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Ask HN: A site like Hacker News, but about art?

22 points by nahumfarchi ↗ HN
Hey all.

I was just wondering if there's a site out there that's like hn but dedicated to art and design instead of tech and science. I saw a few things here about design and typography, but it's mostly tech and science.

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greengirl512
I couldn't find one. If there's not a site like that out there already, there really should be!
pufuwozu
http://undrln.com/ is advertising, marketing and design.
oldgregg
What does it say that HN has much better design than this site?
noaharc
Out of curiosity, what are the differences which make you say that?
oldgregg
Too much white space, not scannable, poor font color/contrast, no indication of what is a link until you hover over it...

...nothing that couldn't be rectified in about 10 minutes of CSS dabbling.

vaksel
go there with javascript disabled, they are using radio buttons and a submit button to vote up/down
timoni
I'm still confused. unrdln and ycombinator both have black links, but at least unrdln has an underline onhover. And Hacker News has lower contrast in general and poor line spacing.
jtillery
Pretty cool idea.I would totally be interested in that.
BjornW
What about rhizome.org? I'll admit that I only visit it perhaps once a month, but it if you like art perhaps rhizome is something to check out? Oh, as far as I know its more a blog than a community, so not exactly like HN.
zimbabwe
If you're looking for design, ilovetypography and SmashingMag.

If you're looking for "general art", you're dealing with an incredibly tough subject, because each specific field of art requires just as much focus as the field of computer programming. There are few similarities in technique between composing and popular songwriting and rap, for instance, in the field of music alone. Oil painting and photography and sculpting and weaving are all drastically different. So the only depth you could get on a general art site would be something like "Look at such-and-such pretty thing," unless it was very cleverly designed to allow for more in-depth conversation. Then you'd have to convince those sorts of people to use the site, and some varieties of artists almost routinely avoid the Internet.

Hacker News works because programming is very online-intensive as-is. Art isn't. Making the transition is very hard. I should know: I've made three attempts thus far.

quizbiz
Start one at slinkset.com
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