… i said another flavor and im clearly commenting on the driving factor behind engagement. But yeah it has threads.

Frankly Reddit is more like HN if it had feeds for every thing known to man and a few million more users. It started out almost exactly the same way as HN is right now, except for somewhat better site usability. You eventually outgrow the dev community and have to start catering to normal people and the results are predictable.

The senseless outrage on this site sometimes measures up completely.