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Hacker News rips off Reddit or so Mashable claims...
Don't know whether this is a repost or not but... What do you say people? Far as I can see, HN looks different, simpler and conceptually it doesn't try to include everything on this earth...
- Torn 15y agoQuite funny seeing as Reddit was YC-incubated and was clearly inspired by HN
- bleakgadfly 15y agoWikipedia says HN was created in 2007 and Reddit in 2005.
- steventruong 15y agoWhile Reddit was part of YC, it launched in 2005. HN didn't launch till 2007.
- bradleyland 15y agoAnd Reddit was created in 2005. And Digg was created in 2004. And Slashdot was created in 1997. And Usenet was created in 1980. And BBS was created in ... I don't quite know. Some time in the 70s? Establishing who came first is kind of missing the point. Mashable makes the mistake of assuming that because something looks similar, it is a "rip-off". The content is what makes a discussion site, not the layout or the software. HN can't be a "rip-off" of Reddit, because they were established for completely separate reasons.
- steventruong 15y agoI hope you're not trying to imply that I was saying that. I was merely directly responding to the poster above
- gazrogers 15y agoI just checked the wayback machine and Reddit appears first in mid 2005, HN in Feb 2007 (though the article with id 1 here seems to have been posted in October 2006). It's fair to say that Reddit wasn't inspired by HN.
- edd 15y agoThis 'rip off' was much more evident before Reddit got big (the first time) and redesigned the voting buttons. Before that the designs were almost identical.
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- jacquesm 15y agoMaybe someone should tell mashable about slashdot?
- EwanToo 15y agoWell... it does, doesn't it? But reddit obviously aren't bothered (and give you all the tools to build your own reddit), so why should anyone else be? https://github.com/reddit/ https://github.com/reddit/
- rogermugs 15y agojust a very very focused version of reddit. suffice it to say HN does not have a NSFW section, or a very popular WTF section....
- bdfh42 15y agoThe News (Social bookmarking) pages on our web site are pretty similar as well. Clean minimalist layouts with similar functionality are going to look similar whatever the style influences - well apart from the CSS.
- navs 15y agoa certain nerdy demographic Use of the word 'nerd' from a tech blog?
- nddrylliog 15y agoWhy not? They use it at the congress... Feels insulting every time, but it seems to be common practice.
- xlance 15y agoReddit is open source and was a Y combinator startup.I don't see the problem here.
- webwanderings 15y agoI like both, it doesn't give a sh* about social networking, doesn't emphasize users over content, which is good.
- rsanchez1 15y agoPeter Pachel probably stopped by recently and noticed how much the comments are becoming like Reddit, and felt compelled to make the connection and post it on Mashable.