News aggregator with comment section. Real forums operate in different way which pushes discussions in a different way Your definition is so general that majo

News aggregator with comment section. Real forums operate in different way which pushes discussions in a different way Your definition is so general that majority of things could be considered as a forum, yet it aint, thus this definition is not so useful The biggest difference is that once something drops from front page on hn, then discussio s is dead unlike on forums where you can send thread to the top