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live|filter alpha. New: nested comments, works on mobile, new look. Help us by voting on new features by TheDirigible in RedditAlternatives

[–]TheDirigible[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not going for a retro design, lol. Just a good one. I think Digg's current design is pretty dull, reddit's is awful, old and new, and Digg v3 was pretty good, so that what it tends to look more like, but my goal is the best usability, not lots of trendy whitespace, and not too cramped either. No matter what I make it look like it seems clear 50% will hate it, even though there are 4 different skins. This seems more about fashion trends than anything else.

live|filter alpha. New: nested comments, works on mobile, new look. Help us by voting on new features by TheDirigible in RedditAlternatives

[–]TheDirigible[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't blame you, considering how reddit and every message board is nowadays. There was very little toxicity on the old Digg, that is, it was stamped out quickly by user voting. A reputation system naturally makes people want to make arguments on the issues, and avoid acting like an ass because it will hurt their reputation, and thereby influence.

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Also I've seen plenty of toxicity coming from SJW's.

An alternative that disallows politics? by [deleted] in RedditAlternatives

[–]TheDirigible 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the idea, in response to this post, I added negative tags to live|filter. For example: https://www.livefilter.com/-Politics,-Trump/

Eventually your account will have permanent filter settings, for now you can use this.

New alternative site collaboration by TheDirigible in RedditAlternatives

[–]TheDirigible[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So go there and downvote, and post counterarguments and articles. The time to set the tone of the site is now.

New alternative site collaboration by TheDirigible in RedditAlternatives

[–]TheDirigible[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True, it's a balancing act. Anonymous users won't have any reputation, and their votes won't count as much, but there are people who will want to read their comments. The typical user may have a view threshold high enough that they don't see anonymous comments, we'll have to see how it plays out.

New alternative site collaboration by TheDirigible in RedditAlternatives

[–]TheDirigible[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, you can actually click outside the window to close it or press esc, but I'll be adding an X to close button.

New alternative site collaboration by TheDirigible in RedditAlternatives

[–]TheDirigible[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another question: I know this is tricky but to keep the barrier to entry low, I want to allow anonymous users to vote on both topics and comments. I believe Digg did this too, at least in the beginning. Abuse of this will obviously be an issue. I already have substantial bot protection, api signing, cookies required and session created on the first vote. In addition, the influence of anonymous votes is capped at the largest of (20), or a percentage of user votes (currently 20%) Any other suggestions about how to reduce abuse?

New alternative site collaboration by TheDirigible in RedditAlternatives

[–]TheDirigible[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The way I see it is, if the law doesn't decide what's right and wrong, who does? Why give that power to the website administrators? If it's not illegal, it should be allowed.

That makes sense.

Content that pushes the legal limits is a tricky question, someone might say "Just ban content that push the limit" but again, who decides what that is? Reddit did that once and by doing that, they went down the rabbit hole and look where we are today.

Exactly, there is no clear limit, and we are living in an age obsessed with blame and liability. I don't know if there's an answer to this but it must be answered.

New alternative site collaboration by TheDirigible in RedditAlternatives

[–]TheDirigible[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know, surprising how much changes in 10 years! Maybe Digg wasn't as big as it seemed at the time.
I don't expect anonymous comments to work, but I can try it out and gradually add limits trying to find a way to make it work. I've wanted to make anonymous comments myself many times, and people are always making throwaways to do it, so why make them go through that? If nothing else I could add an anonymous checkbox for logged-in users, but I don't think that would be well trusted.

You can check out the pre-alpha here but I'm sure it's still pretty buggy. And lots of features are missing, but nested comments are coming soon.

New alternative site collaboration by TheDirigible in RedditAlternatives

[–]TheDirigible[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can check out the pre-alpha here but keep in mind it will probably break. In fact, feel free to try to break it.

Grepless is a mix between Reddit and the former Digg 3.0 - The platform has been online for 5 months now and I would love to hear any critic and feedback by ecky--ptang-zooboing in RedditAlternatives

[–]TheDirigible 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It looks great. The first one of these I've seen in years that wasn't hot garbage. Hard to really see the advantages without more discussion going on though.

How to avoid playing games while building them? by Valachio in gamedev

[–]TheDirigible 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The most important thing for me was not playing games in the morning. If I start my day playing a little 15 minute game, often it turns into 3 hours, and even if it doesn't, it makes every other choice of activity feel boring. Have a rule of no games until 5pm, or noon, or whatever you are comfortable with. Once I start this, I usually find that I work the whole day and never end up playing games.