I recently left (or rather, was semi-forced out from) reddit. Hackernews does not have crazy moderators or at the least not as many; there is more free-form discussion, which is great.
Still, a few things I like. I used old.reddit.com, but even that seems to be a bit better than the default UI on hacker news. I don't mind the UI, but I found old.reddit.com easier and faster to use (the new reddit UI is just garbage though). It would be nice if hackernews could add more features that are SIMPLE and also simple improves to the layout - again, just very small and careful changes; people dislike any change to their workflows, so hackernews should make these conservatively and only little; and perhaps with a limit per year or every 5 years or so.
Content-wise I have no huge issue, although I'd like more grouping, as some news are interesting, others not so much (to me). Reading just the title is often not enough; some good articles have horrible titles and vice versa.
I have a clone of the old school Reddit up and running. I’m not quite sure where to take it - on one hand I don’t want to open it to a wide audience because I don’t want the burden of moderation, on the other hand Reddit gets increasingly problematic on so many levels and I miss losing out on legitimately good online spaces for some of my hobbies & interests.
I've thought long and hard about how a new comer could get around the issues but never came up with anything rock solid. SMS / Email is maximum sign up resistance but could help. Also being able to browse before making an account is key for new users but then you're open to bots.
I think having a handful of trusted moderators to have a higher level access to nuke posts, or see notices for posts with a high downvote:upvote ratio so they can nuke as an option...
Aside from that, the voting system X uses for community notes is pretty neat and something similar could work as well.
I've spent a bit of time on this as well... wanting to spin up a modern BBS and thinking maybe just a TUI over SSH might be enough to get something interesting without opening up to the heavy spam bots.
I don't know. You've been kinda known as a troll in /r/programming. First you were shevegen, then shevy-ruby and then shevy-java. The mods there are really, really hands-off, so it took them a loooong time to ban you (I presume they did?), which lead you to ban evasion and creating dupe accounts. Not a feel-good story.
I was forced out of Reddit by IP-number. I changed the MAC-number and that changed IP-number. Worked
for a while, and then they banned half of the city. Which was funny and gained some notoriety at that time.
Just FYI, those "number" things you mention are called "addresses" - IP address, MAC address... I don't know if your use of "number" is an affectation or intentional, but in a crowd of IT geeks it makes you look unsophisticated, so to speak.
Still, a few things I like. I used old.reddit.com, but even that seems to be a bit better than the default UI on hacker news. I don't mind the UI, but I found old.reddit.com easier and faster to use (the new reddit UI is just garbage though). It would be nice if hackernews could add more features that are SIMPLE and also simple improves to the layout - again, just very small and careful changes; people dislike any change to their workflows, so hackernews should make these conservatively and only little; and perhaps with a limit per year or every 5 years or so.
Content-wise I have no huge issue, although I'd like more grouping, as some news are interesting, others not so much (to me). Reading just the title is often not enough; some good articles have horrible titles and vice versa.