I'm fairly new around here (lurked for a couple months, finally made an account last week) but one of the things that I really like about HN is the no frills ap

I'm fairly new around here (lurked for a couple months, finally made an account last week) but one of the things that I really like about HN is the no frills approach. It would be extremely easy for a community of hackers to get carried away with adding features to a site (as the plethora of HN-based "Hello Worlds" demonstrate) but I enjoy that the site itself has remained "raw". I don't think either of your ideas are bad, but I personally would vote for the "if it ain't broke..." approach in this case. EDIT:typos