How have you done a deep dive on Tether and not seen it as deeply troubling?

Please don't cherry pick the worst example and apply it for the whole population.

Tether is one stablecoin, and arguably the worst example since it is literally the one coin every coiner will agree with you is a bad stablecoin. Do a deep dive on MakerDAO's DAI instead.

When tether implodes a lot is going down with it.

Did I say I did not find it deeply troubling?

You said

> Nothing about blockchains, DLTs, crypto, at its core is a scam to me

Which I took as an implication that you didn’t see Tether as a deeply troubling or a scam

Tether is an application, not a core technology. Stablecoins would fit that quote.

Tethers management is the problem - obfuscation and using other crypto as collateral instead of just USD.

The most interesting part to me is that you can enable and track paypal donations between third-parties with just the e-mail. I thought you needed to go through their APIs.

I love Kierkegaard and I agree that it can be really hard to figure out what he is trying to say. I wouldn't have gotten nearly as much from his writing if it wasn't for supplementary material.

You're right, TIL is "today I learned". I was inspired by a previous HN post where someone made a repo of short memos about things they had learned https://github.com/jbranchaud/til

Roham Gharegozlou of Axiom Zen, perhaps.

How do you call the most recently defined macro? I just have Q bound to @q, but if I could make it more general that would be awesome.

@@ re-runs the last macro.

Could you describe what you mean by interdependent actions? As in, chains of actions?

Yes, a chain of actions (for example, a sequence of AJAX requests that need to be fired)

Cool design, the y-meter reminds me a lot of the hubwheel we have at hubski[1]. In that vein you could remove the up arrow on the left side of the feed and differentiate on the y-meter itself whether or not you've clicked it.

[1]: http://hubski.com

What do you mean by 'avoid Bing'?

I think he/she is referring to the news that Google tried to delay roll out of Bing in some Asian markets.

Yes I was referring to Yahoo trying to delay roll out of bing in Asian Countries.

If you just want to explore some of the content without following any users or tags you can use the links in the nav bar, in particular the badges[1], tags[2], and community[3] links. You can also use the different hubwheels to see all of the posts with the same number of shares (the dots on the hubwheel, ranging from 0 to 8).

[1] http://hubski.com/badgesubs

[2] http://hubski.com/tags_pop

[3] http://hubski.com/community

I have the same feedback, FWIW.

I signed up a couple weeks ago and was turned off by being asked to follow various users whom I didn't know- in some follow-based communities it almost feels like giving a tacit endorsement.

Given that I didn't yet understand Hubski's dynamics or model, I was just sort of staring at the page as my interest-momentum at moving through the site dwindled.. and I'm currently on the [rather passive] search for a new community-based site. Many of your new users likely will not be as eager.

Somehow the abstraction provided by 'lists' (a la Twitter) that you can follow seems to break some of the psychological barriers.

Perhaps you could provide a few topical, curated lists of 'editor-picked' users to follow and have a brief sampling of what sort of content you're going to end up seeing by choosing to follow it.

anyways, looks really cool and hope my unsolicited advice doesn't come across as discouraging. best of luck!

Thanks for the feedback. I'm actually in the midst of a new user flow redesign. We also have some new ideas for non-feed browsing that we will be trying out.

We've tried a few approaches to make the site a bit easier to ease into. Obviously we have room for improvement. I appreciate the advice.