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Isn't reddit kind of hacker news for all interests?

• jsmoov 16y ago
  Ah. Let me rephrase again: it's " a Hacker News for specific interests"
  • JoachimSchipper 16y ago
    Reddit has subreddits. Some of them even stick to a topic.
    • mvanveen 16y ago
      I think what's neat about this guy's approach is he's morphed subreddits into a fully complemented, distributed algebra by letting you take intersections and unions of different "subcategories" of discussion. I suppose one could could argue "isn't any interface with tagging basically doing this?" To be fair, del.icio.us and the like usually let you combine tags in some way, but none of them get out of your way enough or have sufficiently simple voting mechanisms to be a really nice way to grok news. None of them implement a nice comment system, either. This is like having your cake and eating it too! If only I didn't have to register an account to comment...
• Swannie 16y ago
  I'd rather have a nice clean interface where I can filter relevant articles than go near that cluttered rats nest of links called Reddit. So far so good. Concentrate a bit more on the filtering/finding new topics a bit more. You could become whatsupedia.com to crowd-rated news sites as Quora is to Answers.com.