Strength News
Consumer and social
fitness news community
SHOW HN2018
137points
84comments
#304of 2,155 in 2018
Top 15%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
13 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 22 critical, out of 46 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.
Idea: 7 for, 9 againstExecution: 0 for, 7 againstPerformance: 1 for, 5 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Good concept and clean design, a useful alternative to superficial fitness content
From 4 comments
This seems more reddit-inspired than HN-inspired. That said, looks nice and clean, there is less clutter than reddit. So overall, its pretty good. Once you add comments and an…
jermaustin1 on HNI love it! Top post on eggs is exactly the kind of content I was hoping for. I’m sure you plan on adding comments. I will be a regular user and I’ve already shared with a few…
todd3834 on HNI know you posted them all, but the articles on there are exactly the kind I’d like to see as a user of HN. Looking forward to seeing a comment feature in the future if possible.
0db532a0 on HNI like this idea. HN has the ideal format for informed discussion.
miobrien on HN
Would like a more HN-like site with discussions
From 2 comments
I think this is a great idea - only thing missing is the thing that makes HN HN: discussions! Without that it seems just like an RSS feed. Also, groupings like Ask HN or Show HN.…
octygen on HNFantastic! I already saw some interesting articles. In fact science is greatly needed in this area, where there's less of a scientific focus on a lot of popular media sites on…
mancerayder on HN
Objections
Site fails to load due to Firebase quota exceeded
From 4 comments
All I see is the loading icon.. seems like their Firebase quota exhausted https://imgur.com/a/LwBdMfi
krat0sprakhar on HNWebsite doesn't load, all I see is in the console: > Unhandled Promise Rejection: FirebaseError: Quota exceeded.
tbodt on HNAnd it's dead. Dev console says "Firebase quota exceeded".
akx on HNSite is dead :/ couple of errors thrown in the console.
aloukissas on HN
Requires JavaScript and is heavy (about 1MB)
From 3 comments
One thing I like about HN is its lightweight, unobtrusive, and respectful design. ---- Hacker News: 7 requests 61.10 KB / 20.65 KB transferred Finish: 1.04 s DOMContentLoaded:…
oftenwrong on HNThe inspiration's only skin deep. No discussion functionality and most importantly, doesn't work without javascript.
vezycash on HN>1MB for such a simple website is an absolute dealbreaker :(
hknd on HN
No discussion or comment functionality
From 2 comments
No discussion is a big negative for me
smaps on HNI'm very interested! Hopefully it is going to live and get regular updates. Nevertheless the HN UI feels better. And where are the discussions on SN?
qwerty456127 on HN
Requests
Add commenting and discussion features
From 3 comments
No discussion is a big negative for me
smaps on HNThanks. Excuse me. But comments are a very important part of the concept - discussions happen to be incredibly interesting on HN, it feels like I've probably learnt more useful…
qwerty456127 on HNI think this is a great idea - only thing missing is the thing that makes HN HN: discussions! Without that it seems just like an RSS feed. Also, groupings like Ask HN or Show HN.…
octygen on HN
Add server-side rendering or no-JS support
From 2 comments
I'm one of the two creators of this website. It grew out of the problem of Moistjuggernaut that he couldn't find any in dept training articles. So I helped him set up this MVP to…
DryJuggernaut on HNIt looks nice. I don't mind it requiring JS, although I certainly agree a website of this kind doesn't need it similar to how HN has only a few lines of it. I assume this is an…
0xCMP on HN
Add an RSS feed
From 1 comment
Any plans to include an RSS feed?
somada141 on HN
Questions
Where are the comments?
From 2 comments
Fantastic! I already saw some interesting articles. In fact science is greatly needed in this area, where there's less of a scientific focus on a lot of popular media sites on…
mancerayder on HNI'm very interested! Hopefully it is going to live and get regular updates. Nevertheless the HN UI feels better. And where are the discussions on SN?
qwerty456127 on HN
How did you get initial users and content?
From 1 comment
Hey pretty nice, cool idea. I'm wondering how you got your initial users? I've had similar ideas but a site like this is kinda useless without content, and without content,…
evo_9 on HN
Alternatives named
r/fitness
From 2 comments
why not r/fitness. These kind of crowd sourced websites require a lot of people to use it. last i checked r/fitness has millions of subscribers.
vthallam on HNIf you want active discussions, r/gainit or r/fitness isn’t too bad. As well as the weightlifting subreddits — really nice and supportive folks there.
pen2l on HN
r/weightroom
From 2 comments
i guess r/weightroom would be the best match. it has daily threads reserved for banter but is otherwise well moderated. r/bodybuilding is pure meme, r/weightlifting pretty…
stefs on HNI've found a lot of high quality discussions at reddit.com/weightroom
rhcom2 on HN
r/AdvancedFitness
From 2 comments
The best place I've seen for in-depth training articles it the Advanced Fitness subreddit, https://old.reddit.com/r/AdvancedFitness/
anon4930 on HNThere's also /r/AdvancedFitness.
zacym on HN
Lobsters
From 1 comment
Any reasons you didn't go with https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters ?
johnchristopher on HN