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I came to Hacker News to get away from Reddit. I'm not even a programmer, I just got sick of the deviation to the norm. Also, what would really be the point. It

• nathan_f77 15y ago
  The real point for me is that Reddit is a far better website - it's just nicer to use. If not a subreddit, is there any reason why Hacker News couldn't use a forked version of the open source Reddit code?
  • mindcrime 15y ago
    If not a subreddit, is there any reason why Hacker News couldn't use a forked version of the open source Reddit code? For one, pg had created a new Lisp dialect (Arc) and wanted something to use it on; and - IIRC - HN came along before the Reddit code went OSS anyway. Although my memory could be betraying me on that latter point...
  • vorbby 15y ago
    Is it really better to use? HN is incredibly simple, and everything works as expected. There's a few UI quirks with reddit that I don't particularly like. For example: I don't think it's obvious to a new user how to submit a story. Second (and this might be a personal preference) clicking the reddit logo in the header should take you to the main page for that subreddit, not reddit.com. Particularly when said subreddit has a customized logo.
    • pkamb 15y ago
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