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why would you create separate site and not subreddit where you can get way more traction from existing users?..

• eddsh1994 4y ago
  An HN clone, not reddit. But one huge perk of not having a subreddit is you don't have the mass of users come from other subreddits where the standards of comments tend to be more copypasta troll-like than HN.
  • afandian 4y ago
    There's also the risk of not getting that halo effect and passing footfall. There was something similar a few years back, upvote.pub: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16273171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16273171 I don't know the reasons for it folding, but I imagine it was difficult to sustain.
  • riku_iki 4y ago
    > users come from other subreddits where the standards of comments tend to be more copypasta troll-like than HN. I somehow didn't notice this on relevant subs (machinelearning, singularity, etc)