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by sillysaurus3 3090 days ago
It's not that your idea doesn't have merit. It does. I went down this path myself, in the beginning.

But if you game out the implications of this, the conclusion is that everyone will see a different front page. And that has a bunch of subtle implications.

Reddit tried it. It could work. But it makes for a divided community, or set of communities. You see this with the various subreddit wars.

Do you have an email I can chat with you more about this? Hit me up if you're interested.

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We can "chat" in this ibGib:

https://www.ibgib.com/as-chat/pic%5E6F40CA17107671491E64DB0B...

I've started to respond a little bit to your conclusion of seeing different front pages. Note that the site seems to be a little slow at the moment (I'm not much of an optimized coder, as the underlying tech is hard enough - premature optimization and all that).

This was quite unexpected, and incredibly cool. This is your chat project, right? Are there desktop notifications? Can I read more about it somewhere?

I'm a bit busy tonight with hacking, but I'll keep the tab open and check it periodically.

Oh, and also, I should say anyone interested can join that "chat" (not that there will be anyone, mind you)...

And it's especially slow today - not seen it like this before. Barely possible I'm hitting the extent of my small instance's capabilities.