Show HN: Timeline-Based Citizen Journalism

(goingon.org)

28 points | by newman8r a day ago ago

4 comments

  • newman8r a day ago

    I'd love to get a little feedback on the project - right now all the events are populated with an LLM pipeline and a crawler, just to demonstrate how the site will look - but the quality of the timelines would ideally be much higher if there was more actual journalism involved.

    It's still fairly incomplete and I'm aware of a lot of the UX and functionality issues.

    • cced a day ago

      Very cool! Would you share/describe which tools you are using to build the pipeline?

  • allenu a day ago

    Very cool to see this implemented. I had a similar idea to build a timeline-based site like this where people could create their own timelines to share, and not just for journalism.

    One idea I had that you might be thinking about already is making it possible to create different versions of timelines. That is, if I see a timeline, I could fork it and make my own copy that I could edit, i.e. remove some entries if it I'm trying to highlight key events or add my own observed events. That way, you wouldn't necessarily need to reach a consensus on a specific timeline, but you could still trace the lineage of different versions of timelines.

    In terms of UX, I thought something similar to https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/ would be a good starting point to allow for lots of information on the page.

    Looking forward to seeing how this site develops! Best of luck.

    • newman8r a day ago

      I love the idea of forking timelines, thanks for the feedback