> Anyone have any ideas on what could cause a mass shift? I have a few, but basically if you keep the UI simple, support multiple communication paradigms (e.g.

> Anyone have any ideas on what could cause a mass shift? I have a few, but basically if you keep the UI simple, support multiple communication paradigms (e.g. not just reddit/hn style, but also live optionally-threaded conversations, more forum-like approaches, blogs+comments, microblogging, etc), and make it highly configurable (e.g. voting rules, moderation rules, threading rules, etc) I think people will come running. Bonus points if it's easily self-hostable, can be federated, can be encrypted, and/or can self-delete/rollover old messages.