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Comment by cconcepts | Hacker News Reader

As someone living in India, I have considered how to set up a discussion board (like HN) that would be easy to use for users but also easy to be moderated of junk (like HN is) but still be effectively anonymous.

It would allow discussion on such topics without fear of reprisal.

With my lack of coding skills would this even be possible?

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wow... was already on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4838206

The primary challenge in creating a successful community like Hacker News is generally not the software (there is lots of free software for running forums), but in actually gathering and cultivating the community of people.

> With my lack of coding skills would this even be possible?

NO! (it is only possible WITH the required skills!)

My original was a poorly structured question - I should have asked if there was a specifically "anonomisable" discussion platform - something along the lines of phpBB. Something that could be setup to discuss free speech issues in restricted countries while keeping the contributors safe....? Would something like phpBB be safe for this kind of thing?

Should I be concerned that my https with https://news.ycombinator.com started wigging out after I posted the original question? Chrome wouldn't load it due to safety concerns

Yes, that does sound concerning, though it doesn't necessarily mean anything in particular. If you do get an invalid cert for HN again, please consider posting the fingerprint and CA, etc.

Have never experienced that before, continued for about 5 minutes after I posted and occurred almost instantly after I posted the question (I tried to make an immediate edit and chrome blocked it because of the https issues).

Do you use any certificate-related extensions? If not, you may want to install one that compares certs to those seen by others, just to see if anything interesting occurs. Also, check for any unexpected trusted CAs. I've seen a system infected by malware that adds a CA that was signed by a leaked Microsoft key.

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