Good Point regarding the source of the articles. I totally hear where you are coming from. Regarding the colleges and universities, they actually post these articles to publicize the research and I think reposting them helps both people who are looking for a centralized site for all the good news and the educational institution/researchers.

The plan in to write everything (in house) in the future but for right now it really helps with costs to repost other articles from colleges, universities, and journals. I have written a few of the articles myself and like how they have turned out, so the plan will be to write more and more until everything is custom and nothing is reposted. Thank you.

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Great idea! How will you pay for everything? Especially if it grows?

Background images make it hard to read the headlines

How are you planning to monetize this / keep the lights on?

I am mostly interested in the micro reactors and the molten salt reactors. You know, the ones that physically can't "melt down" and destroy a continent for generations to come and the generations to come.

Anytime people hear nuclear they think chernobyl or japan. These were mild compared to what one of those full sized plants are capable of. People just dont know we are moving away from something of that scale and type.

EXACTLY

Can't believe there's a website dedicated to all things me.

Won’t this just cause joy and happiness around the world, though?

can I get the shade photo in your post?

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Just need to be careful with something like that, as depending on how the moderation works, it's easy for articles which are actually horrifying if you think about them for more than 5 seconds to sneak in, and next thing you know it's /r/UpliftingNews in website form

TY

See: https://letsencrypt.org/

Do you have a github buddy? Btw thank you for making this website, nice work

How do you farm and aggregate content?

I hate to be a downer, regarding a project whose focus is on positive news, but this appears to be entirely built on copyright infringement, and plagiarism. I've only spot-checked a few articles, but those were all tagged "By Ghost", but selecting a unique sentence and searching for that always gave an exact match on other sources.

If you're not writing your own text, you're going to face serious legal issues. Even if you provide adequate attribution (naming the actual author), posting articles that were published elsewhere without the author's explicit permission is copyright infringement.

Does this have an RSS feed? 😁

Entirely agree.

What a lot of people also don’t realize is that free (as in “freedom” and “beer”) software runs most of the world. The proprietary stuff like Microsoft and Apple systems are all at the consumer level, which is dwarfed by the number of Linux-based machines out there. And Linux is entirely free! No built-in tracking, ads, monetization, subscriptions, etc.

The phrase “if it’s free, you’re the product” is excellent advice when dealing with proprietary tech. To my knowledge, OP’s site is not free (as in “freedom”), so it’s warranted to be wary. As you mentioned, there are several ways to test OP’s claims and it seems they check out, as far as verifiable.

But it’s also important to keep in mind that there are millions of individuals across the world who just want to do good for others through contributing free works to society with no strings attached!

Yeah but subreddits can quickly and easily stray from their intended purpose and as soon as a post hits r/all and you get an influx of the average reddit user, you can bet it'll be a full time job moderating it to keep it from turning into r/orphancrushingmachine like r/upliftingnews. I can completely understand wanting to have a curated website separate from Reddit

Honestly you could go for an optional subscription of some sort and make it dirt cheap like $3/month. I know many people (like myself) want to support this but would rather do it monthly, and if you offer it in the app non-intrusively with just a single reminder then you'd probably get the exposure to make those $3/month subscriptions add up. Maybe add a couple perks that wouldn't seem unfair like dark mode or priority when submitting articles or something. Giving attribution to who submitted the article would probably also boost submissions if you go that route.

Also I'm a software developer and would love to volunteer my free time to bring it to Android or implement features if you need more assistance. It's a great idea that I can get behind. Just give me a DM if you're interested

It's literally only science related?

It's always healthy to be suspicious, but some people just like to do good things. And it looks like OP is doing just that. It'd be hard to lie about trackers and ads when there are so many tools to find them. Someone already found a tracker OP missed and he acknowledged he missed it and that it will be removed.

This might very well be something you've already thought of, and it doesn't look like there any such articles on your site so far, but if you're thinking about expanding, I'd be very careful of excluding all r/OrphanCrushingMachine type stories. I.e., stories that sounds uplifting and happy, such as "grade school student pays off the lunch debt for their entire class" without addressing the bleak reality that our society has put children into debt.

Because half of the posts on there are just r/orphancrushingmachine posts in disguise.