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The sofiechan tag system: Name your tags or the AI will do it for you
We've been slaving away for you in the code mines over the past few weeks trying to polish up the sofiechan tag system and UI, and we have some new gems. I'll focus on the tag system stuff today:... posted 1h ago with 1 reply received technology meta

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Congrats to admin, the autotagger was a beast of a problem but he chiseled away at it and arrived at a nice technical solution and a nice feature.... 36m ago received

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External links
We don't want lazy cross posting. I think it is good practice to write at least one paragraph commenting or asking a question. Otherwise why should I care about the link that you posted. It is just lazy and will get quickly downvoted. posted 26h ago with 4 replies received meta

External links received

I like links. I think we should post more links and lean on our usual mechanisms to curate them. Low value low effort links will get ignored or hidden, but high signal quality links are welcome as long as the title gives us some reason to care. Hacker News... 21h ago received

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Ideas for tag renaming and ghost tag lifecycle
Hey anons. We've got the tag word frequency stuff running smooth now in the lab, but we need to add tag renaming to really make it useful. Let's talk about how to do that.... posted 3w ago with 3 replies received meta startups informatics fieldreports

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We're liking it with grey preview style quoted words. Fits better with the style of index pages while still getting the point across. Will probably randomize the selection too. 2w ago received

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Welcome to Sofie Channel. Curated anonymous discussion about life and philosophy.
I've been working on a little something in the background for the past year, and more earnestly for the past few months. It's a new social media platform designed to curate a high quality discourse community about whatever topics are important to us.... posted 1y ago with 28 replies received meta philosophy lifestyle

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Thank you for creating this site - it's tiring having to find good discussions on twitter or 4chan without it devolving into babbling chimps hurling shit at each other & calling others Jewish. 3w ago received

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Convenience features for conversations
Hey anons, we added some features: if you mouse over post references, you'll see a copy of the post pop up so you can see which it is and read it without having to navigate to it. Also, (you) and (op) are appended to references as appropriate. A few other ... posted 3w ago with 2 replies received meta

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Mouseover feature feels great, congrats 3w ago received

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Designing a word frequency auto-tagger for sofiechan
Let's talk about the upcoming auto-tagger architecture. All it has to do is produce affinity scores between threads and tags, and our now existent smart tag selector will select a high-affinity set of tags that also make a good index. To do this, it's goin... posted 4w ago with 3 replies received technology meta informatics

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It works! But slow as all hell. Right now we fully rebuild the "taste machine", which now includes this word frequency tagger, about once a minute. That used to do 50 iterations of the expectation-maximization algorithm we use to refine everyone's tastes, ... 3w ago received

It works! But slow a received

A Hidden Gem
One of the reasons I am posting here is to discover some hidden gems that cannot be found easily elsewhere on the web.... (www.sscnet.ucla.edu) posted 1y ago with 9 replies received meta philosophy bookclub

A Hidden Gem received

Othmar Spann is a hidden gem i've been working through recently, he's overlooked in the Continental tradition but a great companion piece to Spengler, Hegel, and Yockey. One of the few Catholic writers in the Germanic Continental tradition, even more rare ... 3w ago received

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Alt-social failures, coolness, and Good work
The central issue with all these 'alt-social' sites is coolness. A quick binary measure of coolness for websites is the existence of an /about page. Radiopaper has one, as does Uptrust, so they go immediately in the bin.... posted 1mo ago with 9 replies received meta startups gnon lifestyle

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This 100%, but also I actually do not want to know what sofiechan is. Is any decent social media platform definable? Its indescribability is what lets it hold power over us. Magic is not defined; it is ingraspable.... 4w ago received

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Do you wish to subscribe to our newsletter? (experimental)
Hey anons, this week we have a big delivery: the sofiechan newsletter. It seems to work. We're shipping it. Head to the "you" page and click the endorse icon on the newsletter question to subscribe, and you should receive something in the hour after Monday... posted 4w ago with 6 replies received technology meta startups

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Let's see if I get used it, but right now it feels like it will reduce my likelihood to post interesting links by 80% and effortpoasts by 30% 4w ago received

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Ergonomic features for anons and namefags: pronouncable nyms and profile pages
This week in the sofie mines, we've got pronounceable non-sequential anon ids (anon_haho, anon_ryfi, anon_lifo, etc), and custom nym bios and even profile pictures for nyms with proper usernames. Check it out.... posted 1mo ago with 3 replies received technology meta

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They're nice! It's a small thing, but a good aesthetic improvement. Also a functional improvement, in that they make it easier to track anons when scanning a thread. 1mo ago received

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Notifications have arrived, along with some smaller fixes and polish
Well it's that time again: 4:00 on a Friday afternoon. Time for the big push of barely-tested code to production! The sofiechan team has been slaving away in the code mines for you again this week, and we have some new updates:... posted 2mo ago with 2 replies received technology meta

Notifications have a received

Yeah it happens. I wish I had a better solution for you. It's been working reliably for most people afaik, and email is tough to get over those final reliability hurdles. Right now we're just using nearlyfreespeech as the provider, but we'll probably have ... 1mo ago received

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"Forum software blew a 4000x lead with poor UX" - Simon Sarris
I really liked forums. I liked imageboards. I dislike many of the patterns on twitter and group chats etc. But it's undeniable that those apps offer a richer more engaging user experience somehow. It's just more immediate with something you want to respond... (x.com) posted 2mo ago with 7 replies received technology meta startups informatics

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not a ton of new ideas here, mostly agreeing with what others have said already.... 2mo ago received

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Improved compose UI features
The new post compose ui (for new threads and for replies to posts) has some improvements today:... posted 3mo ago with 9 replies received technology meta startups informatics

Improved compose UI received

I really like this idea of extending community curation to the newsletter and I’m excited to see the first one. Here are some thoughts I have:... 2mo ago received

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Matching for anonymous private messages now works
We've been talking about this one for far too long, but now finally it's here: you can dm with other anons. Right now the only way to dm is to get matched by liking/following each other's nyms. This is neat but not as useful as it could be. We're also goin... posted 3mo ago with 6 replies received meta startups informatics fieldreports

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Yeah its a bit awkward still. “Follow” is probably the wrong concept, the UI needs an overhaul, and i’m going to add other features that clarify things and reduce need to run around “following” people (eg manual dm requests). Anonymous social net... 3mo ago received

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How to build better anonymous social media: curation and tags
Back in 2014, moot banned gamergate discussion from 4chan. This led to an exodus of the most adventurous and curious channers to 8chan, which had a strict free speech policy. For a few months at least, 8chan was a haven of smart free discussion on all sort... posted 3mo ago with 13 replies received technology meta startups coordination

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Very cool, guys. Let a thousand alt social media flowers bloom. I look forward to seeing your respective attempts. I hope you’ll still want to come visit us here. 3mo ago received

Very cool, guys. Let received

more useful nyms dashboard in "you" page
One of you asked for more clarity on how nyms work, and when I explained it, we realized it was all quite un-inituitive and the UI didn't lead naturally to figuring it out. Now if you go to the "you" page to check it out, it will tell you about your nyms a... posted 3mo ago with 7 replies received meta startups

more useful nyms das received

I don't mean to send a strong signal against namefagging. I built the feature so you could namefag. It was just some mild bullying over the particular choice of name.... 3mo ago received

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The plan for anonymous mutual matching dms
Let's talk about how anonymous dms with mutuals will work. Thanks everyone for the feedback on the proposed follow functionality in >>2622. Having now thought about it and pushed up the prerequisites, it's time to plan out the details.... posted 4mo ago with 11 replies received meta startups informatics

The plan for anonymo received

We're going to do a dumb nym-to-nym dm system to cover the cases where there is a clear intention from the users. But also, it will occasionally hit you with something like "nym abc (you) and anon xyz follow each other. You can DM here". The algorithm is a... 4mo ago received

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Help me figure out sofiechan poster vouching
Sofiechan's backend technically has the capability to consider not just a poster's posts and votes, but other user's direct assesments of that poster. That is, if you were to vouch for someone, the algorithm would take that as evidence that they are solid,... posted 5mo ago with 7 replies received technology meta startups informatics

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Yeah thats the idea. I just deleted the twitter app because its so overrun with retarded shill bots. I want a social network, even a small one, where we can be quite sure that we are all free men, and not robots or shills. We need some density of good vouc... 4mo ago received

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bug reports and feature ideas thread. help us get this thing ready for primetime.
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bug reports and feat received

It's much easier for the renderer not to have to know what thread everything is in, but we will probably do that eventually. We have to look them up anyways to connect the back-references, so maybe we can easily reuse some of that logic. 1y ago received

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Updates on sofiechan's curation system: Cybernetic Direct Democracy
I (admin) just pushed a bunch of changes. You'll see it most obviously in the percent signs next to the save and hide buttons, and as colored emojis indicating which posts are well regarded, and which are about to be deleted. Broadly, this is part of how s... posted 1y ago with 12 replies received technology meta startups fieldreports

Updates on sofiechan received

I notice a large number of threads converge on approximately 60% up, 1% down. This is two things: not enough people, so when the usual number of us vote and engage in a usual thread, it ends up with about the usual amount of evidence. But then they should ... 1y ago received

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