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holleron Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' manual examples?

That's an awesome/inspiring story, congrats & thanks for sharing. Was it all organic growth in the beginning? What took it from that early phase to the next step?

holleron X/Twitter has updated its terms of service to let it use posts for AI training

What about HN?

holleron Discord is not documentation

Yeah, that was the essence of how it became popular to begin with. It was the first time I'd ever seen an irc experience for the masses, thanks to browser tech improving.

I've always thought their video conferencing was better than Google, but eventually zoom just took over. Never tried voice and felt like that was just tacked on because it became trendy due to Clubhouse etc.

holleron Discord is not documentation

> the actual product itself is nothing special.

I wouldn't agree. Aside from Slack, Discord built the next highest quality browser-based chat and voice app, targeting consumers vs enterprise. It's well engineered, reliable, and has a simple user interface (mostly).

holleron Teddit Is Shutting Down

I wouldn't say it's a replacement, rather it's a new experience focused on what I believe is a shortcoming with current social media sites in that they aren't optimized for live discussion.

For instance you mention "debate the finer points of various aspect ratios". Current social networks are not very good for actual debate, in fact the genesis of Sqwok can be traced to a live debate in r/worldnews where I grew tired of refreshing the page. Many of the alternatives popping up for both Twitter & Reddit are cloning the underlying data model and user interface without offering much more.

Sqwok is different in that it couples some of the familiar aspects of existing social networking with high quality instant messaging, designed from the ground up for live public debate and discussion in a new format. Still has a long way to go but I believe there's a place for it.

> The issue with replacing Reddit is that you need millions of users to crowd-source all that information

Reddit didn't start out with subreddits or millions of people, it was just a fun place to read the news.

holleron Teddit Is Shutting Down

You're welcome on Sqwok (https://sqwok.im), it's chat based, in active dev

holleron FastAPI 0.100.0 release notes

Ok that makes sense! I'll check it out. I pretty much just use Starlette + Mangum + Marshmallow for basic api functionality.

holleron FastAPI 0.100.0 release notes

How does it compare to Starlette? (lib FastAPI uses under the hood) I've used vanilla Starlette for recent projects and it's been great.

holleron I'm a paid user of Threads[.com] – No trademark?

Yeah definitely, in recent one the stakeholder very adverse to future risk.

holleron I'm a paid user of Threads[.com] – No trademark?

Haha totally, they could use the help! What's the system of "three sided cards"?

holleron I'm a paid user of Threads[.com] – No trademark?

Not sure if they've upgraded but you used to not be able to permalink to a search result.

holleron I'm a paid user of Threads[.com] – No trademark?

I've worked on projects where we had to rebrand entirely due to a USPTO search coming up with much less similarities with an existing name.

holleron Threads Is Now Live

Also @zuck roasting Twitter:

> Anyone think this can become bigger than twitter!?

> It'll take some time, but I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it. Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn't nailed it. Hopefully we will.

https://www.threads.net/t/CuVZQsrJRcr

holleron Beyond Markdown (2018)

> Consider, for example *this* text*

Oh yes. I made the fun decision to write a markdown parser/contenteditable component for https://sqwok.im and ended up spending probably a month on it, largely writing endless unit tests and covering odd cases like that.

It's far from perfect and probably will still break on certain ambiguous inputs. I like his ideas for clarifying the language for the most general audience.

holleron Titanic tourist sub photos show wreckage being brought ashore

Really cool, had never heard of this before. I just watched the documentary on James Cameron and his Deepsea Challenger and was similarly impressed by the extraordinary lengths the team went to in engineering it. My takeaway was that OceanGate likely didn't have anywhere close to the same level of design and testing.

holleron Writing a chat application in Django 4.2 using async StreamingHttpResponse

yes they use websockets

holleron Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts

I was originally inspired by Reddit & Slack to build https://sqwok.im, where every post has a built-in chat room instead of threaded comments. The real driver was in talking about current events such as this one, where refreshing the page became burdensome.

holleron AWS us-east-1 down

I used it because early on in the project I wanted to use features for IoT that were only available on us-east-1 initially, as well as lambda@edge which was on us-east-1 only at the time.

holleron Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

hey sorry about that, I just checked and apparently for unknown reasons codepipeline just pushed a commit to prod that wasn't supposed to go out! site broken atm sigh, please check back in ~hour or so and apologies! working on a big change and unsure how it went through.

edit: apparently AWS us-east-1 is down which brought the site down! (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36315300)

holleron Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

Thank you! Appreciate it.

holleron Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

https://sqwok.im

- All posts fully public and google indexed.

- Built-in realtime chat rooms instead of threaded comments on all posts, complete with presence, @mentions, markdown support (check faq)(mobile & desktop web supported currently).

- Trending based on chat activity and time decay.

- Search, notifications, follows, themes, other settings like block a user.

- Focus on simplicity, accessibility, usability.

Previous Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31160302

I'd taken some time off the project over the past several months to focus on regular work/life but still planning to release new features and push the project forward, with an upgrade to chat/presence to be released imminently and long-form posts to follow.

Have been blessed to see people from all over the globe use this silly site I built because I wanted to use it myself.

If you find it interesting please let me know how we can improve it etc.

Also if you think you could bring something to this project and have interest feel free to reach out by email.

holleron Archive your Reddit data before it's too late

There already is a wikipedia social network created by Jimmy Wales himself.

https://wt.social

holleron Archive your Reddit data before it's too late

There have been and will continue to be numerous alternatives created all the time. The problem is creating a clone of X is rarely ever going to succeed, simply because cloning products doesn't create a compelling reason to leave the original (unless you have the resources/network effects of e.g. Meta). You can check r/redditalternatives for a constant stream of projects.

holleron Vision Pro’s Big Reveal

I admit that I thought the same thing about Apple Watch and it seems to be doing quite well these days.

holleron Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative

Agree tech isn't the problem per say, but "fell for" implies there wasn't a value proposition. The reason each successive platform became successful was because it did something better than it's predecessors and at the right time.

holleron Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps

There are dozens of Reddit clones, many have come and gone. In my eyes they don't work because they aren't novel or innovative. There's no reason to switch for the average user.

holleron US military has been observing ‘metallic orbs’ making extraordinary ‘maneuvers’

Just Trimaxion Drone ships, nothing to be alarmed about!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G13KzEJqBw

holleron California Assembly votes to pass the Journalism Preservation Act

Maybe that model no longer works? I don't recall an option to pay for an online account and not have ads, or pay for a print version without ads. Why not? My points is they were lazy (my experience) or simply just not innovative enough.

Times change, behavior changes, technology changes. I don't see how forcing the marketplace to subsidize a failing business model simply because "freedom of the press" is codified in the Constitution is a good idea.

Maybe the press needs a rethinking? Sites like Substack are showing that's the case.

Lastly, I do want to see local newsrooms survive and thrive, I'm just stating my experience in hindsight gave me a perspective where I'm not entirely sympathetic to ideas like the one core to this thread.

holleron California Assembly votes to pass the Journalism Preservation Act

It's hard to say of course, we don't have all the information, but I can tell you it was very resource intensive, and at the same time the core product (newspaper/website) was bloated and burdened with ads.

Honestly to me it felt like the historical newspaper model just simply stopped being as effective, and rather than face that reality, downsize, and innovate, these companies sold their souls to the devil (advertisers).

The online platforms did the same thing but found a way to be more effective.

holleron California Assembly votes to pass the Journalism Preservation Act

I'm against gov overreach and have serious doubts the government could even properly audit a paper to see whether those funds were used directly for journalism.