> Are we saying that all social media platforms are the same? Nobody is saying that. > Are there teams working on the hacker news platform trying to tweak the

> Are we saying that all social media platforms are the same? Nobody is saying that. > Are there teams working on the hacker news platform trying to tweak the algorithms to drive addictive user engagement? Driving addictive user engagement has little to do with being a social media platform, see Netflix for example. > Is the sorting algorithm not a matter of public record? Again, that’s irrelevant. Twitter is more open-source than HN.