuning I did in preparation to the Shown HN post: https://linklonk.com/item/277645707356438528

If you have any feedback please add a comment to that post.

Hey, site down?

Yes, I managed to delete the "A" DNS record last night when I was adding records for mail hosting linklonk.com. Sorry! It is up now.

The "Show HN" post is up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28405643

Hmm... did you happen to work at Google? The concept and the UI seems very familiar.

Bug report: the UI on interacting with posts in the “From feeds and users that recommended this” section is broken.

Thank you! Indeed, the upvote button on those item-based recommendations didn't work. It is fixed now.

Seems good but the UI can be improved IMO.

I have two questions please:

- Is there a list of all the feeds used by LinkLonk?

- How many users are there today?

Do you have any specific suggestions on how to UI? Small tweaks would be most appreciated as I could implement them before the upcoming Show HN post.

To answer your questions:

1. The list of all feeds used by LinkLonk is not publicly accessible through the website. They are feeds that users explicitly submitted through https://linklonk.com/submit or feeds that LinkLonk parsed from the meta tags of the links that users submitted.

2. The number of active users has been about 4 for the last few months. I'm hoping to get it to 10 this year.

When and how are you planning to change your Terms of Use / Privacy Policy? That kind of information should be in the documents. Your privacy policy is currently insufficient.

> We only collect your information for the purpose of providing this service.

Okay, but what information do you collect? “Your information” is too broad; if you're collecting my retinal scans or matching me to a behavioural analytics profile, you need to justify it. If you're not (which you're not), say so!

> You can delete your account and all your data at any time (see Profile).

But can I take all my data out? Currently, no; that's not a GDPR violation, so long as you provide it on request, but it's certainly a feature I like to have!

The 30-day deletion threshold for anonymous accounts is (IANALaTINLA) GDPR-compliant, since you have to delete personal information (on request) within 30 days, and that happens even if you can't figure out whose account details you should be deleting. Good job.

I share your concerns about user privacy. The information LinkLonk collects is what you explicitly provide (ratings, etc) and the regular server request logs (which include your ip address, user agent). I clarified this in https://linklonk.com/privacy

I do want to add functionality to download your ratings. I'm thinking of exporting the ratings data in either the bookmarks format (ie, the format that browsers use to export bookmarks: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1319392), csv or json. Please let me know what format would be most useful.

Yeah, that's great now. (You're collecting even less than I expected!) Thanks for making LinkLonk.

JSON would probably be easiest to start with, because it's easy to generate, easy to read and well-defined. Bookmarks would be a nice extra, though.

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