We have finally finished integrating the lightning network, thanks to the Mash team, and would love some feedback folks. Check it out and let us know!
89 sats \ 4 replies \ @jarednxx 12 May 2022
:fire satoshi sentinel :)
Jared from Mash here and would love to hear the comments as well – anything and everything.
Lots we are aware of that will be improving in terms of interactions and such – but don't want to lead the witness more than that.
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12 sats \ 3 replies \ @kr 12 May 2022
When Mash sites offer freebies for first-time visitors, is it possible to eliminate the need for users to log in to Mash altogether?
What if the first pop-up said "this article is free. to see more, sign up for a wallet"?
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69 sats \ 1 reply \ @jarednxx 12 May 2022
We thought about this a lot, and this was our approach/options.
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A site could have content that is always free – free + premium sections (which can still have freebies post-login). This is the discretion of the site owner – something that we did on our mashingmonsters site (which makes fun of NFTs).
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Have premium freebies not require login as you mentioned... but that would require anonymous login/tracking (e.g., google solution), which notoriously doesn't work well and is beyond invasive privacy wise.
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The approach we took... one thing to keep in mind, is that if you are logged in on one site, next site you go to, you are already logged in, so the friction is somewhat removed (same device/space that is).
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We couldn't think of another compelling solution.
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2 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 12 May 2022
Ah I see, figured there would need to be some privacy trade-offs.
Point #3 will be a nice tailwind once lots of sites are integrated with Mash.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jarednxx 12 May 2022
For better text/description up-front.... 100% yes is something we should do!
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32 sats \ 0 replies \ @go 12 May 2022
For someone who's always looking for fresh news, it would be good to know what day each of the posts were made at least. Like there's one in the middle column about BTC dropping below 36k. Makes me wonder how fresh the rest of the content is.
That said, I like the idea. an easy aggregator that's smooth will be a winner
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32 sats \ 6 replies \ @mf 12 May 2022
I could be wrong, but charging for consumption if going to be an uphill battle to get traction. But as any cheap talk, take it for what it's worth.
Other than that, the only thing that jumps out immediately is the login with socials. If you really want to keep this for some reason, at least add lightning login.
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22 sats \ 1 reply \ @avg 12 May 2022
yeah, not gonna use that without ln-auth.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @jarednxx 12 May 2022
:(
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @bitcoingraffiti 12 May 2022
Agree!
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @jarednxx 12 May 2022
@mf
what drives you to consume/contribute on stacker news that would be different?
Agreed – LN login is something that we are looking at.
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @mf 12 May 2022
Consumption is free, posting is not.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jarednxx 12 May 2022
Got it. Must have been thinking "fast" aka not thinking in my initial post.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @2bithits 13 May 2022
Mmmm
Didn't get my 1 sat
All good though
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