I've tried and failed that too. My conclusion is that they have enough voices on the site to keep it alive so they're not letting in any more people from outside that bubble on purpose.
Same here. Out of about 3 or 4 times I hung out on their IRC, only once I got anyone to respond to me. Had a pleasant chat to someone for a few minutes who then ended it with "Thanks for the chat but I'm not going to give you an invite" and logged off the channel.
I lost interest in lobste.rs at that point, realising that I was falling for the old "Make a club exclusive enough and people will beg to join it" trick.
Although there are some interesting aspects in how the site is run and moderated, compared to HN, at the end of the day, you won't see anything there that hasn't also appeared on here first.
This sounds rather strange and sad. I had assumed that their account creation method was motivated by avoidance of creation of spam accounts. If there are other more reasons they should probably mention it in their website. I hope someone from lobsters' moderation team sees this and I hope its not some "exclusive club" since I like some aspects of their website like tags, "what are you working on this weekend" thread etc.,
abricot|5 years ago
tardibear|5 years ago
Normille|5 years ago
I lost interest in lobste.rs at that point, realising that I was falling for the old "Make a club exclusive enough and people will beg to join it" trick.
Although there are some interesting aspects in how the site is run and moderated, compared to HN, at the end of the day, you won't see anything there that hasn't also appeared on here first.
pretty_dumm_guy|5 years ago
pkmishra|5 years ago