I had an idea for a minimal change to improve a Reddit-like site, perhaps you will find it interesting: split the concept of "subreddit" into "tags" and "communities".<p>Tags: much of the content of Reddit is people reposting the same thing at various times to various subreddits, and many of the comments are people noticing that it fits into "r/whatever" instead. The default behavior should be that posts of the same link to various tags (r/awww, r/catsstandingup) should not recreate a new post but just backlink to the same post. Repeat posts to the same tag should be a no-operation. This removes the community aspect of tags, and some of the worst emergent behaviors of reddit along with it. Treating a tag as both a topic and a community leads to a neverending cycle of people creating niche topic tags for the community aspect, but then finding themselves "invaded" as people will always want to find and comment on content about topics that they disagree with.<p>But of course the community aspect of Reddit leads to good things. So you make a separate concept of communities. These communities could follow the posts of one or more tags, applying filters to those of their own choosing, and make their discussion visible within community borders only or visible to all, based on their own choices (in addition to internal community posts.) They can control admission to the communities on their own rules (fully public, invite codes only, etc.) The ability to automatically follow the posts of certain tags (and either view or not view public comments) will keep small communities from getting stale for lack of posts.
How will you avoid-<p>> John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory was proposed in the Penny Arcade (web comic) on March 19, 2004 by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. It says that when a normal person is allowed anonymity and an audience, they lose social inhibitions and act inappropriately.<p>If anything, the last decade has taught us the immutability of this law. Usernames and comment history seem to help somewhat with people acting accountable for their actions. Total anonymity seems to always lead to a cesspool like 4chan.
Good luck with moderating this thing. Everyone bitches and moans about Reddit, but the fact of the matter is that sites like Reddit cost a ton to keep up and running and without some sort of revenue, they go down. Without some sort of regulation, sites QUICKLY divulge into a collection of scrupulous and illegal activities, and become blacklisted from advertisers.<p>I get how everyone wants a community that they can posts and share things anonymously, but the fact of the matter is that unless you have unlimited money where you can fight legal battles and absorb the cost of running it yourself, at some point you are going to need outside resources to keep the thing online and that comes in forms of donations or advertising.
I think this "reddit-with-4chan-features" approach is more viable than 8chan's "4chan-with-reddit-features" approach, since I don't think the imageboard model is very compatible with the "community-run boards" feature. It's also a good thing that (it appears that) this website is "fresh" and apolitical rather than coming forth from a political rift in another community (e.g. 8chan, gab, voat).<p>I'll definitely be following this website with interest; I'm a huge fan of sites that allow anonymous posting as well as how Reddit can create active communities around very niche topics (which is a lot harder on e.g. 4chan).<p>EDIT: I do have some problems with this rule: "Nothing that violates US law, or anything that would be considered 'gray area'." What is a 'gray area' is, itself, a gray area. I don't think the rule itself needs changing, but it would be good if it was supported by some examples of things that people might want to do but you won't allow.<p>EDIT2: Another issue: in a lot of fonts, Ieddit (with capital i) looks very similar to leddit (with lowercase L), which is a derogatory term for Reddit on 4chan (and possibly elsewhere) (owing to the shitty rageface memes which use the word "le")
For a site focused on transparency and privacy, it's parked behind CloudFlare. I can't view the site past the about page without JS enabled and allowing CloudFlare to probe and track me.<p>> Decentralized platforms are not an ideal solution for<p>> internet communities.<p>Hard disagree. Communities are about give and take, the early internet was driven by people hosting bulletin boards, IRC servers, web servers, etc. There are people out there still willing to be part of the solution if you give them the chance.<p>> TOR is also not an answer, the technical barrier in<p>> accessing hidden services alone disqualifies them as a<p>> practical alternative, before even considering the<p>> bandwidth/latency limitations.<p>TOR is plug-and-play these days, although using TOR effectively requires a change in mind-set, both for the server owners and users of such servers.<p>> As seen with youtube, reddit, &c. With transparency and<p>> accountability, and without a significant profit incentive<p>> to do otherwise, the model still works.<p>Servers, time and expertise usually cost money. Staff running the show need to put food on their tables one way or another - there will always be a financial incentive. Unless, of course, you reduce running costs to near zero.
yes hello site's creator here<p>there were a ton of technical issues earlier that are now 'mostly' fixed<p>in terms of the nsfw content, the index page is basically /r/all without nsfw. marking something as nsfw in a sfw sub hides the thumbnail.<p>this was posted here while i was sleeping... i went to bed thinking nobody had noticed my previous post and wasn't being attentive. the original post i made to Show Hn was 15 hours ago... I'm guessing a mod 'refreshed' this?
I like the idea of having a website like reddit, similar functionality without the bloat.<p>The new reddit design is horrible.<p>The design on the site could be a little closer to this site perhaps.
I actually think these are compelling features:<p>* Fully Transparent Mod/Admin Action Logs <- This is evidenced by the fact that on reddit mod drama sparks up every so often<p>* Anonymous Posting Option <- The fact that people make throwaways indicates that they desire anonymity sometimes<p>My next question though is what stops reddit from implementing them?
I like the idea of anonymous posting and at the same time on Reddit I've found challenges with brand new accounts with agendas showing up en mass with little regard for the local community and just wanting to push their agenda.<p>It's a rough thing to allow anonymous comments and also foster a community online.
Nice work! I really like the UI and the concept.<p>I got excited by your post because I'm building a reddit-clone too.<p>It's called Dinomia and it's a just-for-fun concept with a transaction system.<p>Each time you upvote something an "upvote / credit" is transferred from you to the author of the post, like sending money.
When you create a post/comment/community you loose X "upvote/credits" etc.<p>I hope Ieddit has great success and congratulations again for the work you have done.
Looking at the code base, it doesn't look like there's any CSRF protection in place. Not sure what other security issues there are but I'd be careful about using this. You probably want some tests in there as well. Overall looks like a promising project but you might have rushed to get something in front of people when a bit more polish would have made a better first impression.
Almost every single action signs me out. Creating a sub gives back an 'invalid' error message', which then signs me out.<p>Have clicked on less than 10 links and have already been exposed to bestiality images. This post in question has been up for half an hour, where is the moderation?
How do you avoid becoming like other Rediit clones like Notabug <a href="http://notabug.io/" rel="nofollow">http://notabug.io/</a> where you get toxic posts and comments? You give people anonymous access and they show their dark sides.
Looks like this is getting a lot of HN hug of death.<p>Let the username landgrab begin. Apparently they are called SubEddits instead of Subreddits? Not much in the way of r/android or similar but time will tell if this lasts or vanishes. Seems nice enough so far.
Why not use an existing (well-tested) code base like Postmill <a href="https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill</a> ?
How are you going to prevent your reddit clone website being overrun with lowest-common-denominator content? i.e. how you will maintain quality long-term, after the initial rush of novelty wears off.
I’m getting the error:<p>> Too Many Requests: 60 per 1 minute<p>I visited the site twice...<p>It looks interesting, but I am curious what are the implications. I.e. how does everyone’s interactions change.<p>Also seems kinda weird I have to login to be honest...
There's something weird when I create a post. When I search existing subs, (for example programming) it doesn't seem to work.<p>Am I doing something wrong or is it a bug?
Patreon’s URL for reporting community guidelines violations is here:<p><a href="https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/requests/new" rel="nofollow">https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/requests/new</a><p>Those guidelines are here for anyone who is curious:<p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/policy/guidelines" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/policy/guidelines</a>
The name is very similar to lemmy with this font. Lemmy being the federated alternative to Reddit/HN: <a href="https://dev.lemmy.ml" rel="nofollow">https://dev.lemmy.ml</a>
Now if only Ieddit, Tildes, Lobsters, Hacker News, Voat, and NotABug would all federate with each other like Lemmy[1] and Prismo[2].<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy</a>
[2]: <a href="https://gitlab.com/prismosuite/prismo" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.com/prismosuite/prismo</a>
I haven't used Reddit in a very long time, but does it not allow anonymous posts and comments any more? My account, at least, isn't tied to my real name or identity in any way, IIRC.<p>Anyway, I'm not sure anonymity is a great feature. The lack of accountability is a good part of the reason why Reddit became such a cesspool.