I very much like the presentation of hackernews when it comes to understanding and making sense of the discussions quickly. It is a lot easier than reading pages of forums to get the main ideas of the discussions since the top comments and active discussions bubble to the top.
I wanted to run a site for discussing and sharing information that are useful for people working in techparks and the format that immediately clicked in my mind was the hacknews style. I began writing my own clone based on the work of people from hackerschool but it lacked the polish and look to make the people trust and even sign up, I had send invites to few of my friends to try but the turnaround rate was quite low.
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