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Comment by DigitalSea

11 years ago

I have seen a lot of these Github repositories that accept anything showing up on HN. My favourite one of late was the crowdsourced homepage for a guy named Rob Ashton: https://github.com/robashton/crowdsourcedhomepage - Definitely one of the weirder trends in development lately I have seen.

Would be fantastic if someone put the effort in making this guy a really great website, with amazing UI/UX, and a great backend.

Just for those people who can never find an idea, but want to do something ;-)

  • Please no. Doing so would be a disservice to humanity. This is amazingly beautiful as is.

So basically, crowdsourcing produces terribly ugly things like old GeoCities and MySpace pages. Which, I think we already knew from the history of GeoCities and MySpace.