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87 pointsthegurus7y ago73 comments

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thegurusOP7y ago· 10 in thread

Hi guys,

DataTau has been down for more than a month. We tried to contact Rohit on Twitter and offered him our help to maintain or host the site, but got no answer, so we understood the project is over and decided to make 'a clone of the clone' on a .net domain.

We have been working on setting up a new version of the site with the same philosophy and Django based. We are not Web devs and although HN frontend looks simple, it has more features than we though. It is still missing some HN features (as original DataTau) but we are working hard to make the site better and bring the community back.

Please give it a try and report any bug you encounter.

I appreciate that you like the site and want to clone it, but it's extremely poor form (and extremely misleading) to give your clone the same name.

Not sure how it's misleading if it's the same product.

thegurusOP7y ago

It was an already existing product and we wanted to stick to it as much as possible!

xyzzy_plugh7y ago

I got real confused for a second as the top bar color is the same as my HN logged-in color. Good choice!

quickthrower27y ago

Medium-well Cyan FTW. And they use a HTML table for that bar. How unsemantic.

pedro_munoz7y ago

Wow guys! Really missed DT! Thanks a lot :D

NicoJuicy7y ago

Can I help out with handlr.sapico.me ?

It has a RSS-feed to item ( which is a link/post/comment for automation

joshenglish7y ago

honestly though looks like Rohit has been MIA for a little since there are a lack of tweets on his personal account since May, etc. Hope he is ok.

bitlax7y ago

Any chance you'll expose an API?

thegurusOP7y ago

We are working on it. Wanted to launch asap to give the community a sense of continuity since the original DataTau has been down for too much time (since May 15), so had to give up some features for this early version.

We have to: - fix bugs - improve backend, algorithm to assign karma and sorting posts in frontpage - implement a newsletter with best posts - make an API - opensource the code when it is a bit more polished

xxdesmus7y ago· 4 in thread

Please open source the code? Would love to run my own site (for a different purpose).

thegurusOP7y ago

After we resolve all bugs we want to opensource it. If you give us your email we'll let you know when it is available. Here is our GitHub page: https://github.com/TheGurus

justin {at} cloudflaredotcom

Thanks!

p.s. I thought it was lobsters, but it doesn't appear to be ...hence I asked. :)

somebodythere7y ago

Consider https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters?

Jaepa7y ago

This seems to be what is being used.

abatilo7y ago· 2 in thread

Website is broken. I clicked register without putting anything into the fields, and I got a registered account with no user name and password. Now if you click login without anything put in, you get logged in to my account, and if I comment, the username is blank.

thegurusOP7y ago

Thank you for discovering this bug! We are (hot)fixing it. Had to delete your user though, please sign up again (with a normal username if possible :-D).

underlines7y ago

Define normal :) i now own the user " " with the password " " you might add trimming special characters and whitespace.

zamadatix7y ago· 2 in thread

What is DS?

Edit: based on one of the posts I assume data sciences

Honestly due to lack of knowledge of the field or term my mind immediately actually jumped to supporting HN on the ancient Opera-based Nintendo DS browser - which, due to HN's text-only base - I figured was realistic.

To be honest, I'm a little disappointed that it wasn't. :P

Data Science (yeah we had to shorten the title and made it a bit confusing)

stephenr7y ago· 2 in thread

I’m curious why you wouldn’t just setup a copy of the Lobste.rs system if you want threaded discussions about posted links.

thegurusOP7y ago

Do you mean the frontend? In this case we choose to make a copy of HN because we really LOVE its retro frontend :)

No. I mean, lobste.rs is a complete working open source system that provides link sharing and discussion of said links, and is objectively better than HN’s functionality. Why didn’t you just install a copy of it?

nonbirithm7y ago· 1 in thread

Reminds me of [0], a forum for the Arc language (which HN is written in).

[0] http://arclanguage.org/forum

krapp7y ago

Also the public fork, Anarki[0], which I contribute to, and sometimes break.

[0]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

inputcoffee7y ago· 1 in thread

It went down a few times before and I reached out asking if he wanted help too. He did respond fairly promptly (< 2 days) and told me he was fine and about to get it back up. This happens every so often so I am glad you’re doing this.

Are the articles the same as he had? Did you get a snapshot before it went down?

thegurusOP7y ago

Yes, the main goal of this new edition is a 24/7 up site with the same content :) We have in mind posting some old content since it can be recovered.

samsk7y ago· 1 in thread

Please add RSS on your todo list ;-)

mashruravi6y ago

Done. https://datatau.net/feed/

Uehreka7y ago· 1 in thread

What is DS? Distributed systems? Data Science? That doesn’t feel like a commonly used acronym for either.

thegurusOP7y ago

It is Data Science! You are not the only one asking :-D

thegurusOP7y ago

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