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How HN took it
16 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 15 critical, out of 44 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Idea: 15 for, 7 againstPerformance: 0 for, 5 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clever idea that gives history context and perspective
From 3 comments
I think it's a brilliant idea. It will result in timelessness being emphasized. Politics rage and "the Twitter mob" is not timeless for the most part, but the key learnings and…
anonytrary on HNI wish I could see - I love this idea. Although sometimes I look at newspapers from a long time ago to see what was being talked about. A lot of times it's the little things that…
cbanek on HNSturgeon's law: "90% of everything is crap". With the benefit of time it's easier to filter out the crap. New crap is shiny, old crap is stinky. Sturgeon was talking about pop…
bryanlarsen on HN
Lemmy is easy to deploy
From 1 comment
I've deployed a number of web services and I have to say...Lemmy was incredibly streamlined and easy to deploy. Deployment is entirely automated with docker and an ansible…
moksha256 on HN
Objections
Five years may not be long enough for current events to fade
From 1 comment
I love the concept, but I don't know if 5 years is even enough time for people to have gotten over current events. If you made it 20+ years, I suspect that would work better. In…
pmiller2 on HN
Age of posts depends on users' honesty and cannot be verified automatically
From 2 comments
I think it's a brilliant idea. It will result in timelessness being emphasized. Politics rage and "the Twitter mob" is not timeless for the most part, but the key learnings and…
anonytrary on HNHow do you determine the date of a webpage?
alexmingoia on HN
Old false claims can still be posted, so age alone does not ensure good discourse
From 1 comment
A post from 2015 about how the Earth is flat is just as disingenuous as a post from 2020 about how the Earth is flat. I'm not sure how this is supposed to lead to automatically…
minikites on HN
Requests
Filters for different age ranges such as 5, 10 or 20 years
From 2 comments
I think having it at a filter would be nice. Maybe 5, 10, 20 years.
enchiridion on HN20 years! Frankly hadn't thought of going back even further. But I guess if Lindy holds true, the farther you go back, the better it should get. In such a case having options to…
moksha256 on HN
RSS feed
From 1 comment
I looked for RSS but I didn't find it. Doesn't it provide any feed?
silasdb on HN
Questions
How is the post date verified?
From 2 comments
How do you determine the date of a webpage?
alexmingoia on HNI think it's a brilliant idea. It will result in timelessness being emphasized. Politics rage and "the Twitter mob" is not timeless for the most part, but the key learnings and…
anonytrary on HN
Why five years rather than a shorter period?
From 1 comment
I like the idea but why 5 years? Just to damper current events and lead to thoughtful discourse I'd think 5 days
geitir on HN
Alternatives named
AskHistorians twenty-year rule
From 2 comments
This is what makes askhistorians nice. There 20 year real I think. I look forward to checking this out.
ngold on HNThese particular constraints may not be ideal, but AskHistorians has a similar restriction called the 20 years rule where discussion of events from the past two decades is…
AlotOfReading on HN
r/TenYearsAgo subreddit
From 1 comment
FYI, there is a subreddit for 10 years old news. It doesn't receive much traffic https://www.reddit.com/r/TenYearsAgo/
diegocg on HN
Delayed Gratification magazine
From 1 comment
Interesting - reminds me of the "Delayed Gratification" magazine I just started subscribing to; it's a less ambitious timeframe, but by being deliberately 1-2 quarters behind, it…
NikolaNovak on HN
Reddit or a subreddit
From 1 comment
this could just be a subreddit, no?
skavi on HN