It can work, but I think it's harder to scale to something the size of HN without losing some of the important properties HN has.
For example, I think it's useful that on balance the top few comments and their discussion are likely to be interesting, and the last few comments are unlikely to be interesting.
It can work, but I think it's harder to scale to something the size of HN without losing some of the important properties HN has.
For example, I think it's useful that on balance the top few comments and their discussion are likely to be interesting, and the last few comments are unlikely to be interesting.