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equaldex.com

49 pointsdanlev18 comments

Why not just use a subreddit?

LGBT News is part of a larger site -- Equaldex (http://equaldex.com) is a crowdsourced database of LGBT rights, showing every law related to the LGBT rights in each country and region.

I created LGBT News because there was a lack of other information outside of the actual laws in each country and region. When you visit Russia's page (http://equaldex.com/region/russia), you might assume that it's a little more LGBT-friendly than it is, but if you see some recent headlines about LGBT rights in Russia, it might give you a totally different impression.

When you submit news to LGBT News, you tag it with a country or region so that the news is then surfaced to that country's page.

You just posted your comment on HN.

That's great! I've been thinking of starting a similar project. What fork/ version of news/arc are you using, and could you provide some technical details about how the parent site is implemented?

Thanks so much!

The whole site (including LGBT News) is built from scratch, using PHP and MySQL. I came across a few turnkey Hacker News sites, but didn't really like any of them. I decided to build LGBT News from scratch just because I thought it'd be easier to integrate into the existing site, and I thought it'd be a fun project (I usually tend to do that for the learning experience).

Login uses Facebook Login (which has been a huge headache), countries and regions were implemented using an ISO database, and some of the additional data (population, religions, etc.) comes from Freebase.

Cool, wish you success.

Facebook login? Yuck.

Yeah, I did it just for the ease, then it turned out to be more work than it was worth.

Is this Safe For Work?

Yes, the things people post have been mostly related to LGBT rights.

Why might you think it woukdn't be?

Perhaps epochwolf has been to a pride parade and extrapolated.

Something like that. I'm a part of the furry fandom. This is the first site I've even seen were LGBT is not heavily associated with sex.

I didn't mean to offend.

I previously submitted equaldex.com and it got no traction (at least none that I could tell -- no upvotes, no comments). I submitted it in part because of the beautiful GIS work. I have a certificate in GIS and the maps for different subtopics are really beautiful pieces of work -- they are interesting, informative and have visual appeal. So while you are there, check out that piece as well, if you missed it before.

Wow, thanks so much! I appreciate it! When the site first launched in February, someone submitted it HN and it didn't receive any traction as well. :( Maybe someday!

Was this me‽

Yes. And isn't it funny that we've become BFFs through a Hacker News post?

So true. Hey, friend!

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