Seems reasonable to explore some off-the-shelf options, to get a solid system in place quick.

Demand is high, see #4

Disqus and Livefyre are the two commercial options that come to mind.

@marccantwell is looking into it.

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[email protected] on the FAQ page seems to bounce at the moment.

Project categories would be nice, here some ideas on how they could be filtered.

• Type (Frontend, Backend).
• Language (PHP, Ruby, JavaScript).
• License (MIT, Apache).
• Platform (Online, Android, IOS, Windows, Linux, Mac).

Complements #18 and #19.

A login system more similar to something like on Hacker News where it is barebones and easy to create.

After cloning app to local machine, running rails server, and then following instructions to add all the missing pieces (gem bundle install, creation of db, db migration, and adding my own settings.local.yml file), I got the app running at localhost:3000.

Tried to login and it goes to twitter, authenticates, redirects back to the application and after spending a few seconds on localhost:3000/login/callback# it changes the message from logging in to Login unsuccessful. Something went wrong.

Would really be grateful for some direction in where to go from here to make the app work :)

Thanks!!

I want to see other people's comments. The discussion around a product is good to see.

for verified product owners, allow them to see the feedback posted to their app

as mentioned by many people, gray on white is not a great combination :(

I don't have the time to visit the site each day so a view (or in the future even a newsletter) listing the top X products per week/month/year would be great!

I keep getting CAPTCHA if I have JavaScript disabled (was never successful in solving that, image or audio no matter).

I don't believe JavaScript is required for this site to work - with at least basic functionality. Could you please allow to access the site to browsers without JavaScript?

Insights could be an important feature for project creators to see how their project is ranking across periods of time as well as any trends or traits associated.

• Votes.
• Referrals.
• Views.
• Click throughs.

This could also provide a source of income for the project to keep on top of operational costs as a viable alternative to advertisements (not for profit).

with launch of our expanded community moderation tools, we'll need to set a clear guideline on what products belong on OpenHunt.co, and make sure all the moderators know what the community is looking for.

Obviously this is going to be an ongoing discussion throughout the life of Open Hunt, but it just needs something simple and clear to kick things off

I'd really love to see the top charts on OpenHunt, especially if you add categories in a future release - to top posts for each category.

Sadly I don't know rails so I can't really help out here (as much as I'd love to!) but I love the whole open community idea! Well done guys.

Voting down a project would require a reason to be left alongside it for moderation but could tie in with #9.

Hi,
you've forgot to implement an internal registration and account system. I'd prefer not having to register at twitter or using my twitter account for logging in.

Login unsuccessful. Something went wrong: Error: api_calls exceeding plan authorized calls

I like the idea, but you don't have to rip off everything. Twitter login? Just make it like reddit. Where you can be anonymous or just sign in with email.

Facebook won the oauth war anyways, why even choose twitter..

Logged in once on my phone then later tried from my notebook and authorization hangs up at https://www.openhunt.co/login/callback.

PS i think this is a great idea. Lack of openness at PH has always rubbed me the wrong way.

We don't have a karma system yet to choose the moderators, however if you'd like to become a moderator just reply to this github issue! We'll reach out

The about modal window opens automatically currently even on mobile browsers. It is kind of tricky to tap between the space of the container and window to close it.

This line explicitly says "If today is Sunday (first day of week) then previous date is Friday" which effectively prevents the JS from loading yesterday's products. Is that voluntary? Maybe add a comment?

https://www.openhunt.co/people
Links to github/openhunting/openhunt instead of github.com/openhunting/openhunt

Having multiple columns, depending on available screen side would be nice and would reduce the amount of unused real estate.

This is a very rough proof of concept and should not reflect the final quality.

Would be excellent to have a place to talk in real-ish time with other contributors.

https://gitter.im/

I want to contribute to the project but I don't know where the install instructions are. Perhaps someone who has forked and setup a local install can do a quick write up.

Platforms would be nice, web, iOS, android, Mac, Windows, Linux, etc.

Images for posts would be a nice extra feature to have. I find myself exploring more projects when there are images.

the projects index page is only displaying 'today' and no other days, it continually tries to GET the same date bucket.

hi,
do you want to consider leveraging lobsters (an open alternative to hacker news) source code for openhunt ? That way both open communities can thrive.

Lobsters is also built on rails. (P.S. I have a fork with elasticsearch support as well).

https://github.com/jcs/lobsters
https://lobste.rs/

open audit trail - https://lobste.rs/moderations
open invitation trail - https://lobste.rs/u

Once we have a consumable api as suggested in #23, it might be nice to have desktop and mobile applications as indirectly discussed in #25.

hoping the AGPL gets used.

Hi,

I'm just curious what your code of conduct is for this project?

Thanks,
Alison

"Instead of burying posts, our queuing system will allow you to schedule your product post for a schedule slot in a future date, so everyone gets a fair chance to be seen."

there'd be a certain # of queued posts per day, and you can schedule it in advance for the first day that has a queued spot free

Support for videos in projects would be nice.

• YouTube
• Vimeo

Complements #18.

I appreciate that the usernames ultimately come from twitter, but usernames over there aren't case-sensitive.

For example I have an account on Twitter with username Stolen_Souls and both these links work:

• https://twitter.com/Stolen_Souls
• https://twitter.com/Stolen_SOULS

By contrast only the first of these two links succeeds:

• https://www.openhunt.co/@Stolen_Souls
• https://www.openhunt.co/@Stolen_SOULS

While in the early stages of development i would strongly consider moving to be api driven so you decouple the frontend and backend allowing for greater scalability and modularity.

If you need help with this at all, let me know and i will be glad to assist wherever i can.

It's possible to submit the same url multiple times. Please fix this.

allow people to sign up to receive the top products of the day via email

after seeing this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10760503

1. Remove twitter access
   
2. Log out.
3. Trying to login (login button then approve on twitter)
4. Callback failed with:

Login unsuccessful. Something went wrong: Error: api_calls exceeding plan authorized calls

allow anyone logged in to flag a project (not just moderators)

moderators would be able to hide a flagged product (with a reason)

I like the idea of open hunt, but I feel like it's going to be spammed to death every day, I think they're should be a cap to how many products can be submitted a day, just so that good products don't get left to the very bottom of 500x products

1. Follow
2. Following and Followers
3. Notifications for actions of the users you follow.

I may be missing something, but I don't understand how I can access to the comments posted on my product, even if there is written "All comments go directly to the product owner, and aren't posted publicly".

Where are they posted?

Thanks!

Add a quick start READ ME guide to help noobs.