[sudo-discuss] nptech.io <= the social good hackernews

[Pete Forsyth]

It looks great on the surface, but as with so many of these things, I find
myself hungry for context, and the site provides none! Who built it? What
were their goals? How will they be thinking about whether they are reaching
those goals? How committed are they to fixing bugs, developing new
features, doing outreach, ensuring that it reaches its potential, ensuring
that it's not put to negative and unanticipated uses (spam, bullying, etc
etc)? What kind of resources (financial, humanpower, emotional) do they
have to bring to it? This month? This year? This decade?

These are the kinds of things that are probably known, and could easily be
communicated through a prominent "About this project" page or similar.
These days, when a page like that doesn't exist, I tend to think "Oh, that
looks like an interesting project with potential" and move on, unless
something actively pulls be back in.

Marina, do you know any of those answers? Are you in a position to suggest
that the creators tell a bit of that story on the site itself?

I hope this doesn't come across as curmudgeonly. I think it's an easy
problem to solve, so I hope this feedback is useful!

Pete


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso at gmail.com>wrote:

> hi all,
>
> i have wanted this to exist for a long time and now it exists!
>
> nptech.io is the hacker news for social good.
>
> let's put more awesome stuff on it and tell everyone! how else are we
> going to find out about all the rad stuff that everyone is working on? we
> need this!
>
> - marina
>
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