Yeah, giving the article more charity, I see it as "Reddit for hackers" really adapting the aesthetics and norms of Reddit, so that hackers who are Redditors ha

Yeah, giving the article more charity, I see it as "Reddit for hackers" really adapting the aesthetics and norms of Reddit, so that hackers who are Redditors have a sense of comfort. Whereas if we'd designed from first priciples for hackers, we might arrive with something more irc-coded[0], perhaps. [0] Or my personal favourite, a MUD-style environment!