14 sats \ 0 replies \ @abetusk 1 Oct 2021 \ on: What are some competitive advantages Stacker.News has compared to other similar sites? bitcoin
- Focus on topics about Bitcoin (and Lightning) from a social, technical and maybe just a little mathematical perspective
- Provide a community of folks to talk about it with
- Uses Bitcoin(/Lightning) as a first class feature to incentivize "positive" participation, reduce spam and "eat our own dogfood"
- Minimal, intuitive interface that looks to be more focused on communicating quality content than on trying to leech money or attention from me
I haven't really found another site that hits the "HN but for Bitcoin" mark except for SN. It would be interesting to see a list of other competitors to SN (if any?) to see how they compare.
I'm also heavily biased towards the "clean" feel of news items presented like HN (and now SN). It feels uncluttered and lets me focus on the thing that's important. Reddit style sites have a large amount of cruft in terms of header banners, side menus and dropdowns. I just checked and on my browser at some nominal size, there are 3 "news" items on my Reddit home page that Reddit displays to me. On SN it's 18.
I do think the "killer feature" is the integration of Bitcoin/Lightning but without the interface, content and community, it would be the gas without an engine.