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I had a similar idea a while ago. Basically: a reddit/HN clone, but at any given time only one article can be commented on. That article is replaced every day

I had a similar idea a while ago. Basically: a reddit/HN clone, but at any given time only one article can be commented on. That article is replaced every day or every hour (whatever interval makes sense) with the highest-upvoted submission that doesn't have comments yet. The goal would be to encourage deeper discussion of matters, rather than fleeting posts. I have no idea if tree-style comments would be better than just a simple forum thread. A major part of the site would also be scrolling through all of the past articles, and being able to read all of the previous discussions.

notduncansmith 13y ago
Very interesting. Kinda like Woot (a daily deal site) for discussions. I like it! Could do a super-lean MVP implementation with Wordpress + Disqus or Branch.
Spittie 13y ago
That's a really nice idea, I'm sure such a site has the potential to generate very high-quality discussions about a topic. The only problem I see, is that the audience of HN (and Reddit even more) is big and has many different interests. It's very hard to cover those interests with only an article a day, and many might just lose interests after a bunch of days without anything interesting for them. Moving the cadence down would probably help, I think the sweet spot might be around 4/6 articles a day. I think I'd also try to bring down the number of submissions compared to HN. HN gets a lot of those, and it's good, but I don't think it would be healthy for such a site. I can think off limiting the number of submissions an account can do every day/week, limiting submissions to accounts older than X days (this is mostly to avoid spam) and/or having a pay-for-submission system (not real money, but karma or other similar things).
notduncansmith 13y ago
Update: I built this. http://threadaday.github.io/ http://threadaday.github.io/

notduncansmith 13y ago

Very interesting. Kinda like Woot (a daily deal site) for discussions. I like it! Could do a super-lean MVP implementation with Wordpress + Disqus or Branch.

Spittie 13y ago

That's a really nice idea, I'm sure such a site has the potential to generate very high-quality discussions about a topic. The only problem I see, is that the audience of HN (and Reddit even more) is big and has many different interests. It's very hard to cover those interests with only an article a day, and many might just lose interests after a bunch of days without anything interesting for them. Moving the cadence down would probably help, I think the sweet spot might be around 4/6 articles a day. I think I'd also try to bring down the number of submissions compared to HN. HN gets a lot of those, and it's good, but I don't think it would be healthy for such a site. I can think off limiting the number of submissions an account can do every day/week, limiting submissions to accounts older than X days (this is mostly to avoid spam) and/or having a pay-for-submission system (not real money, but karma or other similar things).

notduncansmith 13y ago

Update: I built this. http://threadaday.github.io/ http://threadaday.github.io/