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Hacker News clone for Singapore

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One suggestion I have is to reduce the number of links on the frontpage to say 15 instead of 30 until there's a little more traffic on the site.

On the whole, great effort! Look forward to participating.

Ok good suggestion. I'll dig around the code to change that when the traffic dies down.

Check out http://newmogul.com/ and see how any article with comments has the comment count emboldened.

What is the benefit of a region-specific version of Hacker News, especially one that is also in English? Most of what's discussed on this site is relevant to tech and the business of tech in general.

That's true in general, but the business of tech can sometimes benefit from local knowledge. A submission about the best lawyers for tech startups in Singapore wouldn't really be appropriate for HN since it wouldn't benefit a large part of the audience.

It also helps to have a site where there's a high chance that the person you're talking to is close enough to meet up for coffee. =)

This is a fundamental flaw in communities on the net in general, they don't gracefully combine different scopes.

Are you in Singapore? Would love to meet up.

Yup. Meeting up sounds good. I sent you an email.

Me too. Email in profile.

Hey I can't see your email address. I think you need to move it to the about field in your profile because the email field is hidden from public view. My address is in my profile if you want to email me.

So is the source behind HN available somewhere? Would love to setup it up for other verticals...

I suggest you follow these steps: http://arclanguage.org/install

It's viewable here too http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/dca901c0cb59ebb533a511df3a84...

Great work. I think it would be great when you guys start cover the region, like Indonesia. I hardly can find any Indonesian startups so far. Unfortunately, i don't live in the country.

Also, check http://123emprender.com for a spanish community about hacking/entrepreneurship

At least 123emprender.com took some liberties with the design. Sigint.sg took the design along with the functionality.

It was actually never intended for sigint.sg to seem like it was created independently. There's a link back to Hacker News in the FAQ: http://www.sigint.sg/faq

While we are talking looks I might as well add that the light blue header doesn't go too well with the brown background. #BFDFF9 would look better.

Ok noted. Let me mess around with that when the site is restarted next.

That's because it's powered by Reddit, not Arc. They're both about the same in terms of undesign.

What's the startup scene in SG like? Also, are their consumer Internet companies mostly English-language, or multilingual?

Not yet comparable to the bay area but definitely picking up. There also seems to be a genuine desire by the government here to see the startup scene flourish and they're allocating resources as such.

Consumer Internet companies here are predominantly English language.

You might have heard of Fusion Garage - now associated with CrunchPad/TechCrunch.

It would be awesome if you or someone could make a similar version for New York City.

This is an interesting idea. Maybe it would solve pg's scaling concerns (not hardware & software but content & character) of HN to make regional sites covering NYC, Austin, Bay Area, London, etc. in addition to the top level 'global' one.

Make it a craigslist of startup/tech discussion and maybe even have the best local content percolate to a top-level/global page.

I think if you stayed on a local page you immediately get back to a vibe of the early days of HN simply because of the reduction in readers/commenters and realignment of interests (ie: the startup scene in Singapore).

One of the major issues here is that Hacker News hasn't been YC news for a long time. It's evolved on purpose to be something more than start-up focused.

Not that I don't like your idea, just that what you're asking for is a reduction of scope that I think pg has specifically not intended.

dont think sigint.sg was set up with what pg wanted in mind.

i would say that this is a great effort to start the discussion on region specific info relating to start ups which I think is what HN is not able to provide.

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