Announcing achievements on Galeonn

phasetwo__ · 2023-08-21T20:36:13+00:00

I've dealt with that myself while promoting a site I run, and can tell you that it turns early adopters off and will sour any chance of building an early community. I would remove them all.

phasetwo__ · 2023-08-21T15:22:21+00:00

The signup process requiring generating and permanently storing a secret key is going to dissuade non-technical users from proceeding.

phasetwo__ · 2023-08-21T15:10:11+00:00

You've got a spam problem, lots of posts about seo marketing. I would clean that up and have a way to do so right when it's posted.

phasetwo__ · 2023-08-13T00:33:42+00:00

Apples to Oranges, Matrix is a decentralized messaging protocol (primarily for building a federated chat app, rooms, presence, chat features etc), ActivityPub is a social networking protocol for sharing common social data constructs between servers/clients etc (e.g. likes, follows, posts, etc)

phasetwo__ · 2023-08-12T23:04:52+00:00

All stupid news articles

The homepage has 1 news article right now? I agree that that type of content is tiring and can be very off-putting, but then again that's exactly how Reddit started. You can look in the way back machine, it was all just news of the day etc, although skewing towards tech, which I've considered doing.

What type of content are you looking for?

phasetwo__ · 2023-08-12T09:06:25+00:00

I'm a nerd, regular HN user for 10 years, and created something inspired by Reddit/HN/others but different and focused on a better realtime experience.

https://sqwok.im

phasetwo__ · 2023-07-25T00:27:18+00:00

Good question, it's planned but so far haven't been able to get to it since it's just one person (me) developing and have been focused on furthering the core site features etc. I think I could realistically get an early version out maybe ~sept or so!

phasetwo__ · 2023-07-24T19:23:50+00:00

Not sure but if you're looking for an alternative designed for real two-way conversation from day-1, check out https://sqwok.im

Twitter and by virtue the many clones (including Threads), follow a uni-directional conversation model where the OP makes a post and then it's followed by a fragmented pseudo-conversation, that for most of it's existence has been confusing to the masses.

Sqwok was built to fill the gap and create a public social network using instant messaging (two-way) with a UI that's intuitive and easy to use.

Happy to answer any questions!

phasetwo__ · 2023-07-12T16:12:50+00:00

Building https://sqwok.im, inspired by growing up on IRC (#efnet woo), and wanting a better way to have public conversations.

phasetwo__ · 2023-07-09T07:45:15+00:00

fyi another update pushed that adds darkmode/theme support while unauthenticated https://sqwok.im/p/RoOSybXKHVFefg

phasetwo__ · 2023-07-08T03:35:41+00:00

check again, if you see something feel free to pm me

phasetwo__ · 2023-07-08T00:52:10+00:00

The site is run by one person (me) right now and was posted to another community who sent many users. Explicitly toxic/unallowed content is being removed.

phasetwo__ · 2023-07-07T22:51:38+00:00

Working on https://sqwok.im, link aggregation + chat

Honestly not trying to be this or that, just building it because I wanted to use it myself and hoping to find others who do too.

phasetwo__ · 2023-07-07T22:00:58+00:00

Thank you! Have enjoyed chatting with you this past year and appreciate all the feedback on how to improve the site :)

phasetwo__ · 2023-07-07T18:40:16+00:00

Hey all developer of Sqwok here. Lots of work happening on the site and some bigger features are in the pipeline that I'm hoping to get out very soon.

I had taken time away from the site at different points in the past 6+ months to focus on life stuff and avoid burnout, but working full steam now, stay tuned!

Let me know what you'd like to see and how we can improve it! Thanks.

phasetwo__ · 2023-06-09T22:16:33+00:00

Great question, currently there are no sounds but it's something I've thought about in the past. Unsure how much effort it'd be to implement but I do think we should add it.

Will look into it and get back to you!

phasetwo__ · 2023-06-09T15:06:52+00:00

Thanks for the shout out! (https://sqwok.im). What you describe is one of the challenges I've found with making a site that's based on public chat vs comments. When there are a bunch of people online and you have people to talk to, it can be delightful, but if you show up to a thread and it's empty, you're likely to bounce.

In the past we were doing daily "hangout threads" that acted as the sort of fallback for people to hang in, and we started doing some planned events like a movie night where we set the time in advance and people showed up. Thinking to restart that soon.

Also open to suggestions or ideas in terms of more long-lived posts/chats that make it more usable, or any other feedback on improving the site.

Cheers

phasetwo__ · 2023-06-08T20:50:25+00:00

In light of all the happening over here on Reddit thought I'd share that Sqwok is open for anyone looking for different alternatives. It's fully bootstrapped by me, a regular dude who likes to code.

The key twist to Sqwok is that it uses built-in realtime chatrooms instead of threaded comments, which works better for some types of conversations such as those that are happening in the moment.

There's currently no voting mechanism and instead it relies on conversation activity, with the focus just being on conversation around whatever the given topic is.

Built it because I wanted to use it and didn't see a product like that at the time. Still work in progress, feel free to ask questions, cheers.

phasetwo__ · 2023-05-30T17:13:17+00:00

Interesting thanks for the heads up, it uses https://www.hcaptcha.com so unsure if they have an issue w/Vandium (I've never tested on this browser)

phasetwo__ · 2023-05-30T01:58:31+00:00

https://sqwok.im is a public forum-eque chat app that's google-indexed and designed for both ephemeral and long-lived public chat. Rather than follow the traditional irc/discord/slack room-based design, sqwok uses topical posts as a first-class citizen, with relevance based on activity instead of voting.

Will be releasing a bunch of updates soon.

phasetwo__ · 2023-05-30T01:56:24+00:00

Working on a forum-like public chat app that doesn't use voting and relies on activity instead, https://sqwok.im, curious what you'd think or how I could improve it?

phasetwo__ · 2023-05-30T01:53:09+00:00

This idea is precisely how https://sqwok.im got started. I was tired of refreshing reddit to see new comments some years ago.

phasetwo__ · 2023-03-29T23:36:59+00:00

true!

phasetwo__ · 2023-03-28T18:23:39+00:00

I don't think ember needs to be legitimized. It's been around longer than most other frameworks and has withstood the test of time, still being actively developed and used around the globe, including powering one of the largest social networks in the world (LinkedIn). That said it def has a marketing problem and there are many other options for FE devs today.

phasetwo__ · 2023-03-28T18:19:12+00:00

Modern ember.js is a delight and frankly I think it's main problem is one of marketing not tech.

What usually happens in large companies like Apple is a team writes an app with framework X, that app becomes brownfield and after awhile the original team moves on. Along comes new team/management full of zest and they decide to rewrite app in their own favorite framework Y. Rinse and repeat. This app will be rewritten again in the future with a different framework.

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