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I'm really impressed of what the team has achieved. I worked with Erik back in 2006-2007 and he's a very smart guy. Back then the team working on "active safety" was quite small, and the company (under Ford) was not given a lot of R&D budget, so I did not expect them reaching this point within 10 years. But many things have happened since.

Release notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes

Agree it doesn't render well in Chrome for example. In elinks and firefox under Linux it looks fine for me though.

Looks like it was submitted 2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11477365 , so maybe it was done to avoid the dupe detection.

Missed that, thanks for sharing! For others, the URL of msoad's post is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11402321

The next major Python version will be Python 8 https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-March/1436...

Thanks for the suggestion! Will reach out to jcs. Reddit may not be optimal though I feel.

I'm by no means a UI expert nor an English native speaker so I'm not sure if you're sarcastic. Would you mind elaborating on the feedback?

Thanks! Yes it's actually supposed to work with cookies, but I haven't tested this properly. Will probably follow your advice and hide it for non-logged in users until I'm sure it's working correctly.

OK noted. It was also highlighted by others, will address this (tomorrow).

The base site is based on lobste.rs and the automatic news collection is just email subscriptions to a bunch of open source projects announcement mailing lists.

I may need to extend it to poll websites or github for release notes in the future, as some (still relevant) projects do not have mailing lists.

Good suggestion! I'm thinking I can create a tag specifically for automated submissions. I'll look into this tomorrow.

Yes, it's all valid feedback. I kind of felt a gap for a timely updated and focused news source focused on "open source". At this point I don't plan to shift to an existing news aggregator, but if you don't mind sharing - do you have any in mind that would allow such filtering?

Thanks! I hadn't thought about having an IRC channel. I'm trying to keep up with the invitations. Didn't honestly expect that much interest. :)

I hope the website is still usable (I'm monitoring 'top' here and ruby/nginx is still constantly below 25%).

I'll probably not be setting up an IRC channel today/tonight as it's pretty late where I am, but may consider it in the future.

Much valid points and interesting view. I did think about a few of these aspects - in particular community fostering and whether to focus on a specific project or area. It was all becoming a pretty complex problem to figure out, so I decided to just put it out there and see what happens - and make changes and iterate as needed.

In essence I created the website because I wanted a HN focused on open source news, sharing, discussions.

I'll take some more time to digest all your feedback, it's late here (midnight), but I do value the comprehensive feedback a lot!

Thanks for the suggestion! Will definitely look into that!

Thanks for the feedback! It was the last item I was planning to address before "launching" the site, but I decided to put it off for another day. It'll soon be fixed.

Thanks, will review the color scheme again.. The name will be addressed.

Regarding the slowness, I hope it's a temporary thing - the HN effect - my 512MB droplet is struggling a bit at the moment.

I can't take any credit for that, as I forked lobste.rs implementation which already has that feature. But yes, I like the transparency too.

OK thanks for the suggestion - I've gone ahead and registered FOSSwatch.com. Will likely switch, but maybe not tonight.

If you don't mind sharing the error you encountered (screenshot?) feel free to drop me an email - address in my profile. I just got the SSL via Namecheap a few days back, I haven't had issues with them before, but I'm by no means an expert on certs, and may have set up something wrongly.

OSwatch is focused on open source news, or sharing of open source projects, while I believe lobste.rs targets broader topics/audience.

Implementation-wise OSwatch is very similar, being a fork of lobste.rs.

Thanks for the feedback! Will look into font size, and the name will be reconsidered as well.

Thanks for the feedback! It looks like the name was not optimally chosen based on the feedback in this thread, so I may need to address that. If the site or FB/twitter-feeds gains more regular users than myself I'll definitely look into it.

I guess you are referring to some submission titles containing [Project Name] and at the same time carrying a tag-"button"? The submission titles for automated submission are taken from the email subject, and kept to make twitter/facebook feeds have proper context. But I'll look into how I can clean it up - especially from the oswatch.net front page itself.

Thanks! Actually the implementation is based on https://lobste.rs code at https://github.com/jcs/lobsters but yes, the plan is to open source this fork quite soon.

Thanks for the constructive criticism, it's a good suggestion - I've been contemplating the same myself. I'll look into how I can obtain official original links (currently the information is fed via email).

Yes, I realize the name clash with http://oswatch.org/ and the fact that OSS is a more proper abbreviation of open source software. The name was picked based on the name "open source watch". May rename in the future if it makes sense, but it's just a small side project.

Thanks! To ensure timely updates I "cheated" and have subscriptions set up for a bunch of open source projects announcement lists, and auto-posting them to osnews.

Thanks for the feedback! Yes, I agree. Terminal, or console-based, player is a more correct description. Will update!