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changing the way we collect links
Ben Mildren
rrrepo — Curated directories, for everything
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jns.eth
I like the idea behind this but even within a single repo I get information overload... For this to work for me (personally) you would need to segment repos into much smaller sub-repos at which point it might get super confusing... Again, I like the idea, but I just feel like you're trying to do too many things in one... (there is a reason why PH (as an example) started out as just ONE list, not infinite)
Ben Mildren
@sleinadsanoj Thanks for your thoughts :) We are actually focusing on Business, Tech and Development right now, but have opened up the repo creation for anyone and will see how it goes. In regards to repo info overload, well that's down to the moderator. Mods can create repos as big or small as they like.
Ross Currie
Nice one - I remember a snappy little startup that kicked off in the 90s with curated directories. I think they did quite well until some upstarts from Stanford re-invented search :) Seriously though, we've been talking about this in MakerHunt lately. I think it's fascinating the way in which things have come full circle. The problem used to be being able to find things on the net. Now the challenge is filtering through the clutter and so curation has made a comeback. I definitely think there's a big future for "Yahoo! meets Wikipedia"
Ben Mildren
@rossdcurrie Thanks Ross! We totally agree, and we've had many convo's like the one you mentioned regarding curated content. We really have come full circle. Google certainly killed curated directories, for a while. But without sifting through hundreds of pages on Google, I feel the best way to find the best content for a topic is through crowd curation.
Ross Currie
@mildrenben You'll get bonus points if you can bring back terms like "World Wide Web" and "Information Superhighway" :)
Ben Mildren
@rossdcurrie I'm on it ;)
Saijo George
Great work Ben. @mildrenben
Ben Mildren
@saijo_george Thanks man!
Ben Tossell
Like resources in one place, again I'm keen to see how crowdsourcing these will evolve rather than a curation... small feedback, make a Log-In button and prominent....I registered then didn't know where to log in for a while (maybe I need another coffee). Also, when I am logged in, how do I create a repo? - had to go out of the logged in section to be able to. May also be worth looking at simplifying the process to add a link. Sorry if seems a bit much, just letting you know my thoughts :) Good luck!
Ben Mildren
@bentossell Hey man, thanks for signing up! To create a repo, click the explore link, it's on that page. We know it's a bit crappy, we absolutely need to streamline the UI/UX, so we appreciate your feedback and are taking notes.
foo
An other step toward curation :) I thought of the Startup Stash variants as something where the value resides in editorial choices from moderators, I'm curious to see how crowdsourcing the content will go. I think there is space for non timestamped social curation. By the way, small bug: if you try to upvote something when not logged in, nothing happens from the interface point of view, and js console show a 500 error on xhr request. Message in response content is " Undefined index: user_id" (so I suppose it's about not being signed in).
Ben Mildren
@oelmekki There is still so much for us to sort out and fix, the UI/UX being one of them. We actually have 'prompt user to sign in if they upvote/follow/comment' on our todo list.
Mike Seidle
@rrrepe love the direction you are going on this. Please fix the login box so it works with password managers like lastpass.
Ben Mildren
@indymike Thank you! We'll be sure to look into pass managers :D
Max Leblanc
Well done Ben! I've been watching your streaming on Livecoding while you were designing this. It must feel good to actually launch it!
Ben Mildren
@maxime_leblanc Haha thanks man! It feels great :D what's your LCTV username?
Jorgen Gedeon
Seems like this service is down :(
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Ben Mildren
Repos are curated directories, for everything. No more using Github/other services that aren't made for lists, rrrepo houses all the best lists on the web. - Users can easily submit links to repos - a community of minds is better than one - Follow repos - users have a personal feed of additions from the repos they follow - Upvote and Comment on links Some repos to check out: Marketing ----------------------- https://rrrepo.co/repo/Marketing Startups -------------------------- https://rrrepo.co/repo/Startups Web Design -------------------- https://rrrepo.co/repo/webdesign Email ------------------------------ https://rrrepo.co/repo/Email Creative Resources --------- https://rrrepo.co/repo/CreativeR... Pokemon VGC ---------------- https://rrrepo.co/repo/Pokemon_VGC Wedding Planning ----------- https://rrrepo.co/repo/Weddingpl... Future Music ------------------- https://rrrepo.co/repo/FutureMusic Stock Photography ---------- https://rrrepo.co/repo/StockPhot... Tennis ---------------------------- https://rrrepo.co/repo/Tennis Slack Chats --------------------- https://rrrepo.co/repo/slackChats GulpJS --------------------------- https://rrrepo.co/repo/GulpJS Sublime Text ------------------ https://rrrepo.co/repo/SublimeText We're just out of the gates, and still in Alpha, so we are aware that a lot of UI needs to be streamlined, and we will be adding a whole suite of new features very shortly too.
Matthew Sot
Looks really interesting, you mentioned that a lot of people already have lists (some of them very large that would take quite a lot of time to copy over manually) of stuff on Github, any chance we could see a way to one-click import those lists into rrrepo? Might not be a perfect import because of formatting differences between the lists, but any major problems could be sorted out by hand afterwards.
Ben Mildren
@matthew_sot Hey! Thanks for the feedback. We have 'import from various services' on our todo list in fact. We will be implementing the ability to import from a GitHub list, bookmarks etc.