I think you've filtered out some of the best stuff, I personally really like all the ask stuff.

Having one image of the site being linked too on the left with the content on the right or something might make it easier to skim the content, and right now you have a bunch of html mark-up in the content which of course makes it difficult to read.

The number of votes and comments I think is also key.

Me too. I don't mind the crunch stuff being out but I enjoy the Ask stuff more than probably anything.

Also, trying to make this more like digg (with previews and taglines) does not help. I prefer the old reddit style that HN has today (and I don't prefer the new reddit style of reddit).

@ScottWhigham , I fetch the entire page into the rss. The main idea was to be able to read the linked sites from my rss reader itself instead of clicking and going to the websites indivdually.

That's a great idea - dunno why I didn't think of that. Thanks :)

@pedalpete - thanks for the feeddback. I will try to see if I can filter out the html markup to clean things up.

The y! pipes allows you to clone a pipe - feel free to clone & hack it up further (i.e. change the filtering rules etc.) according to your needs

I personally like the ask stuff.

I like the pipes idea alot though, can see it's use.

I used to read the "Ask *" topics, but I did not see too much in it (your mileage may vary :-) ), hence I am filtering it.

Y! pipes allows you to clone pipes, feel free to clone and change the rules to suit your needs.