Rings.social – Reddit-API compatible and Open Source content-voting platform
rings.social
rings.social
The good thing is that I made it as a variable: https://github.com/rings-social/frontend/blob/master/src/ass...
PRs are welcome :)
the people who care about sites running without js also don't contribute to revenue either.
like genuinely i don't think there's a more miserable crowd to support, with stronger preferences.
* Don't like to pay for anything
* overly privacy conscious and minimalistic
* highly opinionated, vocal and demanding in ways that probably won't help the mainstream (eg want high customisablity)
* high levels of autism mean they focus on irrelevant minutae, often perfectionistic. low appreciation of aesthetics
* accept things that are broken/way too difficult to use for non technical people
* dismissive of things that are easy if they could build them as well
Etc, etc
You could use activity pub to handle a “personal front page” that includes stuff from other instances per user.
Maybe a bit naieve but that’s basically what I’d want at this point. Maybe I just want ye olde hyper-focused forums?
For starters, individual posts in the Explore view[0] are wayyyy too big, while not providing much information at all. Look at the Comments button, for instance: why is that on a separate line?
After 5 minutes of experimentation, I was able to condense the post item down to the following: https://i.imgur.com/KthkpPQ.png While it does have some kinks, it looks much better and presents a greater amount of information in about 30% less space. Low-hanging fruit, I'd say.
As the site grows we'll add more actions most likely, and those will end up on that line.
We're always open for suggestions and PRs - but yours is already a valuable comment. Thanks!
Bots are definitely going to be a challenge regardless of the API
Granted, a lot of the decisions they're making over there lately would indicate otherwise, so maybe they'll love the idea.
Side note, anyone finding good alternatives? Obviously I love this forum as it does feel more like Old Reddit. But it's scratching a different itch for me. I've been experimenting with the Fediverse and it feels like it's one great app away from taking off. I'm very interested to see this Wikipedia-adjacent project that is supposed to come out and be the new Reddit.
I like the philosophy as well, and I miss the high(er) quality discussions reddit used to have. I have liked H News for a while but there are some itches it doesn't scratch which Reddit used to.
HN is a one/few shot opportunity and you better make a good impression.
The last time I helped launch a forum, this was migrating a group mailing list to vBulletin. With some research, I did locate this Reddit post with some tips. [0]
Since this is 2023, One could also use ChatGPT Plus (GPT-4) [1] to generate the content, or the GPT-4 API if available.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/modguide/comments/e7ircv/how_to_see...
Any interest to refactor it into an independent package, or is it tied into your own data model?
I'm just not sure if at that point it makes more sense for you to just create that part yourself
What's designed poorly? Can you extend your feedback a bit please?
The page I land on needs to make it immediately clear why the site is useful. No explanations or hand waving.
I think one of the issues with the search bar, when I posted the link here, was that it was assuming the user inserted some text in lowercase - which is of course a wrong assumption.
On top of that, the search bar currently only searches through the rings [1] which is a very limited list. Of course the search bar will improve over time, but there isn't much to search now :)