tuning reddit?

[cross-posted to MMM]

The software that runs reddit.com was open sourced today.
For those of you not in the know, reddit is a collaborative
news site like digg.com (but much better in my opinion).
I've been thinking for months about how it could be good
for the tuning community. It's the perfect evolution of
a mailing list in my mind. The ratings system could be
used to generate a ad hoc FAQ. There could be even a
subreddit for "Frequently Asked Questions", along with
subreddits for "tuning math" and "making microtonal music".

A few of us could chip in for hosting (I'll cover the
first year) so we could be ad-free. You wouldn't be able
to get e-mail -- you'd have to use the website. It has
captchas to keep out spammers.

The comments system on reddit is really good. It's very
smart about detecting quotes and avoiding ugly line wraps,
but its threading and indentation could save us a lot of
trouble with all the quoting text in the first place.
You can edit your posts, so no more sending out a separate
message to fix typos.

It doesn't support constant-width fonts at the moment,
but presumably that wouldn't be hard to fix.

I'm not suggesting this as a replacement for the current
lists. Rather, just that we could give it a try. If it
works out so well that it displaces the current lists,
then that's what happens.

Is anyone else interested? Especially in being the
sysadmin, or at least in providing some tech support if I
get stuck?

-Carl

No e-mails? That is not an attractive option.

Oz.

On Jun 19, 2008, at 12:28 AM, Carl Lumma wrote:

> [cross-posted to MMM]
>
> The software that runs reddit.com was open sourced today.
> For those of you not in the know, reddit is a collaborative
> news site like digg.com (but much better in my opinion).
> I've been thinking for months about how it could be good
> for the tuning community. It's the perfect evolution of
> a mailing list in my mind. The ratings system could be
> used to generate a ad hoc FAQ. There could be even a
> subreddit for "Frequently Asked Questions", along with
> subreddits for "tuning math" and "making microtonal music".
>
> A few of us could chip in for hosting (I'll cover the
> first year) so we could be ad-free. You wouldn't be able
> to get e-mail -- you'd have to use the website. It has
> captchas to keep out spammers.
>
> The comments system on reddit is really good. It's very
> smart about detecting quotes and avoiding ugly line wraps,
> but its threading and indentation could save us a lot of
> trouble with all the quoting text in the first place.
> You can edit your posts, so no more sending out a separate
> message to fix typos.
>
> It doesn't support constant-width fonts at the moment,
> but presumably that wouldn't be hard to fix.
>
> I'm not suggesting this as a replacement for the current
> lists. Rather, just that we could give it a try. If it
> works out so well that it displaces the current lists,
> then that's what happens.
>
> Is anyone else interested? Especially in being the
> sysadmin, or at least in providing some tech support if I
> get stuck?
>
> -Carl