Show HN: I built Reddit but for research only

caterama|5 years ago

Neat! Any plans to join the Fediverse with ActivityPub? Recently showcased open source reddit clone https://dev.lemmy.ml/ seems to be heading in this direction. Reddit for research could be achieved by hosting a Lemmy instance. With reddit clones popping up left and right, I think the competitive advantage will shift to community and moderation quality rather than technical quality. It could be good to cooperate around a common federated solution allowing individual instances to specialize and focus on community and moderation while everyone benefits from new features and bug fixes. I'm not sure how many reddit clones I can check each day!

newman8r|5 years ago

Ah this is cool - I was just recently wondering if there were any new discussion boards that were mathjax enabled.

I'm also working on a discussion community... it's not so easy but the time seems right.

shuhari|5 years ago

Cool, what's the URL for your discussion community?

ecesena|5 years ago

If I can make a UI suggestion, I'd move the tags on the right and reduce the colors. I find it a bit difficult to skim through the titles if they're not all aligned to the left.

shuhari|5 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll try it out.

BossingAround|5 years ago

Interesting. Is the source code available? (asking just out of curiosity)

shuhari|5 years ago

Not right now, but we are planning to release it eventually!

jidiculous|5 years ago

What's the size of your userbase so far?

shuhari|5 years ago

Around 100 sign-ups at the moment, but most are inactive. We're starting to focus more on growing the userbase now. The chicken-and-egg problem is pretty rough!

I'd love to hear any feedback on what we can do to improve.

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