382 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 3 Dec 2023 \ on: Crazy feature idea nobody asked for: SN as discussion layer for the internet? meta
We have a very stale gh issue on Disqus-like comment embedding. Both @Car and @TonyGorgio have requested this memorably, but many others too.
I like the idea and related ideas a lot. I can identify the itch. Only, scratching it is nontrivial enough that it's always felt like another product entirely (albeit a very adjacent one).
- I've been told comment embedding is pretty tractable (hence the gh issue) despite most solutions I'm familiar with tending to be fragile.
- but, maybe the fragility is spam/incentives related
- I'd guess annotation extensions struggle with network effects.
- but, maybe this isn't a problem for a product with existing network effects
In either case, I imagine it's kind of like designing an organism to live on every carbon rich planet. We know what life looks like on one of them, yet not what life that adaptable looks like exactly.
tl;dr it's something I would attempt to build if I could hire someone capable of building it well. Perhaps only after they helped me build all the other high priority things I can't yet build without them.
I love this concept, but agree it's a bit adjacent rn.
I wonder if there is something of a more immediate bridge that could get there. One thing I'd like is a "read-it-later" system that lets me occasionally/easily share to SN and be informed when people are commenting/discussing on SN about something I may have saved privately.
I sometimes use Pocket for this kind of thing, but I find it to be more of a disconnected silo for me. Not very networked/connected to other people. SN is all about the people.
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I remember we both pitching this to him back in 2021. It was and still is the same answer.
🤣 The first few episodes of Stacker News Live is basically me telling Keyan to build anything and everything. He was right back then he's still right now. Yes it pains me to say that.
🤔 Looking at the problem now though it would likely make more sense for something like Mash to build.
Maybe @jared_nusinoff could chime in.
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Good ideas keep coming back around, I guess.
What's Mash?
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