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9 anni fadiscuss

Such a nice idea paired with a descriptive and non-click-baity title.

9 anni fadiscuss

> that allow people to find those similar to them, you are taking away their ability to do so

This is what I want. That people find their SO on a natural and unexpected way and not by sticking to their roots and setting the right filter in their dating app. Do you think Americans would be Americans today if hundreds years ago all the immigrants stayed with their groups? And again I use religion and ethnicity here equally since most of these platform do this implicitely too.

A society can only evolve and develop in a healthy way if groups mix. There are already so many barriers which hinder us to interact with others. Just say no to rules from the last century.

9 anni fadiscuss

I always got the best side project ideas when I was working on some other random side project.

Once you start to work on an even mediocre side project, just wait and after few days you get so many new ideas coming out of the mediocre project.

So, the message is, just start working on any idea.

9 anni fadiscuss

The whole discussion is not about the guys but YC and if they can back such a business.

9 anni fadiscuss

Dear Dang,

> When you say 'white Christians' you're changing the subject in a particularly trollish wa

No, it is not trollish, not at all. It's exactly what they are doing and IDK what is different with my example. 'Religion' is also often used as a polite way to target ethnicity. Which is also reflected in my example (and exaggerated to make it clear).

Dang, I think I brought some valid points and I would be happy to hear your/YC's opinion without sticking to some rethoric nuances of my post. Since YC is invested there might be some bias on your side.

This idea discriminates and strongly creates stereotypes. If latter is wrong please let me know why. Or Sam may reply.

I can't stop such ideas but I can kindly ask people like you who represent HN why you back such businesses.

You can answer, you can ban or shadowban me and/or censor this post. But whatever you do I would be happy about a response.

Just imagine I would be one of the bigger LPs of YC (before shadowbanning me).

To the downvoters: just keep on, I don't care.

EDIT: regarding you other point

> There are plenty of apps for Christians, as for all other kinds of specialized markets.

They are also just plainly wrong. The subtle difference is that YC is in none of them invested. And for some very good reason.

9 anni fadiscuss

What you experienced isn't right as well. That people express racial preferences on dating sites is just wrong. Dating providers should hinder such behavior.

9 anni fadiscuss

As I wrote: It strengthens and enforces typical stereotypes which don't make life easier for the target demo.

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I am not happy about such ideas and usually don't use explicit words on HN but this startup is a bit off for a YC startup. It's surprising that a well-known fund invests in such a venture.

Why do you want to keep people from specific religions stick together? It's for a society always better if groups mix instead of a ghettoization. I know that still many try to stay with their people which is totally fine but why enforcing it? You write yourself that there is a strong 'religious pressure'. With your product you make this pressure even worse. Oh I have to find someody of my religion and skin color, everything else is forbidden. It's not, it's 2017.

It's just not right. Imagine I make tomorrow a dating app for white Christians. Just with this description, I exclude other religions and skin colors and probably imply that those folks are inferior, you get it?

The biggest issue that all people who look like your target demo suffer from these stereotypes you create and enforce. Oh look at this dark skin guy, he probably looks for a wife wearing a headscarf 24/7, doesn't eat pork and prays on a carpet five times a day. Nothing bad about this lifestyle, it's a totally fine way of living which I respect, but please do not create stereotypes. There are many of your target demo who are happily fine to marry someone not from their religion.

And dating as a business is super though (eg banned by FB Ads) and since Tinder almost impossible. Unsure about your growth potential. Religous folks still use traditional ways (parents and co) and the other use traditional dating apps.

And2: Paul himself wrote himself many times, do not do dating. Why does YC still do dating?

9 anni fadiscuss

There was a time when people used more and more websites because they were fed up with desktop apps. Hopefully we see the same soon again.

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But this is not a problem of Discord but of all group chats. The initial discussion point was that Discord might be insecure because of young hackers building the product.

9 anni fadiscuss

I made the opposite experiece and just made a test with some medium and similar sized chat servers with many users amd history (bitcoin related chat servers) on Slack and Discord in Chrome which should represent their native Electron apps:

Data from Chrome Inspector's network tab:

          Slack Discord
  Req.       93     103
  Transf.22.4MB   5.2MB
  Finish 39.19s   6.48s
  DomCL.  6.53s   4.01s
  Load   21.70s   4.16s

Maybe some more of us could do some tests as well. Anyways, I really can't believe that Discord is sluggish. Slack definitely is. First I thought it is so slow because they load all the chat history but they don't.

9 anni fadiscuss

What?

This is where they started and you can also use the product for everything else than gaming.

And if you mean the dark theme you can change this to a bright innocent I-am-serious-engineer Slack theme.

9 anni fadiscuss

> My CI has plugins, and do those have integrations for Discord too?

Yes and if not there is a Slack-compatible API, check Discord's API doc.

Just try Discord, takes one minute and will know yourself if you like it. It's not a behemoth like Slack.

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> Discord's development team has a lot of very young people (no proof, but I'd swear some of them are 13-16 years old)

Someone spreading FUD?

Everything with Discord feels like a super mature well develoved product.

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Onboarding is a millions times easier.

With Slack you need for every chat a new login/password and 100 clicks for sign-up, skip tutorial and email-verification, WTH why? Getting users into Discord is one single click. With Discord you have one login and you can have different names per server.

And Slacks admin pages are just a confusing pile of mess, my .vimrc is light-weight compared. Slack is so overrated and people just use it because everybody does.

Discord has never been sluggish for me.

However, both are timewasters.

9 anni fadiscuss

Once you tried Discord you wonder why people are still using Slack.

Btw, Discord also surpassed Slack in traffic on SimilarWeb.

9 anni fadiscuss

Anyone who could provide a quick overview/comparison of sites like Teespring, Redbubble, etc from a creator's perspective?

Are they reliable? Do they pay in time and for all the sales? Do they hide sales?

9 anni fadiscuss

I did this recently for the same reason.

Do not wait and get a Linux system with i3 tomorrow. You will be so much faster and more structured in your daily workflow than with Alt-Tab.

A nice side effect: Apps feel much faster than on OSX. I don't know why but everything is snappier and just more resonsive despite a much weaker CPU and same hires screen on the Linux system. Especially the terminal rendering and application switching which is instant.