Interestingly, the "warrens and plazas" view can be seen as a critique of reddit-like designs. The front page of HN and the search are plaza-like, but their ab

Interestingly, the "warrens and plazas" view can be seen as a critique of reddit-like designs. The front page of HN and the search are plaza-like, but their ability to summarize across posts is poor: @dang posts comments with similar threads, and that's it. The comment threads are warren-like, but there is no continuity and little linking between them. Reddit itself is perhaps a little better at this than HN, even though it still breaks down at scale. Small communities are more warren-like, with the front page being less important and the wikis and pinned threads providing more long-term structure.