alt Hacker NewsI’ve been writing an HN clone that’s literally a clone. It copies all front page posts and comments. I just wanted to say publicly that dang is awesome. Instead of shutting down the idea, he’s been actively helping the project by answering periodic emails and… well, not shutting it down.
Not sure what to do with it yet. Maybe I could let users have custom filtering rules. But the point is, companies should support community projects like this, not throw around ToS violation claims like they’d hold up in court.
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This makes sense for HN as a marketing project for YC.
This doesn't make sense for ad supported platforms where the value is the eyeballs on their site.
Then again HN doesn't have ad revenue to protect, and you can only spend Karma at a limited number of retailers.
I would like for things to be so, but these platforms relief on you being on their platform, hooked on their algorithms, delivering them data. They need this in order to make money. HN is not monetized like this, so of course they're more lax. But I don't expect this to be possible for many other social media sites.
Is it available? Would like to peek around, I also made a clone. There are lots of little details about the HN ui that were difficult to get just right.
you're infringing HN users' copyright (and possible other rights as well), as they haven't granted you a license to copy, store and republish their content
On related note I really like serializer.io to read HN (I disable other sites it supports) in chronological order and have it synced across multiple devices under unique URL
I don't mean to discourage you, and it's great that you've gotten that support; but I don't understand what purpose this serves. I had understood that Nitter exists exactly because of the forces that would make X leadership tend not to like its existence. HN is already not trying to sell things or make the interface obnoxious for logged-out users, and it makes very responsible use of JavaScript; what is there to filter out?