6 sats \ 1 boost \ 5 replies \ @nout 20 Aug 2021 \ on: [RFC] SN sat earning plans and ideas meta
As I'm always telling to my teams - don't go crazy, keep the baseline really intuitive and simple, hide all the smartness & tricks and only show it in the spots where the user really needs it.
Very good advice, thank you. I visit with your "refinement over features" comment from an earlier discussion before I work on anything now.
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Great to hear that the comment was useful.
One thing I was wondering is if you have thought about what are the first principles behind Stacker News? What would you like Stacker News to achieve? Do you have those written down?
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I do. It most succinctly amounts to creating a community online similar to what we find at Bitcoin meetups here in Austin - high bitcoin signal, low noise. That's my root goal but the means to that end are up in the air - I think embracing the participate to earn part should help if done right.
I'm working through Get Together right now to develop more clarity here.
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That sounds great! It makes sense to me and I would love to see this community thrive.
If you don't mind me poking for an answer a bit, from your principles and goal it still feels a bit as a means to an end. It may be worth digging deeper and asking "why?" Why should people be part of this community? Why would you want to build it? I think there's something there... it may take a while to find it though :)
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More great advice. I should probably spend a lot more time digging in here than I am currently. Those questions will be great instigators. I'll try to tackle this this week and do a write up/discussion on SN an ask for advice. Thanks @nout!
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