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A community powered platform
squabbles
A new kind of social media - A community powered platform
This social network is a combination of Twitter and Reddit. It takes the best of both worlds where you can both follow the people you love, and have great, in-depth conversations with them and others.
A clean, simple interface that facilitates conversation.
Hey everyone. I created this social network out of a personal want. I use and enjoy both Twitter and Reddit, but each of them is lacking what the other has. Twitter is great for following notable people (and sometimes interacting with them!), but the UI doesn't facilitate conversation very well. Reddit is great for conversations, but not good for following people. There needed to be something in between the two, which I personally waited for someone else to create. To this day, no one has. So I decided to just create it myself.
Introducing Squabbles! You can follow the people you find interesting, and you can have in-depth conversations as well. You can "tweet", and your followers can see your posts. You can join conversations with multiple people, in a format that facilitates it, and you can browse communities on subjects you love.
I believe this can be a huge success, but I need your help! What do you need to do? Just use it! The biggest problem with social networks is the cold start problem. We need users to get more users!
We've already gained 20k+ users, and gaining more everyday.
Let's create something amazing together.
@jayclees "There needed to be something in between the two"
To me, Squabbles is on its way to becoming my something between the *three*: Reddit, Twitter and Facebook.
Thank you for building our new home!
@marclafleur I think he managed to capture the right timing, when there was a large feeling of miscontent with Reddit, and a bunch of people were motivated to look for alternatives for the first time.
Which is ironic given that Reddit exploded in popularity 12 years ago because of a similar situation with Digg.
I guess the bottom line is that timing is key!
@adetokunbo_abiola So much! Squabbles users post feedback every day and a team of people help review and prioritize. There's some basic stuff up next (e.g. user search) as well as more complex concepts in discussion (e.g. a more nuanced voting/tagging system without public downvoting). I'll let @jayclees note more immediate features to look out for.
One BIG thing though is Squabbles already has an API and a 3rd party developer community making use of it.
There's a bot that reports on Ukraine news every day, and several iOS and Android apps being built at rapid pace. I use Pulse, which has a clean and fast interface much like Apollo for Reddit.
@orysia_khimiak "Will it also have words limit for posts?"
If you mean the maximum length of posts, that's 10,000 characters.
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