I really find it fascinating that people are scrambling to make Reddit replacements. First off, A) there's no guarantee the community will ever abandon Reddit,

I really find it fascinating that people are scrambling to make Reddit replacements. First off, A) there's no guarantee the community will ever abandon Reddit, even if yours is better, and B) why are we mimicking what Reddit did, and succeeded greatly at? Of all places, I would think that Hacker News, a community of start-ups, would recognize that you don't often succeed by simply trying to improve on what some other company did already. You succeed by doing something completely new, and filling a gap that wasn't previously recognized. Facebook didn't replace Myspace because they tried to do what Myspace did, but better; they won because they took an entirely different concept, built it, and eventually evolved into the behemoth we have today. Reddit didn't surpass Digg in content aggregation intentionally; they had a different community, with a different focus, and an entirely different strategy that eventually succeeded. Over the years, I've gone from getting my web content through AOL portals --> blogs/geocities --> news sites --> StumbleUpon --> Digg --> reddit, and I've been on there for 5 years now. I'm definitely ready for something new. I guess what I'm trying to say here is... if you want to make "the next reddit", you won't do it by trying to be BETTER than reddit. It's time for the next wave of content delivery, in whatever form that may be.