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Remember when it used to be "Digg for X"? I kinda thought subreddits took a lot of the wind out of those sails.
by eli 13y ago
Remember when it used to be "Digg for X"?
I kinda thought subreddits took a lot of the wind out of those sails.
- DaveWalk 13y agoI think there is something about the HN layout that makes it feel more "homegrown", which has no ads or images at all. Kind of reminds me of an old-timey newspaper, or the WSJ "What's News." Not saying it can't be improved.
- krapp 13y agoIt is simple. I honestly like it a lot compared to what passes for forums nowadays. I'm still working on what I hope will be a decent open source clone in Laravel for the masses (though i don't doubt someone else also is and probably better.) A lot about hacker news could be improved, I think, like adding a JSON api by default and being able to control the depth level of comments. More importantly though, I think the simple format facilitates discussion a lot better than the noisy, avatar-riddled nightmares like phpbb, etc.