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Totally de-centralised - your post on your local NNTP server, and it gets replicated across the NNTP mesh to all the other servers.
Built in threading... Actually HN is very similar to how a fairly busy newsgroup would look back in the day.
Weaknesses:
Posts used to take hours (sometimes days) to replicate across the whole mesh. Not so much nowadays tho.
Text only; no native support for rich media or Unicode (although some might see that as a Strength)
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Totally de-centralised - your post on your local NNTP server, and it gets replicated across the NNTP mesh to all the other servers.
Built in threading... Actually HN is very similar to how a fairly busy newsgroup would look back in the day.
Weaknesses:
Posts used to take hours (sometimes days) to replicate across the whole mesh. Not so much nowadays tho.
Text only; no native support for rich media or Unicode (although some might see that as a Strength)