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Show HN: Webwide – a discussion community for web designers, devs and makers

by xadz on 10/13/19, 5:14 PM with 55 comments

  • by puranjay on 10/13/19, 7:27 PM

    Extraordinary that we're coming full circle with the internet. Slack is the new IRC and "communities" are the new forums.

    Makes me think how much collective human knowledge we're losing as all the old forums go extinct (Archive doesn't backup everything).

  • by xadz on 10/13/19, 5:43 PM

    Hi HN! I launched Webwide this week. A bit of a throwback to the traditional forum. About time they made a comeback in this space I think!

    Let me know if you have any questions or comments at all.

  • by perspective1 on 10/13/19, 6:07 PM

    User beware: "You are granting us with a non-exclusive, permanent, irrevocable, unlimited license to use, publish, or re-publish your Content in connection with the Service."

    ...and

    "We may remove or modify any Content submitted at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice."

  • by tiborsaas on 10/13/19, 8:27 PM

    Just a feedback on registration. I used github connect, then you ask for me to type both username and email, but you should already know these info. I'm using a lazy third party sign in just to avoid this and skip the activation email procedure.

  • by cdata on 10/13/19, 6:33 PM

    I mean for this comment to be constructive, but it is steeped in my personal opinions about the web and the rise of social networks within it, so I would like to emphasize that any apparent animus is not directed at your product, which seems nice and good intentioned. That said:

    I personally wish that any forum for discussions about the web and related professional and/or creative work would be (wait for it) open and readable by the entire web. To me, the advent of walled-garden / login-gated content silos was a milestone in a long, degenerative process for the web overall. This forum seems to follow in that mold, preventing me from viewing any of the related content without first creating an account, signing some TOS or EULA and logging in. To be honest, this whole arrangement reminds me of ExpertsExchange, which some might recall from the days before StackOverflow was a thing.

    I completely agree with the premise of this product, but I will always caution my colleagues to avoid closed forums like this.

    [Edit] At the time of writing, there was no obvious way to view content in the site without logging in. OP has since shared a link below showing how to browse the content without logging in.

  • by dpau on 10/13/19, 6:50 PM

    i would be much more interested if it was built on open source forum software that we could all improve and use to build our own communities. in fact i wonder why OP didn't use an open source alternative like phpbb, flarum, or discourse but instead went with a proprietary solution?

  • by m_b on 10/13/19, 6:30 PM

    Another silo I can’t know how it works, contribute to, nor host it myself.

    No thanks!

  • by digitalboss on 10/13/19, 11:50 PM

    A sad reminder of the Geeklist old days. I'll give it a spin, congrats on the launch Adam!

  • by sandov on 10/13/19, 9:12 PM

    Looks really nice, but so did Medium when it started, and look at them now.

    On one hand I'm excited, on the other, I'm cautious not to funnel too much time into something that may Mediumify (i.e. turn into absolute garbage).

  • by arkitaip on 10/13/19, 5:44 PM

    What makes your community inclusive?

  • by jaequery on 10/14/19, 5:57 AM

    Care to share the tech stack behind the forum?

  • by melvinroest on 10/13/19, 5:53 PM

    Redacted