Hi HN, I made this as an experiment to see if a older style (PHPBB-alike) format would enhance readability of posts on Hacker News. To me the present style re

Hi HN, I made this as an experiment to see if a older style (PHPBB-alike) format would enhance readability of posts on Hacker News. To me the present style represents a discussion room in which members form nested cliques, which means that a few comments are well heard while many others are ignored. Voting exacerbates the effect, as disagreeable comments are often pushed down or hard to read (light gray text). Finally, due to the tree-style presentation, it's difficult to determine the context for a reply when there is a lot of nesting levels. The classic forum style, in contrast, simply shows posts in chronological order, along with the reply-tree visible inline, so context is easy to determine. With no votes or light gray text, I find it significantly easier to follow the conversation; YMMV. The present implementation is rather slow as the API isn't built for the display format I'm using. Give it a sec to load :) I'm currently working on adding reply/submit functionality. You'll see dummy replies to this post while I get that working. Thanks for taking a look!