2 sats \ 5 replies \ @cointastical 16 Jan 2022 \ on: Daily discussion thread
What's the aim for Stacker.News as far as the spectrum of content?
I'm not a regular on HackerNews.com (other than occassionally clicking on a link that leads to from Twitter or something like that) but it doesn't seem to have tags or categories -- so all new posts show up in a general interest bucke. Because of their tech user base, it's mostly tech posts that make it to the HN front page(s).
But with Stacker.News being open source, doesn't that make it so that a topic-specific website could be created?
Or maybe a categories feature (or tagging) with SN would give that capability, without leaving SN? I'm thinking like how Reddit has channels, even though the Reddit home page takes the top posts regardless of which channel they are from.
Anything like that coming with SN?
We plan to do the category thing like Reddit. Users seem to be posting more general news lately. I definitely still want Bitcoin focused news but we need to give users ways to post off topic content
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If you plan to have subreddit style categories you could auction them off almost like domain names, where users could buy their own stacker sections with lightning. could even make it recurring requiring a set number of sats per month, or year, or whatever.
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That might be what we do actually. Kind of like how stackexchange requires votes, we’d require recurring sats. Largest contributors would maybe become the mods
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Honestly thought it was just supposed to be about Bitcoin. Would probably not go here for random subreddit style discussions 🤷♂️
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I agree. For now the focus is the value
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