>> "I also don't see why there can't be an open directory of websites where the community makes decisions about what to add instead of leaving it to a single individual."
Because no one who wants one has made it. Why not be the change if it's something you want?
If your response is anything other than enthusiasm to get started, you understand why it hasn't happened.
There's always some friction between implicit assumptions of reader and writer. I assumed they were hand curated. I've never seen algorithmic selection produce the kind of variety I see on there.
>> Another problem is that I like to add a variety of sites so that people following what’s recently added don’t get swamped by loads of blogs on one topic. And last time the site got on HN the suggestions (not “submissions”) were swamped with mostly men with rarely-updated blogs about computers.
Essentially my trouble with every "share your blog" type thing that appears on HN. Some of the blogs do show some interest outside computers, but those posts are quickly swamped by more computer touching.
I appreciate the curation in favor of diversity of interest here.
edit: You can see it in a lot of the suggested alternatives elsewhere. I think it's hard for someone to really get it if computer touching is their life. Curation like this is vital to avoid regression to the mean.
Yeah, from a HN point of view I imagine most blogs are tech blogs. But for me, trying to curate a wider selection, tech blogs should be a very small minority. There are so many non-tech categories that I’m much more interested in populating, never mind categories that don’t even exist yet. A real joy is finding a niche topic where there are loads of current blogs, all linking to each other. Blogspot is full of that kind of thing.
Which specific use cases does this provide an alternative for? Chat is a tiny part of what people do with Discord and there are plenty of options already.
Try this in ChatGPT: "So ChatGPT is getting ads. The Google guys wrote _the_ paper explaining why ads in search are a bad idea, and Google set about demonstrating it. How can ChatGPT avoid the same fate with all the same incentives?"
"Correct" is doing a lot of work there. Dialects are a thing. I have never heard anyone pronounce it like whee-ah. They would get a lot of chuckles here where it's pronounced the same as where.
Whee-ah is a little emphasis away from sounding like a donkey.
It’s not a dialect thing, the river is literally called “River Wear” irrespective of your accent or dialect. Plymouth (Plih Muth) and Tynemouth (Tyne Mouth) are pronounced completely differently and I don’t call Plymouth “Ply Mouth” just because I live near Tynemouth.
This is probably a good representative take for the view of people who assigned value to the coding part of building software. It's worth reading and saving, if only as an artifact to study.
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