For the last couple years I've wondered if people would like something that combined the sleek, text-focused front end of HN with the ability to make subreddit-

For the last couple years I've wondered if people would like something that combined the sleek, text-focused front end of HN with the ability to make subreddit-like moderated communities. The "boringness" of the front end would keep the riff-raff out - why would they bother when Reddit et al give them a much bigger and more meme-addled audience - and it'd be more like the second coming of old-school Usenet that so many older techies seem to long for. If only I were a software engineer rather than a data scientist.