Echo JS - JavaScript News

[pdx]

Things that annoy me on most forums are the clutter added by signatures, join date (which I always confuse with posting date), and the ubiquitous avatar.

I really enjoy that HN lacks these distractions, so the presence of the avatars at the posted site was a disappointment. Still, it was much better than most.

[lifeisstillgood]

I don't get it?

Part of the appeal of HN is I get interesting stuff from all over (#) not just my niche.

TO do an HN, but have it on one niche seems missing the point.

(#) less of it now, these kids today, back when I were a lad ... shoebox .. motorway.

[pmelendez]

Well you are right when you say that's part of the appeal of HN. The thing is, that's part of the appeal for a hacker. I bet that for a JS professional, part of the appeal of this site is to have restrict the news just to that domain.

At the end, the success or failure of these kind of web sites tend to be more related to the community rather than the look or the features.

[porker]

Please add yourself to the "Ask HN: like HN, for other disciplines/topics?" thread from yesterday - thanks!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5399879

[akakey]

what's with JavaScript community to make everything end in "js"? You don't see Ruby guys ending every one of their product names in "rb" or Python guys in "py".

[yen223]

The NumPy, Scrapy and SciPy folks may disagree :)

[bazzargh]

The java equivalent was '4j'. It's mildly useful on a mixed community like HN, you've got some idea before you click through what the target developer audience is.

[petercooper]

JavaScript is rather long. This can be an issue with domain names, event names, Twitter handles, etc. "Ruby" is a lot more succinct which is why we tend to use it as-is.

[pcote]

Same reason there are still plenty of Java projects out there that stick a "J" in the start of the name.

[d0vs]

Maybe to avoid name collisions?

[k__]

but the .net guise did such stuff

[shaneeb]

Apart from the fact that its JS only, how is it better than HN? Why not just use HN to follow topics you like (JS in this case)?

[pqdbr]

I think it's a simple matter of focus. One could extend your logic and say 'Why don't you get your tech news from NY Times instead of Hacker News, since they have a tech section in their website ?'

[fakeer]

I do not see OP mentioning "better" and neither on the website it's mentioned.

>>Why not just use HN to follow topics you like (JS in this case)?

It's a very subjective question. One answer can be why there's HN or why there's StackOverflow or why there's both.

It's actually good to have a dedicated JS forum, even if there are already many out there. Besides, on HN everything is posted - everything. People participating here are https://twitter.com/thejayfields/status/235074734163898368

[pcote]

The first thing this has me thinking is that it looks like a "subreddit" of HN. I'm surprised to not have seen or heard of a Reddit style site with HN voting rules on it.

[Kiro]

HN voting rules? I thought reddit used the exact same voting system as HN.

[duiker101]

It's all a little.... too large...

[dreen]

If you browse at 67% scale it looks exactly like HN

[rschmitty]

Too big a font and too much whitespace imo. Good you did not copy the 1. 2. 3. ... etc to the left of post titles tho :)

[vaidik]

+1 for the effort. But there is already a project like that which you could have used for this purpose if your purpose was not to build something like HN but build something like HN for only JS: https://github.com/SachaG/Telescope

This would have saved a lot of programming effort.

[resu_nimda]

There is a 'source code' link at the bottom that leads to https://github.com/antirez/lamernews, which looks mostly the same with a different stylesheet, so I think they did save that effort ;)

And FWIW, Telescope may preserve the functionality of HN, but I like the design a lot less (though the Echo design could use some work).

[imwhimsical]

The design in a little (more than a little, tbh) overwhelming. But that's cool for v.0.11.0

[sktrdie]

It's horrible: big fonts, 100% wide and awful spacing of elements. Gives me a headache just reading it. I like the topic though. Hope a designer can jump in and improve the overall experience.

[Semaphor]

I think it's mostly okay. I made the titles smaller and bold and gave the articles a slightly higher bottom margin locally and it's great :)

[davidw]

A thought: I think you're doing it wrong if you think of yourself as an "X" programmer. Because those X's will come and go over the years.

[resu_nimda]

But those X's do exist, if only temporarily. At any given time, you probably are an X programmer, and a community around X is useful to you. People may drop in and out, but it's still a (potentially) valuable resource.

[nkuttler]

There are barely any comments. Oh btw, I couldn't figure out how to add one anyway. If that requires registration... make it obvious.

[ericcholis]

I had to do a double take, I thought somebody had registered a domain using my first initial and last name (echolis).

Need coffee....

[Toshio]

No RSS feed?

[nekgrim]

Bottom of the page : http://www.echojs.com/rss