Did something change with login authentication using Twitter?
Starting with a clean browser session (incognito mode, Chrome), I then click bookmark for Stacker.news, and then I click the yellow Login button. I'm then prompted to select one of the four login methods. I click Login with Twitter, and then I am asked:
Authorize stacker news to access your account?
But I haven't logged in to Twitter yet. And the account I plan to log in to already has granted Twitter access to the accouhnt.
I can picture it being something with Twtitter where they want to force me everyone to re-authorize, perhaps. But I wanted to report this here -- maybe it is an issue on SN's end.
I was expecting a bidding war between those trying to support either of those, and griefers who do things like kick your newly built sand castle for no reason.
Someone with a budget of a few hundred sats could do some real damage to that!
I’ve been having the urge to build on lightning. I don’t know what yet, but I at least want to be able to explore.
What learning resources would you recommend?
Context: Coder for ~20 years, then went full-focus into leadership around 7 years ago. So not a n00b dev, just new to programming for bitcoin/lightning.
Mastering {Bitcoin,Lightning} are good but dense. They can feel a lot like encyclopedias.
If you're anything like me, just build something. This is exactly how SN started. "I want to build something on Bitcoin. Oh, Lightning seems like an unlock, what can be done? Oh, Sphinx Chat and @paul are really onto something. Man, I've been wanting a Hacker News for Bitcoin for years now; it'd basically be like a bit devs online. Here we go..."
I love the fact that I can vote more than once on this site. People on reddit are always saying "I wish I had more up-votes", and now we have an actual example of how/why that's a good idea.
In other news, I've heard people say "vote with your wallet" when describing commercial things they are for/against. Here we have a very literal example of that. I've said it before, and I'll say it again; this place is going to be huge.
Upvoting people more than once is a great feature. I also like that you can upvote old posts. If I find a post valuable, I should be able to tip no matter how old the post is.
I find it useful to think about the upvoting with sats not as "tipping" but rather as "rewarding" the value you received.
Adam Curry is talking about this in his value4value podcasts... it's subtle, but important distinction. If we start thinking about this as giving back the value we received, then I think authors are going to have much higher rewards and the system becomes healthier.
Are you using the "Add to Home screen" feature in your browser?
I agree that the app works quite well already and could use just a bit of UX fixes, like making the switch between home, "recent" and "notifications" accessible on the bottom - so it's easier to reach with a thumb...
My suggestion is to simply have that URL (when the URL has no q= parameter) respond with a page that has only search field (in addition to header and footer, of course.
I didn't want to add it as a request Issue on the SN Github repo without checking for feedback, here.
It doesn't push content up in the algo. crytocoin and they accounts they run are the main accounts that do that. Looks like they already answered why they do it.
Until recently, only one reply per user per level was permitted. That was recently changed to where a second, third, etc., reply can be made but the cost for each increases an order of magnitude each time. So that's one reason you will see people reply to their own comment.
My aim when sharing content from a post is to add value (e.g., a cliff's notes of the article, a timeline from a podcast, links to Mastodon, etc.). Unfortunately, this content added can be verbose. A reply that is 30 lines long is like a wall of text -- the brain sees that and says, I'm not reading all that, I'll just scroll down. Whereas when there are short sections, a person is more likely to read the first (shorter) section.
This also lets a comment reply to my comment (from another user) be located just under the content being commented rather than below a long section.
So that's the intent -- to put the part with the most value to the reader in the first reply, then if there is more, put that in a second reply, and if needed a third and, possibly a fourth reply as well. By the way, it takes just one click to collapse a reply, which hides that reply and everything underneath it. And SN will remember that so if you come back to a post later, that reply will remain collapsed.
There's also another reason a person will reply to themselves, and that is because after the 10 minute edit window has passed, a reply is the only way to add a further thought, or to make a correction, or add an update, etc.
I think what @cryptocoin (and accounts) are doing can be valuable, but I'd prefer that to be a separate experience from comments.
E.g. there could be a new tab under each post called "Context" and folks could provide context links and notes there. So if I'm actually interested in context, I could easily find it (and in that case I would also pay sats to @cryptocoin for the value provided...). WDYT?
It could even show up as a "context" box to the right of the post itself, to make it easily accessible and yet allow to have standalone comments experience.
I'm not sure. Every feature kludges up with UX. 5 context replies kludge up the UX too though. For us OG's adding more features makes sense because we already "get it" but I worry if all the doodads scare new users away.
+1 to being careful here.
I think it's ok to have advanced experiences (we have jobs sub, which I would consider advanced/special experience), but those should not be on the "first-time user critical journey".
anyone know where to find rpi4's online or in store in canada currently? Both official reselling websites have been out of stock for a good while it seems.
Authorize stacker news to access your account?https://stacker.news/search?q=[my search criteria]