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Ask HN: Alternatives to New Mogul?

29 points by jeremyw ↗ HN
With much love to nickb, I think it's clear New Mogul isn't coming back, or at least it's frequent downtime (latest is ~30 days now) kills community.

New Mogul is/was a Hacker News-style community for "Business, Finance, Quant, Management, Leadership News" using the same pg software.

Any alternatives?

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miles
Derek Moeller has built an admirable alternative:

http://www.markenomics.com/

Thanks to Prakash for letting me know about Derek's site. <s>NM fans</s> (make that everybody) will also be interested in subscribing to Prakash's blog:

http://www.cloudknow.com/

prakash
Thanks, Miles!

Miles & I were moderators of NewMogul, and over the past few weeks we have been talking about setting up a community with the same intention. I say intention since NM had an awesome community with folks with different backgrounds and experiences, very much like the early HN days.

I played around with setting up reddit on a separate hostname, around the time I got invited to viewsflow.com and then to markenomics.com -- those are the 2 sites I use these days.

hope that helps.

mediaman
Thanks Miles and Prakash for the pointer to Markenomics.

I pointed some of my friends in banking that way and it seems to be circulating with some of the Wall St. crowd, although they tend to be more viewers than engagers.

gojomo
Domain newermogul.com is available!
iamelgringo
I'll be releasing one in the next few weeks. A while back, I decided to not use the HN software, so I rolled my own. I could use some alpha testers. So, if you're interested, ping me at iamelgringo at google's email service, or just reply to this comment, and I'll email you when I launch.
stefano
Could you share the reasons you decided not to use HN software?
auston
Does anyone know what happened to nickb?
falsestprophet
I emailed him several times at nickb.yc@gmail.com about getting newmogul.com back up before starting moniedinterests.com, but he never got back to me.

He is likely doing well. He disappeared for a month (or maybe longer) before and showed up to leave a comment at NewMogul (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=784284).

I suspect he simply moved on. I also suspect he'll be back.

rantfoil
Recommended: slinkset.com as a social news platform for superior uptime. (disclosure: It's one of our sites.)