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Should Stacker.News be more media focused?

37 sats \ 10 comments \ @SatoshiWasRight 19 Aug 2023 bitcoin

I really love this website and platform but from the homepage it reminds me of the old message boards. I love the conversations and the posts, but sometimes I just want to mindlessly scroll until something really catches my eye.

Any thoughts?

Great job to the devs! I love supporting each other with Sats

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23 sats \ 0 replies \ @mallardshead 19 Aug 2023

Its UI design pattern is based on Hacker News, but it's far better and engaging. Pretty impressive incremental improvements so far. SN has only existed in a bear market, and prior to the walls going up around centralized mainstream platform majors. Patience. Lots of potential.

10 sats \ 6 replies \ @premitive1 19 Aug 2023

have you tried instagram or snapchat or tiktok?

13 sats \ 5 replies \ @SatoshiWasRight OP 19 Aug 2023

C’mon, you know what I mean. Obviously I mean something a little bit more like Twitter/X but with this reward system.

It’s so hard to find something worthwhile from a title with no extra context (from the homepage)

There’s gold in here, but you have to go through a lot of nothing to get to it.

23 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 19 Aug 2023

Curious. My experience is the exact opposite... I find the old school message board style provides much higher signal to noise ratio than the modern embedded media approach.

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatoshiWasRight OP 19 Aug 2023

I do get that, but I also think this website is highly concentrated with like-mind individuals, and that’s the real reason you (we) feel this way.

11 sats \ 2 replies \ @premitive1 19 Aug 2023

seems like a great use case for nostr

13 sats \ 1 reply \ @SatoshiWasRight OP 19 Aug 2023

You’re probably right, but at the moment I prefer SN to Nostr

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @premitive1 19 Aug 2023

I don't touch Nostr yet, but I think you're more likely to get such a drastically different UI from a new project than waiting for an extent project to drastically change their focus.

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 19 Aug 2023

Are you advocating for link spamming 😜? I'm sure we discussed something like this the other day.

So a couple of points, do you feel that a user posting a news link to an article they didn't write and then get zaps (generate money) off of it (someone else's work) is good for the community?

Hands up guilty of posting links, but the distinction I want to make is about engagement. Posting a link and then discussing it with people is organic engagement. Link spamming to farm sats is just a little boring in my opinion.

I wonder if the Devs (@k00b et al) would be open to removing zaps on link posts? Not the comments on the posts, but if the post catagory is link rather than discussion, the post won't be eligible to receive zaps (users comments on that post would still be eligible). Could stop link spamming and zap farming off other people's work, especially as @premitive1 mentioned the other day, lots of posts are just links where nobody answers any comment below it.

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @AllCatsAreEvil 19 Aug 2023

've just rediscovered the joy of long form forum posts and I'm liking the economic model being tried here. If I want mindless scrolling I nip back to Amethyst on Nostr and scroll to my heart's content. This seems like a better place for more thought through discussion.