Personally, I've mostly abandoned reddit in favor of tildes. Reddit is an endless sea of content with incredibly varying degrees of quality. Tildes by contrast, has a high concentration of quality...
Personally, I've mostly abandoned reddit in favor of tildes. Reddit is an endless sea of content with incredibly varying degrees of quality. Tildes by contrast, has a high concentration of quality posts and an environment that fosters discussion.
I max out at a few short tildes breaks per day. When I was using reddit, it could consume virtually infinite amounts of time, and that's pretty detrimental to a procrastinator such as myself. I consider the relatively low quantity of content on tildes a feature, not a drawback. If I get through some other projects on my mind first, I want start contributing code to help preserve that sense of "limited high-quality content" even as the site grows.
We've talked about using RSS to pull content from other places before. I still think it's a bad idea to do it automatically, but I could see having a little bit of RSS reader functionality that's...
We've talked about using RSS to pull content from other places before. I still think it's a bad idea to do it automatically, but I could see having a little bit of RSS reader functionality that's used to make posting links easier. (Maybe it would be like the "new" feed from Hacker News, but nothing gets promoted to Tildes proper unless someone clicks on an item and uses it to create a topic.)
There's a question of how easy you want to make it; we don't want it so easy that people do it thoughtlessly.
I'd love to see features to help with curation and addition of interesting content, since I've relied on aggregators so long I don't really have any interesting sources of my own. ;) This kind of...
I'd love to see features to help with curation and addition of interesting content, since I've relied on aggregators so long I don't really have any interesting sources of my own. ;)
This kind of feature would need to be gated to facilitate discussion somehow. Perhaps add a .upcoming sub-group that won't bubble up until at least 1 person comments on it.
I see Tildes as more of an old-fashioned message board, and I love it for it. It's the difference between an arthouse cinema and a 24 screen multiplex.
I see Tildes as more of an old-fashioned message board, and I love it for it. It's the difference between an arthouse cinema and a 24 screen multiplex.
@tannercollin made https://news.t0.vc/ which does as read only.
Slightly strange seeing this very thread on it: https://news.t0.vc/JPTH/c
Is the source code for this available anywhere?
Yup, here: https://gogs.tannercollin.com/tanner/qotnews
Customize your subreddits in apiserver/feeds/reddit.py
Personally, I've mostly abandoned reddit in favor of tildes. Reddit is an endless sea of content with incredibly varying degrees of quality. Tildes by contrast, has a high concentration of quality posts and an environment that fosters discussion.
I max out at a few short tildes breaks per day. When I was using reddit, it could consume virtually infinite amounts of time, and that's pretty detrimental to a procrastinator such as myself. I consider the relatively low quantity of content on tildes a feature, not a drawback. If I get through some other projects on my mind first, I want start contributing code to help preserve that sense of "limited high-quality content" even as the site grows.
This.
We've talked about using RSS to pull content from other places before. I still think it's a bad idea to do it automatically, but I could see having a little bit of RSS reader functionality that's used to make posting links easier. (Maybe it would be like the "new" feed from Hacker News, but nothing gets promoted to Tildes proper unless someone clicks on an item and uses it to create a topic.)
There's a question of how easy you want to make it; we don't want it so easy that people do it thoughtlessly.
I'd love to see features to help with curation and addition of interesting content, since I've relied on aggregators so long I don't really have any interesting sources of my own. ;)
This kind of feature would need to be gated to facilitate discussion somehow. Perhaps add a .upcoming sub-group that won't bubble up until at least 1 person comments on it.
I see Tildes as more of an old-fashioned message board, and I love it for it. It's the difference between an arthouse cinema and a 24 screen multiplex.