> You can respond, anyway. ;-) Well, since you asked ;-) I'd agree with you, more or less. I don't find it horrendous necessarily. But I find the focus to be

> You can respond, anyway. ;-) Well, since you asked ;-) I'd agree with you, more or less. I don't find it horrendous necessarily. But I find the focus to be far more on the articles than the conversation. Most of my comments are just me screaming into the void. Its a different business model though, HN isn't trying to increase your session time as much as possible. I find the UI to actually discourage conversation and interaction.