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Comment by _as31 | Hacker News Reader

I feel like Lobsters has better quality discourse nowadays though, due to its much more explicit vetting system. I am not part of that website, yet I love reading the comment section there.

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Just looked at lobsters and there are zero comments on almost all posts.

Q.E.D.

Signed up day one with a one char username. Tried to use it a few years later and by then it had been deleted. Understandable I guess, but I'm still salty about it. Just had to get that story off my chest.

What is this? My Google-fu is weak.

lobste.rs is what I can find. Likely tries to make its SEO as bad as possible to avoid discovery, which is kinda funny.

Was lobster.rs ways invite only? I thought I remembered having an account a long time ago...but my email isn't registered when I go to reset my PW. Because it's a much smaller community it does suffer from low comment counts on posts. Comments are the best part of HN.

Invite only to write, open to read. But the main trick is tracking the invite tree - if the person that invited you gets banned, you get banned too (or need to appeal to have your “branch” of the invite tree adopted by someone else).

So if jcs somehow gets banned, the whole place shuts down?

I find the idea of the site intriguing yet I'm not sure what I could contribute.

It is largely the same as HN

Except HN is a mix of tech-bro entrepreneur types and developers, whereas the other site is exclusively developers (with an emphasis on open source).

jcs started the site, so him getting banned would be quite a feat indeed!

(although it would be an amusing way to shut the site down if he gets tired of maintaining it...)

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