Like someone else suggested, this is likely a case of automated flagging by fraud detection systems, but it does not excuse such terrible communication on Patreon's part.
I have been following the recent Patreon backlash with interest, which I think was triggered by Patreon banning a youtuber who goes by Sargon of Akkad for using the phrase "white [n-word]" in a youtube video. Sam Harris, who was one of the highest earning people n Patreon, closed his patreon account and explained why he did so [0]. Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin (popular internet personalities who spoke out against Patreon's trust and safety policies) are planning on launching an alternative [1] to Patreon that is more pro free speech. It would be interesting to see if they manage to build a free speech alternative since the problem usually is that the worst elements on the internet flock to it before regular people and the site/service will be labeled a hub for nazis/white supremacists and no bank/financial institution will want to do business with such a service. It also sounds like companies such as Stripe and Paypal can do little even if they wanted to support a free speech alternative to Patreon, since that would cause issues with their payment networks.
I am interested in learning a little about how the financial infrastructure works (banks, payment processors, regulations), who decides what types of service should not be allowed even if it's legal and what it would take to build a free speech alternative to Patreon, so if there are some good resources that you know about, please share them in the comments.
Perfect timing. I just started reading up about phaser since I was looking into building a html/js powered browser based gaming site, something like miniclip.com.
I am a complete beginner and I want to build a simple game to simulate trading bitcoin. Let's call the main character Wojak (since it's the most popular meme for bitcoin trading related discussions). Here's the idea : Wojak got into Bitcoin early and made a nice little fortune and now stays at home trading bitcoin on exchanges. I want the setting to be a house with furniture, a door, a window and a computer. Maybe something slightly better than this : http://img.phone.baidu.com/public/uploads/store_4/d/7/6/d769...
I will be using historical bitcoin price data to simulate a very simple exchange the user can trade against. Here are my questions for anyone who has built a game using phaser :
* Is phaser suitable for what I plan to build?
* can you give me an overview of what sort of time and effort building a game like this will involve?
* How do I generate the assets, models of the furniture? What tools are commonly used?
* How do I get audio for the background music and some simple effects for the scenes? Any good resources for this? Maybe there are apps that can help with this?
* Any good tutorials to get me up to scratch in understanding how browser based games work from a developers point of view?
* Any good resources and communities that might be helpful for what I have in mind?
I started looking into phaser and building browser based games a couple of hours ago, so apologies if the questions and my thinking are all over the place.
No mention about the privacy implications of having every transaction tracked? We're already at a point where pretty much every transaction is tracked and a cashless society makes being tracked a requirement to function in society. Is privacy even a topic of discussion with governments looking to go cashless?
I still try and pay with cash wherever possible, but many offline/physical stores often require a phone number or email address to complete a transaction, so privacy goes out of the window even when using cash.
Hi HN, developer here. Here's a quick rundown of the idea behind the site :
- Like reddit, there are topics (subreddits)
- each subreddit has a chat room and a forum
- code is open source (warning : it's a little rough) [0]
- there is currently no support for community moderation, but when I build the moderation features, I plan to make the moderation logs public
- I plan to explore ways to prevent abuse of mod status : have some of sort of community re-approval of mod status every n months, so any mod that the community feels is not operating in good faith/too harsh etc can be removed.
- there's currently a single chat room for each topic, but I plan to add support for mod created chat rooms
- the forum uses a dumbed down HN like sorting algorithm [1]
- I also plan to build an api for bots and maybe host them myself on aws lambda since expecting users to host their own bots might be too much to ask. Since no other major site seems to host users' bots, it might encourage users to build creative bots and not worry about hosting fees. All bots will be opt in, so users have to explicitly subscribe to bots to view the messages in the chat and forum.
This was actually one of my abandoned side projects that I decided to try and bring back to life. You can read a little about the 1st version and the fun experience with 4chan trolls here [2].
A little about the plans to grow the site :
- I'm thinking about focusing on cryptocurrency communities to start with, since they might appreciate the open mod logs + accessible chat and forum accessed through a web browser.
- SEO traffic seems to be picking up slowly, 30-50 hits per day and 3-4 signups, but I'll need to learn more about SEO to try and increase SEO traffic. Any tips?
Would love to hear your thoughts on my sideproject.
Scroll to the bottom and click on "More", both your comments are visible there. When a thread has too many comments, it gets split into multiple pages.
> How does YC feel about companies who don’t want to raise VC after the program?
Very interesting answer to this question. How does this work in practice? If a company decides against raising VC, what happens to YC's 7% stake? Profit sharing? Does the company buy back the 7%? Or does YC only see returns when there's a liquidity event?
Zapier was mentioned as an example of such a company. It raised a seed round and then decided against raising further rounds. In this case, how do the VCs see returns?
> now it's a floating bar at the bottom when reading comments that for some reason I can't get rid of despite the x button
The x button works for me, but when I load an other page it reappears. So reddit wants me to dismiss the floating bar for every page I visit on the site.
I'm curious to learn about the thinking behind building out such dark patterns. Have the reddit employees tried using the site on mobile while logged out for extended periods of time? If the answer is yes, I would love to know how they justify building out such a feature. Is there pressure to grow the app installs metric? It sometimes feels like reddit is losing touch with the community.
There's another variation of the popup where the button to install the app is huge and the link to proceed to the mobile site is tiny. It's also pretty easy to accidentally click on the button to download the app. Here's an image : https://i.imgur.com/rSS8HoI.png
I'm interested to learn why they chose to switch to Gnome instead of KDE plasma. What was the thinking behind it? Why wasn't the community involved in the decision? Gnome has the backing of Redhat and is the default DE on Fedora, so Canonical backing an alternative would have been desirable.
I'm biased, but Plasma or even Mate would have been much better choices. Plasma has been so good lately and seems to take community feedback seriously. Stability has been great, it's extremely lightweight and the customization options make me...happy. I've been kicking myself for not switching from Gnome to plasma sooner. For anyone skeptical of plasma, I urge you to give it a try : kubuntu, kde neon, fedora kde, arch + plasma, opensuse are all great.
Tangent : what happens to the whois guard if I want to transfer a domain between providers (eg- namecheap to google)? I've heard that during the transfer the whois guard has to be disabled. This means that services such as Domain Tools will log the whois data. Is this true? If so, is there any way to transfer a domain between providers while keeping contact details out of the public whois database?
Nice idea. The biggest hurdle with starting a community site is getting the initial users and maintaining a level of activity that keeps bringing back users to the site. If activity slows down a little, you will find that traffic decreases proportionally. How do you plan to solve the chicken and egg problem? After the initial launch, what's the plan to get your site in front of potential users?
I am working on a somewhat related idea : a site like reddit, but which also has a chat room for each subreddit/topic + public moderation logs among other features. I launched with only the chat rooms part of it and I faced the issues mentioned above, so I'm interested in hearing about your approach. Good luck!
I have been following the recent Patreon backlash with interest, which I think was triggered by Patreon banning a youtuber who goes by Sargon of Akkad for using the phrase "white [n-word]" in a youtube video. Sam Harris, who was one of the highest earning people n Patreon, closed his patreon account and explained why he did so [0]. Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin (popular internet personalities who spoke out against Patreon's trust and safety policies) are planning on launching an alternative [1] to Patreon that is more pro free speech. It would be interesting to see if they manage to build a free speech alternative since the problem usually is that the worst elements on the internet flock to it before regular people and the site/service will be labeled a hub for nazis/white supremacists and no bank/financial institution will want to do business with such a service. It also sounds like companies such as Stripe and Paypal can do little even if they wanted to support a free speech alternative to Patreon, since that would cause issues with their payment networks.
I am interested in learning a little about how the financial infrastructure works (banks, payment processors, regulations), who decides what types of service should not be allowed even if it's legal and what it would take to build a free speech alternative to Patreon, so if there are some good resources that you know about, please share them in the comments.
[0] https://twitter.com/SamHarrisOrg?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctw...
[1] https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/10772442911251742...