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4444
A discussion site for various religious groups inspired from the design of hacker news.

People may like this techi flavour in design in otherewide very shiny and colour rich websites of religious content. Suggest your views :)

notadog
Why have Media Wiki in the name if you aren't actually using MediaWiki?
4444
Actually this site is dedicated to share the existing media and to allow users to discuss that media. Kind of meta media so we kept as media wiki.
4444
Also we are so much stuck in solving chicken egg problem of content here , can anyone share the early days of hackernews? like how it started growing?
robrenaud
I vaguely remember a mildly cultish obsession with lisp and PG.
4444
I get it, power users must be having cultish obsession around the topics, m sensing some parallel directions
schoen
You might also want to look for potential inspiration at the religious discussion sites at Stack Exchange.

https://judaism.stackexchange.com/

https://christianity.stackexchange.com/

4444
Thanks! This will definitely guide us on content ideas and growth of community.
trhway
can users of other than Buddhism religion customize "karma" into something else, like probably "mitzvah" for Judaism or whatever is used for sin/virtue credit maintenance in Christianity?
4444
Thats very fine idea, will do it for sure
woodylondon
Is this a open source version you can download and use yourself ? How was this built ?
foolinaround
Will this be open sourced?
4444
we are planning to do so once we come up with a suitable alternative wiki design, currently working on stable production for the forum first.
kiaorarohit
This is quite cool! What's the focus on this site vs. r/Hinduism and other such subreddits?
4444
actually r/Hinduism is not focused on strict discussion based on scripture also there are many kind of media formate involved like images,videos etc, for example religious groups have many rules and hierarchy based on scriptures to decide the quality of posts which is not found in r/Hinduism.
selimthegrim
What sort of hierarchy?
4444
so thats why we started with the category tree itself.

instead of flat tags, that's one visual difference

Ahmd72
I don't understand, I only see one religion (Hinduism) being discussed, how is it a discussion site for religious groups?
4444
Its an pilot with one religion , we will make it open for all other religions
mellosouls
That's not clear from the website itself - regardless, it would be better to reflect the website as is in the title here.

EDIT - title changed, cheers.

4444
Sure I agree, I edited the title :) It was in hurry actually but the idea is to have it for all religions. Since most of our contributors were from the particular religion we started of with that.
kapilkaisare
I suspect OP's confusion (and mine) stems from the domain name - it singles out a single religion (Hinduism). I'd be interested in knowing how the site will accommodate discussions on other faiths without changing that domain name.
4444
I think its not possible with same domain name so we are looking for alternative domain and will have subdomains for diff religions.

You can suggest some good top level domain name ideas.

kapilkaisare
theotalk.net is unclaimed at the time of this writing. :)
Ahmd72
I mentioned about the title because at the bottom of your website it says: "Hindu Media Wiki is a Resource sharing and discussion site for followers of the Hindu religion and those interested in learning more about Hinduism." This would be a better title in my opinion, regardless the idea you have for all religions is a nice one.
4444
Thanks, yes it would be a good title which I missed it.
mellosouls
Agree, Hindu should clearly be in the title of the OP here.

EDIT - title changed, cheers.

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