EDIT: I've decided upon anolag.com for now, as it is an "analog" of the word analog, as this site is an analog to reddit.
When the site is feature complete (it's close currently, I can't think of any core functionality that is missing, only UI), I want to accompany the actual release with a new, permanent domain. A few things which I still need to do are rewrite /about/, see if I can figure out a way to improve the top UI, add a comment/post preview, refactor some of the really bad early code (mainly the HTML), try to ensure the code is way easier to deploy/functional on things other than debian, improve account page/messaging, etc.
Maybe at some point I'll even write tests :^)
The type of domain I'm looking for is single-word, < 8 characters, presumably somewhat similar to an existing english word (think censys.net ).
Once a domain is chosen I'll create a slogan, 'mascot'/'icon', etc. I've honestly grown to really like the black-and-white globe, so that may actually stay.
Even if this project ends up not making a permanent impact on the internet, it's helped me resharpen my tech skills (which at the start were in a state of severe atrophy), meet good people, and shows that effort was put forward in providing a non-cancerous alternative to what reddit has become.
I was supposed to be flying to a job interview today, but last night had discovered the scheduled flight was to the entirely wrong city. LA vs SF
I'm not sure yet how exactly this will be resolved, my interview is/was tomorrow morning. I had already expected to be traveling all day today, so I'll use this time to try to find a decent domain instead :)
Making the site super friendly to crawlers will help a lot more than changing the name. Are you tracking crawl activity? I regularly get crawled by dotbot, yandex, bing, google, semrush, and a few others, and it's worth at least making a tallied rollup of logs available to look at.
The site traffic is 95% crawlers lol. There is a site map at static/sitemap.xml, robots.txt says crawl everything.
I'm about to get on a plane to LA to interview for the job I learned C for, after I get some time I could provide you the CF traffic stats. Site traffic logs are deleted after a day, but you will still get a decent idea of traffic distribution.
Try googling ieddit + anything. You cant even see the subs like oaa
Literally just you in your filterbubble. I searched for "ieddit + anything" and the first site was the main page here and the second was your hackernews announcement.
When the site is feature complete (it's close currently, I can't think of any core functionality that is missing, only UI), I want to accompany the actual release with a new, permanent domain. A few things which I still need to do are rewrite /about/, see if I can figure out a way to improve the top UI, add a comment/post preview, refactor some of the really bad early code (mainly the HTML), try to ensure the code is way easier to deploy/functional on things other than debian, improve account page/messaging, etc.
Maybe at some point I'll even write tests :^)
The type of domain I'm looking for is single-word, < 8 characters, presumably somewhat similar to an existing english word (think censys.net ).
Once a domain is chosen I'll create a slogan, 'mascot'/'icon', etc. I've honestly grown to really like the black-and-white globe, so that may actually stay.
Even if this project ends up not making a permanent impact on the internet, it's helped me resharpen my tech skills (which at the start were in a state of severe atrophy), meet good people, and shows that effort was put forward in providing a non-cancerous alternative to what reddit has become.
I was supposed to be flying to a job interview today, but last night had discovered the scheduled flight was to the entirely wrong city. LA vs SF
I'm not sure yet how exactly this will be resolved, my interview is/was tomorrow morning. I had already expected to be traveling all day today, so I'll use this time to try to find a decent domain instead :)