Gurlic
Consumer and social
community platform
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
9 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 8 critical, out of 23 comments about the project. Thread score -0.02.
Design: 3 for, 3 againstIdea: 1 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 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
Fast, lightweight site with good performance
From 2 comments
This is incredible work! It looks snazzy and yet is very light - the frontpage only took 300kb to load (compare that to new reddit, lol). I really love the alt text for NSFW…
d3nj4l on HNThe website is super fast! Great engineering. Are you the only developer on this?
ignoramous on HN
Clean design and nested community concept
From 2 comments
I love the theming options, nested communities, and your goal to federate the network in the future! The concept of having different types of "breads" based on things like…
bjtitus on HNGreat work! I like the bread and nesting idea! At this point I feel that every new "social platform" should greet me with a whitepaper. "How is this different from Reddit? What…
wraptile on HN
Objections
Looks and feels like a reskinned Reddit with fewer features
From 2 comments
It is like a redesigned reddit with most of the features missing and doesn't recognize dark mode by default.
markawesome on HNlooks like reddit, conceptually
gverrilla on HN
Mobile padding is too large and footer is hard to reach with infinite scroll
From 2 comments
Padding on mobile is gigantic
dvh on HNSo.. I can't get to the about page because when I scroll down to see the links in the footer, it loads more content :)
PudgePacket on HN
Requests
Manual load or fixed footer instead of infinite scroll
From 2 comments
Great work. Your design is nice. But if I may give one critique. Please add a way for users to reach the footer, it becomes silly to reach it when you have endless scroll. Either…
raghukamath on HNManual load would be awesome.
junon on HN
RSS for communities and an API for posting
From 2 comments
I love the theming options, nested communities, and your goal to federate the network in the future! The concept of having different types of "breads" based on things like…
bjtitus on HNsuper cool. I'm reading and checking the website. Are creating API for posting is in your timeline? Is black theme? wonderful job
vongomben on HN
Dark theme
From 2 comments
super cool. I'm reading and checking the website. Are creating API for posting is in your timeline? Is black theme? wonderful job
vongomben on HNIt is like a redesigned reddit with most of the features missing and doesn't recognize dark mode by default.
markawesome on HN
Questions
How moderation will work and handle abuse
From 2 comments
This is incredible work! It looks snazzy and yet is very light - the frontpage only took 300kb to load (compare that to new reddit, lol). I really love the alt text for NSFW…
d3nj4l on HNYou're also going to have to deal with cases where the creator of a sub-community fails to do their job as a moderator (or actively works against it). In the limiting case, if…
JoshTriplett on HN
Whether the code will be open sourced
From 2 comments
This is amazing to see, do you have the code source available to read? if not, I understand, but I would be curious what programming language you wrote all this in. Oh and,…
Multicomp on HNHey! I made an account — this seems like an awesome idea, and I really like your vision. It seems like this format will really appeal to hacker-types with the idea for eventual…
jacobkania on HN
Alternatives named
Reddit
From 3 comments
Great work! I like the bread and nesting idea! At this point I feel that every new "social platform" should greet me with a whitepaper. "How is this different from Reddit? What…
wraptile on HNlooks like reddit, conceptually
gverrilla on HNIt is like a redesigned reddit with most of the features missing and doesn't recognize dark mode by default.
markawesome on HN