I like the Google News approach that algorithmically groups together related stories as follows: Show the most popular story (or 2 or 3), then provide a link t

I like the Google News approach that algorithmically groups together related stories as follows: Show the most popular story (or 2 or 3), then provide a link that states "See all 143 related stories." The hard part on a community news site is how to deal with discussion. I think a neat way to do it would provide a choice to see discussion by submission or merged discussion of all related submissions. The benefits of doing it like this would be as follows: 1) Declutter the front page of related stories 2) Still make it easy to see all related stories with just one extra click 3) For stories with little discussion, makes it easy to see discussion on all related stories as well 4) For stories with lots of discussion, the traditional way of discussing around 1 story only is a great option, to keep discussion more focused (less overwhelming). Downside: I suspect this would be difficult to implement and therefore buggy - especially how the algorithm decides to group things. The Google News algorithm does a pretty good job.