Hi! It allows users to boost posts/comments up in the ranking algorithm. It's distinguished from "sats" (aka upvotes) because "sats" go to the user. Boost allows users to rank their posts higher, but unlike sats, boost goes to the site. This is to prevent users from having upvote parties without paying for it. 

banana

Thanks! I'm thinking of doing a github flavored markdown WYSIWYG without controls. Have to look into it.

sha256

WeAreAllSatoshi

Auto feature request: bookmark lists. e.g. I want to compile an evergreen list of lightning liquidity resources. More or less like a pinboard on pinterest but for bitcoin related links/discussions.

k00b

You're right. The idea was to provide a gradual ramp to using lightning on the site but maybe it's not necessary.

I'd say remove the free posts/comments altogether.

qecez

Good question. The idea is to create a small challenge/hurdle/gate for participating. If you can pay a sat (atm ~1/3000 of a dollar) it more or less proves you're a real bitcoiner. You're less likely to post FUD or trader bro price stuff.  

If you post good content or comments, you'll likely net gain sats.

In the end it's a bit of a social/economic experiment. If people prefer to not have the 1 sat hurdle, I can remove it. I just suspect the mean would revert to reddit/twitter shitposting.

satoshisuncle

Sats you've earned (aka stacked in bitcoiner terms) on the site. You commented twice. I liked both comments. You have stacked 2 sats.

jason

They also got their magic link email marked as spam

Bug report: @pplanel on twitter said that after logging in via email he got navigated to the /login page and got a 500, but was successfully logged in when he went to the homepage.

Feature request: It was suggested in LND developer slack to use a lightning based login. I definitely wanted to do something like this but wasn't aware of any prior art, but it looks like there is https://xn--57h.bigsun.xyz/lnurl-auth.html

Another auto feature request: tips ... it'd be nice to have a function to give a user monies but it'd have to not influence ranking for game theory reasons.

Auto feature request: make request caching less aggressive.

Figured I'd make a place to raise questions about stacker news.

Would also love any advice anyone has on features, getting the word out, etc.

bitcoin

Figured I'd make a place to raise questions about stacker news. 

Would also love any advice anyone has on features, getting the word out, etc.