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I think Slash supported all that already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(CMS) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(CMS) My point being, HN tried (and IMH

I think Slash supported all that already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(CMS) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(CMS) My point being, HN tried (and IMHO succeeded at it) to be something different and these little things might have helped to become what it is. If we keep moving to support all of Slash's features, HN might be doomed to become Slashdot.

krapp 11y ago
Are we really "moving to support all of Slash's features" with folding comments? It's hardly a radical feature - most comment systems support it in some form, and many users are already running plugins for it on HN. I don't see anyone arguing that the Hacker News Enhancement Suite is threatening to doom us all. Vouching up dead comments was potentially a much more volatile change but it seems to have worked out for the positive. I also remember people complaining that Show HN was killing the site literally on the day it started, yet it seems to have become an accepted part of the culture. What makes Hacker News unique is its connection to YCombinator and Paul Graham. Without that, it's little more than a poorly designed Reddit clone.