Crow Watch: A Hacker News Alternative
crow.watch- lots of hacker news alternatives out there
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44973208
One seems to be completely empty and the remaining two seem to just be ideas for pro-ai and anti-ai respectively?
those looks not very promising.
building a community is hard. but i'm dedicated to a building a small tech community anyway.
this is why i'm investing into building crow.watch.
> invite only
Unkindness of the Crow.
Not even my local, most elitist hackerspace requires an introduction and, apparently, ideally a dossier.
I'll pass.
The offline community does not have a problem with spammers/impersonators. For online communities this is much more difficult. I don't know what kind of struggle and filtering HN implemented to deal this it. But I do not want to build complicated anti-abuse systems. Right now registration is open, after certain size i will "restrict" registrations.
What’s so different about it besides the invite-only model?
The https://crow.watch is heavily inspired by lobster. basically same algorithm, same flagging, amd tag filtering. one key difference is [show] tag with dedicated "Show" page. A feature from HN, which lobster does not have. Invite-only where is only to prevent spam in the future. I will rephrase the login page. Will make it "open" and as we see spammers will close down.
Looks cool but it's another one of those exclusive invite-only communities.
I guess this is pretty much the point people don't like. I will redo the the registration.
what's the difference from lobste.rs?
I was a lobster user for 7y. but i find it now way to big, and moderation is strange sometimes. I think, having an additional community is nice. No need to concentrate everybody in one or two website. And there are multiple communities already! I thought I can build one with not such restrictive self-promo rules as on lobster.
your last point is actually a huge turn off for me.
this is why i think having different communities is a nice thing.
it's just that most of the self promotion going on over here is ai slop nowadays (oh you vibe coded an app? the whole "point" of it is that anyone can do it, so your vibecoded thing is completely uninteresting).
And you want more of that? Does not compute, for me
obviously not more of ai slop, but people still do cool project!