On Creating a Social Network

This seems to just kind of stop halfway through. "I took inspiration from things of the past: forums, shoutboxes, IRC and so on." Yes? How did you apply this inspiration? Where's the link to the results of this inspiration? What are the features you decided are crucial?

That&#x27;s a big part of the appeal of places like Hacker News and Tumblr- the focus on being a social network without adding in additional ad-delivery &quot;features.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t know if going full ascetic by removing images, reactions, etc. will achieve the same effect or not. Something like that would be very nice for smaller communities: IRC is still kicking, despite everything. Curious to see how the project goes, I&#x27;m unsure if the article cut off unexpectedly or if it&#x27;s just very early.

In case you didn&#x27;t spot it, at the bottom is a webring icon:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webring.xxiivv.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webring.xxiivv.com&#x2F;</a><p>It seems full of random&#x2F;creative&#x2F;inspiring sites - I now know how I&#x27;m going to waste my day today! ;)

I consider community control and privacy to be features. I think the author is talking about more technical features that are often in conflict with these. I like KISS in my social media and news media which of course is why I am here and in the fediverse.

I remember Sublevel[0] (aka Sub.cafe) which I believe was the original incarnation of the OP&#x27;s project.<p>The product has always stuck to the creator&#x27;s philosophy and has steadily acquired more polish. Companion iOS&#x2F;Android apps also exist for it I think?<p>I&#x27;ve always liked it, I thought it had died which made me sad but glad to see it&#x27;s still around.<p>Python back-end I think? Not sure if it&#x27;s entirely custom or Django app.<p>Would like to see it take off.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8111691" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8111691</a>

Will comment I think the hardest thing is getting users. I tried to make a dating site almost a decade ago, I learned a lot from it but I had to seed it with fake profiles and yeah, ultimately it went nowhere.<p>What is this &#x27;webring&#x27; thing on that site<p>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webring.xxiivv.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webring.xxiivv.com&#x2F;</a><p>Huh it looks like an old thing (wiki)

Seems like a correlation, not a causation. You get more features over time, maybe it&#x27;s the fact that quality just decreases over time.

Another important thing to consider is data privacy aspect and how to generate revenue.