DISQUS

Mathew's comments: Techmeme vs. Hacker News

  • Julian Baldwin · 1 year ago
    Great post. It would be interesting to see how well your conclusions hold up with more data. Techmeme is conversation driven and that is a lot different from voting. I wonder how this influences which content is popular on each service.
  • mathewi · 1 year ago
    That's a good point, Julian. The criteria that determine what moves
    up on Techmeme are different, and are mostly to do with writing and
    linking, whereas Hacker News is strictly direct voting (although you
    could argue that writing about a post and linking to it is a kind of
    vote as well).
  • Gabriel Weinberg · 1 year ago
    Check out http://hacker.watrcoolr.us

    It is an aggregation of (parts of) all of the above I put together last week.
  • mathewi · 1 year ago
    Thanks, Yegg -- that's pretty cool. I like the stripped-down
    interface as well. Nice job.