The step of just adding yourself to the userlist seems ill-conceived. Automatic merges are just going to overwrite the last person added unless manually merged. Can I propose this just use github for authentication, and only allow those on the contributors list (http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#list-contributors) to successfully log in?
It's amusing because I've seen so many people mad at HN's lack of features, and spend so much noise demanding pg add this or that, or creating bookmarklets to "fix" it, or even forking the entire site just to try to modify a part of its functionality. But when offered the chance to collaboratively control the whole thing, on github, now it's "meh? why would anyone want that".
It's almost as if there are different people demanding different things for varying reasons or something.
Nah, just like Reddit, HN is a hivemind, and we all want the same thing at the same time. Any contradiction is evidence of our hypocrisy, not of the disjointed nature of our composition.
People seem to be questioning the validity of having domain knowledge in node/heroku/mongodb and an approved pull request be a prerequisite for joining a site not obviously about node development, not to the idea of an open source site in and of itself. If people had to learn Arc and have a pull request approved just to join HN, there would be maybe two or three people here.
Unfortunately I'm not interested in working on this code for the sole purpose of posting comments on this website. I honestly don't have that kind of time.
Op here: yeah, exactly - that's part of the thinking. Or maybe the feature surface area will expand enough that there's always low hanging fruit somewhere. I'm not really sure.
I had never thought about using the git push/pull model for anything but code and data. Could git, tunneled over ssh, build the decentralized web that we're all bandying about?
OP here, we just tried to pick a language that the most people would know. I'm pretty bad at JavaScript, but I know enough to get things done so we went with that.
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I like this better also because you can update the list without restarting the server.
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[+] [-] diminoten|12 years ago|reply
Nah, just like Reddit, HN is a hivemind, and we all want the same thing at the same time. Any contradiction is evidence of our hypocrisy, not of the disjointed nature of our composition.
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[+] [-] Killswitch|12 years ago|reply
I don't have to waste my time adding features to HN to be a user here. I think I'll stay here.
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[+] [-] sehr|12 years ago|reply
But seriously, it's 2014. node.js is a thing, has been for a while.
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[+] [-] rschmitty|12 years ago|reply
No need for the negativity! I could easily say who the f* writes web apps in ___ and get much praise/hate.