While I don't want to belittle this accomplishment. The magic of Hacker News is the community that is on it. As a piece of technology NH isn't all that impressi

While I don't want to belittle this accomplishment. The magic of Hacker News is the community that is on it. As a piece of technology NH isn't all that impressive. This kind of feels a little over-engineered. Edit: To downvoters, care to explain why I am wrong? The project is extremely well done. It is impressive in its documentation and execution. But in the real world done, launched, and with traction is more important than being well engineered. The existing implementations of upvote style sites work just fine. When Digg.com -- one of the first upvote style boards to go mainstream -- launched in 2004 dozens of copy cats came up. Few succeeded. Why? Community. Also, we are moving away from the decentralized web, unfortunately. For instance, few people run their own Wordpress blog now. Most use Blogger or Medium. I don't see how projects like this fit in in that world. Now, if rather than be a HN clone he added the ability for people to create and moderate their own boards. That would get my upvote.