So you think this can work? I’d love to start a discussion on this post with issues, concerns, etc. You can say you like it too, or tell me how you intend to read it. I’m looking for your input 
Here are some known issues:
- Login w/ something like Twitter (feature request)
- Easy to find subscribe by RSS / Twitter buttons
A favicon- Create detailed author / user pages with relevant bio information. Also include feeds of recent comments, submissions, etc.
- Create a leaderboard page of top voted posts, etc.
Make titles smaller on tiny viewports.- Make it easier to feature something, and send a notification when a post is receiving a lot of votes. (I have planned all along to automate the featured page with a formula. Waffling on that though. Currently it’s just a taxonomy term.)
Prettier emails to new registrants, post submitters, etc.Better comment formatting for small viewports
Anything else you guys see?
By the way, the comments should be nice to use. It’s an AJAX Discussion setup by the folk at Interconnect/it, made for conversation. Try them
The post title for this post is linking to the plugin on WordPress.org — the only way I found to read the post was to pretend to leave a comment… and then decided to do it!
I noticed that too : ) Fixed it temporarily and will have a better fix soon. I assumed everything woud be a link, so my title template is a little janky for posts like this!
One idea, is to help automate the collection of links from Twitter. If someone tweets a link to post status have it create a post that you can edit / delete. Each new tweet that you see counts as a vote for that link?
I thought about doing that, maybe with a hashtag or something. I’m a little bit afraid of using IFTTT or the like because I’ve seen so many automated feeds go nuts. But I will certainly add it to the list of things to look into. Thanks, Scott!
Don’t auto-create a post but a feed with #hashtag suggestion to choose from. Much lighter and filterable. You could setup some custom filters in yahoo pipes, maybe.
That makes sense, too. Do y’all think the barrier on the submit form is too high?
This is such a great idea. I love the fact that you are focusing only on WordPress which makes it easier for me to find what I am looking for. The only suggestion I could think of, and it is minor, is a profile page with a curation of posts I have voted up.
Thanks, Erik. That is a great idea. I’m already saving that information in your user meta data, so it shouldn’t be hard at all to implement. A great way for people to identify bookmarks! Thanks
You know, there are these cool things called “Post Formats” that come in handy sometimes.
That’s what I’m using : ) I accidently gave all post formats the link format title template. Oops.
Thanks for getting this started Brian. I think it is much needed in the WP community. I’ve been an HN’er for a while and WP gets little respect on there. Lots of PHP and WP haters in that community. It looks like you’ve gotten off to a great start here with the essential features.
The #1 thing I will suggest is to disable comment threading. Highly recommend reading this recent post by Jeff Atwood about why flat comments are better:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/12/web-discussions-flat-by-design.html
Thank you, Brad. My desire to build it was largely due to my own need. I’m glad I wasn’t alone.
Re: the Jeff Atwood article… I’ll need to spend some time digesting that. I’ve always been a fan of nested comments. But I promise to read it multiple times and challenge myself on it. Maybe I’ll change my mind. And if enough others agree w/ you, I can be persuaded that way too : )
Great initiative. I’m looking forward to seeing this evolve. To get some of the stuff off your list you may want to think about putting the theme on GitHub.
An issue (at least for me): Registration doesn’t seem to work right. Not receiving confirmation email, and login claims no account was created.
It would be awesome to create a bookmarklet to make it easier to submit posts to Post Status. Something along the lines of the Hacker News bookmarklet, which pre-populates the title and URL of the submit form. See http://ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html
Looks like you’re using Gravity Forms to power the submission form. In that case, you can easily allow pre-population of the Title and URL fields via query strings using the Gravity Forms Dynamic Population feature. See http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Using_Dynamic_Population
With this in place, it should be simple to create a bookmarklet for submitting posts.
Awesome, I’ll put some fields in there and let you know : ) Thanks for being so into Post Status Emzo!
You might want to take a look at this:)
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-custom-post-types/
For what reason? Links here are posts, and I already have a submission form that turns entries into pending posts. What Emzo is talking about it for a bookmarklet. Am I missing something?
I do use that plugin a lot though, for other projects : )
Currently it seems you can upvote post you submitted yourself. Should this be allowed?
It shouldn’t. I can put a conditional in the function to make sure to account for that. Thanks : )
Love to see some sort of colour indicator when you’ve up-voted a post.
I agree with @bradt. HN gives little love to WordPress, but mention DHH and you’re going to see thousands of people.
Love that there’s a WordPress resource like news.ycombinator, at long last!
Feedback: I find the font a little hard to read for some reason, I think it’s the thinness (this is in Chrome windows 7 64bit… looks miles better in FireFox), . The gravatar images are a bit big and inconsistent in size, which is distracting I think. I’d rather have them real small (or not at all), but that’s me, it’s subjective. I wonder how others feel about it.
Thanks for your feedback!
The 300 is a little tough for me to read too on my regular desktop. It looks fantastic on retina and high-ish res phones though. Perhaps I could load 400 on desktop and 300 elsewhere, and that would be easy with a media query, but I’m not sure it’s worth it for the extra load time of that font.
Might try switching to 400 all over for a bit and see if it bothers me
Font looks gorgeous indeed on high res mobile. MobileESP might do a decent job picking out desktop/mobile for alternative font loading. Although, 300 renders nicely in firefox on my system.
The user submission log/backend would be at the top of my list. I’d also recommend that if you’re going to curate content you need one of two things:
a) A clear editorial mandate outlining proper and improper submissions.
OR
b) A mechanism to briefly identify to the submitter why the article was “curated out”.
It’s tough to leave is as broad as “interesting for people that use, design, or develop with WordPress” and then curate out content based on unwritten criteria.
Andrew, I completely agree.
Actually, I know you submitted a post I didn’t publish. My reasoning was for the url, which breaks the WordPress trademark, by having the full name in the URL. I’ve been meaning to send you a note about that. I did already comment on their post to let them know. But I need a better policy on this, for sure.
Thanks for the feedback, and please keep submitting!
What? I didn’t actually know that was a restriction. Good thing you told me!
Ok, I’ve gone and moved the site over to wpdailydose.com and redirected all incoming traffic to that address. If you still think the submission valuable, let me know and I’ll resubmit.
Published! Thanks, Andrew. It’s just a point of education. Not easy to know at first. Thanks for making the change!
A few things beyond what you’ve outlined above:
1.) front-end AJAX style login
2.) ability to downvote in addition to upvote
3.) more granular categories (i.e. tutorials as opposed to general ‘development’)
4.) tags inside said categories (i.e. languages in tutorial, etc)
5.) streamlined home page
Thanks for the feedback.
I’m all for an AJAX login. I’m not so much into downvoting unless the down-voter has pretty high point totals. That’s what HN does as well. Cats and Tags need some work, for sure. I intend to do some review on this soon. Adding a langauge taxonomy sounds like a great idea. I’m currently using tags for the “audience”.
Re: the streamlined homepage… you have something particular in mind? I already know quite a bit I want to change about the design, but I’d be interested in what you see as streamlined.