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    Community Guidelines
    B bean
    9 Aug 2024, 18:16

    Community Guidelines


    Hi! How are you? Hope you're well! Welcome to the OpenBeta Forums!

    Our goal here is to make information and communication accessible to everyone in the climbing community. We want to make sure that these forums serve as a welcoming and safe space for everybody to share their passion about climbing, build connections, and feel like they belong. We want this to be a fun place to be!

    To do that, let's lay out a few ground rules that I think we can all agree on.

    Conversation should generally remain on the topic of climbing


    This includes no politics, no explicit content, no personal drama, etc. This also encompass the principle that you should try to make sure your post goes under the right category (e.g. don't share pictures of your recent climbing trip in General, that goes under Pics and trips).

    Off-topic posts or replies may be removed by the moderation team, but we'll generally just try to nudge the conversation back on topic.

    No harassment, discrimination, or abuse of any kind


    Don't be rude, don't insult or talk down to others, and obviously no racism, homophobia, or any other gross things like that.

    This also means "it's just a joke" doesn't fly as an excuse. Text as a medium doesn't convey tone and sarcasm well, so keep the tone more towards the "friendly and helpful" side of things to avoid potential misinterpretation.

    Improve the discussion


    We want to hear your voice! We want you to contribute and discuss and engage with others, and that means what you're saying should contribute to the discussion. As before, if your post is off topic or being rude to someone, that doesn't add to the conversation. If you have a criticism, make sure you're phrasing it in a helpful way and not attacking the person whose idea you're criticizing.

    Another part of this is that we don't allow AI-generated content. Why should anyone bother to read content that somebody didn't even bother to write?

    Self-promotion is allowed (in moderation)


    If you make climbing products or climbing content, we want to support you! Just 2 things to keep in mind: (1) make sure to post it under the right category and (2) add the self promo tag. Products will generally go under General Climbing and content would probably go under either General Climbing (for guides and such) or Pics and trips (for vlogs, photography, etc).

    That said, obviously don't be obnoxious about it. Making the same post repeatedly or spamming caps or emoji will receive a warning or a temporary ban, depending on the severity.

    Report problems, don't engage


    If you see somebody posting off-topic, being rude, or otherwise breaking the rules and causing problems, please don't engage. Just flag the post to send a message to the mod team.

    Enforcement and appeals


    At the end of the day, we don't have a huge moderation team or any complicated system of rules. The gist of this all is "just don't be a jerk." The moderation team is made of people who are volunteering their time and doing their best to act in good faith to make these forums a fun place to be.

    The moderation team uses these guidelines to act at their discretion and we're not going to engage with rules lawyering. If you do have a problem with any mod's decision or behavior, go ahead and make a post here. You won't be able to see the post once it's submitted, but the mod team will be able to see it and review whatever concern or report you've submitted.


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    Why can I read the entire article on this site?
    J julian
    7 Jun 2024, 13:53

    This site works by looking at "lists of articles" and importing them. Usually, those lists only contain a short summary or teaser.

    Secondly, while there is definitely appeal to maintaining a single place to read news, there is also merit in driving traffic to the original sites for a number of reasons (viewership metrics, ad revenue, etc.)

    There is one exception, however... if a site does expose an RSS feed, and that feed contains the entire article content, then this site will try to post the entire article.


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    The Changelog
    D devnull
    6 Jun 2024, 03:15

    4 June 2024

    • Started site, added a number of publishers:
      • @IFSC
      • @climbing
      • @climber-magazine
      • @UK-Climbing

    5 June 2024

    • Added additional news publishers and three video publishers
      • @Hard-Is-Easy
      • @HowNOT2
      • @Gripped
      • @EpicTV
    • Updated source URL for Gripped to this page instead of the news archive

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    I'm a publisher and I'd like to get in touch!
    J julian
    5 Jun 2024, 15:29

    Great! I'd love to work more closely with publishers directly so that climbing news is disseminated more throughly!

    Please leave me a message on the Comments & Feedback category, or send me an email at julian [at] devnull [dot] land.


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    I'd like you to add a site to the list
    J julian
    5 Jun 2024, 15:28

    If you have a suggestion for a climbing-related news outlet or video channel you'd like to see tracked on this site, please let me know via the Comments & Feedback category.


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    Technical stuff — how does it work?
    J julian
    4 Jun 2024, 15:23

    Since most sites do not have their own RSS feeds, it was fairly difficult to create an aggregator quickly.

    However, I use a service called FetchRSS that allows me to turn any site's content into an RSS feed.

    This site is built on NodeBB, and uses the RSS plugin to consume those feeds to create content.

    NodeBB is also connected to the Fediverse, and so all captured content is automatically federated out to that social network as well.


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    Why did you start this site?
    J julian
    4 Jun 2024, 15:19

    I found that it was difficult to keep up with climbing-related news as each individual outlet tended to only post content onto their sites and on traditional social media (e.g. Facebook, X, etc.) but not on any platforms that I frequent.

    Secondly, I wanted to expose climbing-related content to the fediverse, which I consider to be the next generation of social media.

    Back in the day, most news outlets maintained what was called an RSS feed, and readers could subscribe to them from their reader of choice. For a number of reasons (technical hurdles, monetizations, etc.), RSS has fallen out of favour, so most people no longer have the ability to pick and choose which sites to subscribe to.

    This site aims to address this shortcoming. Most, if not all, of the sites aggregated here do not maintain their own RSS feeds any longer, or never did.


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