Read stacker news zine issue #0 - you might be in it! \ stacker news ~meta

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It features top stories and comments, Meme Monday, Art and other stuff that I like.

It all started when k00b wrote me, saying, I was inspired by the death of this guy: #911349

I’d love getting a weekly pleb-fashioned (cheap) bitcoin zine in the mail. If I had more hours, I’d make a physical version of our newsletter

I'm the pleb that does art and has time, so we quickly noticed it could be a good job for me.

I love stacker news. I’m excited to contribute and make something to share with everyone.

Is this zine pleb-fashioned? You betcha. Read more about how I think about making art and being pleb - Pleb Crafts

So do you want to see your posts in print?

Tell us what you think a stacker news zine could include and we'll consider it. More info coming about available prints - there will be but a scarce few.

And tell me how you like issue #0! @Scoresby @jasonb @justin_shocknet @Jon_Hodl @PictureRoom - It should be especially interesting to you!

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3 replies \ @plebpoet OP 21 Mar

60 sats \ 0 replies \ @rottenwheel 21 Mar

Amazing. Just that. I run a weekly newsletter as well, would love to one day print some like these for mine. Cheers!

60 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 21 Mar

Design is sooo good. Nailed it!

60 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 21 Mar

🔥🔥🔥🔥

778 sats \ 2 replies \ @cryotosensei 21 Mar

I love your goal-oriented nature haha

I very much enjoyed the read. Usually I would skip these techy posts, but somehow the vintage/looking font n cute illustrations hooked me in, and I scanned through them. 👍

I would love if we could have a Letters to Editor column. Like the first few pages of a Reader’s Dogest copy. People write in to expound on their thoughts on a particular article

24 sats \ 1 reply \ @plebpoet OP 21 Mar

Aw amazing and I love this idea! thanks sensei!

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 21 Mar

More power to you!

1194 sats \ 1 reply \ @Design_r 22 Mar

Today I printed it out! But first I had to go and make some changes in the shared PDF:

Add page numbers
Adjust colors and add printing marks from https://www.presspdf.com/check_view.php
Split PDF pages down the middle to single page layout, A4 to double A5 using https://www.sejda.com/split-pdf-down-the-middle
Reassemble the PDF to be printed as booklet at https://bookletfree.com/

Pretty cool results! @plebpoet would be possible to have the PDF as booklet next time?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet OP 23 Mar

awesome!!! yes that will be available, in fact it is now at my github

227 sats \ 0 replies \ @Design_r 21 Mar

Such great initiative! Well done 💪 why publish it on GH? There are many zine platforms and other places that also allow print-on-demand. It would be a great promo for @SN. One of the most known is blurb.com, just upload the PDF and sell copies on demand, here and example. No cost for the publisher, just free advertising!

Some feedback from a ~Design perspective:

The font could be unified aligned with SN Brand Marketing Guide #786223 for example:
- Font: any web standard sans-serif like Segoe UI, Helvetica Neue, Noto Sans, Liberation Sans, or in the worst case Arial.
Instead of using different fonts for H1, meta and text, I'd use different colors and fonts-size
Also colors could be aligned to mime the web experience:
- light: #f0f0f0 translated to CMYK for print is (0%, 0%, 0%, 5.88%)
- dark: #121214 is (10%, 10%, 0%, 92.16%)
I'm also personally missing the SN yellow here and there!

I like the fact that you shared the PDF, anyone could easily print it at home eve with a B&W laser printer on A4/Letter paper format. Is the original format of the closed zine A5 (half Letter)?

If you could share the source file on Figma or PenPot I'd love to contribute!

333 sats \ 2 replies \ @OneOneSeven 21 Mar

"AND THEN, THERE WERE ZAPS"

Is what that cover makes me think.

This is awesome. Maybe photography section for the all the SN photographers we have.

44 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 23 Mar

AND THEN, THERE WERE ZAPS

This is a really cool way to look at the explosion, thank you for sharing

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OneOneSeven 23 Mar

Quel spectacle!

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @PictureRoom 22 Mar

Yoooo this is sick. I'd love to contribute some how??!

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 22 Mar

Very cool idea. I haven’t read it yet cause I can’t seem to figure out how to view pdfs on mobile but I will later.

You ought to check out screenbreak to put this kind of stuff into print for sale.

133 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 21 Mar

As a SN maxi I will buy a print copy

51 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined 21 Mar

This is such a great idea! I'm eager to throw sats at you for doing this.

What's best about Stacker News isn't the high quality posts, it's the high quality discussions. If you could curate and edit a selection of the best discussions during the week, including the post they're based around, that would be incredible.

231 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 21 Mar

We are just kind of winging it with what content to put in it. Maybe we could add the post with the most comments every week too.

201 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 21 Mar

That'll just be me and @grayruby talking about random sports stuff.

I think that selection will require some serious editorial discretion, but if you can distill the most interesting comments into something that reads like a coherent conversation, it would be very valuable for people who don't have the time to sort through some of the large discussion threads.

Basically, I'm thinking of a more refined and polished version of how you discuss posts on SNL, using the text of the posts and comments as much as possible.

132 sats \ 3 replies \ @elvismercury 21 Mar

I love this idea - an interesting take on the unsolved problem of making discussions in general the unit of concern, vs posts. Curating it in an independent medium could inspire.

27 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 21 Mar

I'm glad you can see the vision. It wouldn't just be sharing Stacker News content in print. It could really enhance what was created here.

40 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 21 Mar

You could even get more meta - themes vs posts / comments. How do different things relate to each other and form some larger movement?

Think Lapham's Quarterly.

So many cool directions it could go in. How else could one/offline support each other? I love seeing this kind of creativity unfold.

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95 sats \ 5 replies \ @SimpleStacker 21 Mar

This is so cool!!

If you have physical copies available I'd love to purchase one.

I think if a digital version of the same idea... a highly productionized presentation of weekly top posts, memes, etc -- could be made into a webpage, that would also really help with Stacker News' overall reach.

One feedback, I'd really love it if SN's yellow color theme could show through a bit more in the final product!

1123 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 21 Mar

If you have physical copies available I'd love to purchase one.

We plan to produce and ship one every week. We are still trying to figure out how much it'll cost to print them.

I think if a digital version of the same idea... a highly productionized presentation of weekly top posts, memes, etc -- could be made into a webpage, that would also really help with Stacker News' overall reach.

Yep, definitely planned.

One feedback, I'd really love it if SN's yellow color theme could show through a bit more in the final product!

I think pleb poet is planning to print these on yellow paper.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 21 Mar

Phone book yellow pages paper?

96 sats \ 1 reply \ @plebpoet OP 21 Mar

more striking than that, hopefully this was an early idea

85 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 21 Mar

I think I'd prefer something a little less striking haha

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @PictureRoom 22 Mar

Not too sure about donig a digital version. I think the whole allure about doing this is to have something tangabile. I've never been a fan of online books, personally.

85 sats \ 1 reply \ @unschooled 21 Mar

Nice work pleb poet. Love the aesthetic design.

Tell us what you think a stacker news zine could include and we'll consider it.

Agora classifieds section?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 21 Mar

Nice!

65 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 21 Mar

Fantastic work! Are you going to set up subscriptions?

600 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 21 Mar

Yes, I think we'll use Zaprite.

We are waiting on print cost estimates, but I suspect we'll be able to do $3 for a single issue (with free shipping) and maybe $10/mo to get all 4 issues every month.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 21 Mar

Ahh cool

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coinsreporter 21 Mar

Free shipping to US only I guess?

If that's true, can we locally publish it to distribute around?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 21 Mar

Free shipping to US only I guess?

Maybe idk yet.

If that's true, can we locally publish it to distribute around?

Yep!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 21 Mar

Great idea

124 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark 21 Mar

Wow, you clearly put a lot of work into it. I just glanced over it quickly because I don't have time to read it at the moment. It looks incredible.

Tomorrow I start a 30 hour road trip spanning 4 days following a flight home, so I bookmarked this. It will be a nice treat for me especially because I'm going to have a lot of downtime.

Well done.

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei 21 Mar

Drive safe

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 21 Mar

Thanks! It shouldn't be a problem, I'm a professional after all. 😁

60 sats \ 1 reply \ @IamSINGLE 22 Mar

Excellent work plebpoet! 👏👏 I love it. Just one thing more I wanted to see there. Why not add a bit of info about territories or more posts with just headings what people can read online?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet OP 23 Mar

I think that's a good thought, for sure and would love to get territory founders involved. Question for you, do you think it would be cool to have qr codes throughout that took you to posts?

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @User21000000 21 Mar

Great work and look forward to seeing more

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coinsreporter 21 Mar

This is mind blowing. I had thoughts of printing a few posts and distributing them to a few. But now this is much much better. Tell me if the printed copy is free shipping to India or can I get the print without objections?