Why isn't hacker news a subreddit on reddit.com?

Re:Why isn't hacker news a subreddit on reddit.com? by theThirdMan on Friday October 21, 2011 @03:04PM (#3141167)

I came to Hacker News to get away from Reddit. I'm not even a programmer, I just got sick of the deviation to the norm. Also, what would really be the point. It would be akin to having a slashdot or digg subreddit.

There's no harm in creating a Hacker News subbreddit. I just don't think it would be too popular.

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Re:Why isn't hacker news a subreddit on reddit.com? by nathan_f77 on Friday October 21, 2011 @03:08PM (#3141190)

The real point for me is that Reddit is a far better website - it's just nicer to use.

If not a subreddit, is there any reason why Hacker News couldn't use a forked version of the open source Reddit code?

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Re:Why isn't hacker news a subreddit on reddit.com? by vorbby on Friday October 21, 2011 @03:20PM (#3141233)

Is it really better to use? HN is incredibly simple, and everything works as expected. There's a few UI quirks with reddit that I don't particularly like. For example: I don't think it's obvious to a new user how to submit a story. Second (and this might be a personal preference) clicking the reddit logo in the header should take you to the main page for that subreddit, not reddit.com. Particularly when said subreddit has a customized logo.

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Re:Why isn't hacker news a subreddit on reddit.com? by pkamb on Friday October 28, 2011 @05:52PM (#3170251)

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Re:Why isn't hacker news a subreddit on reddit.com? by mindcrime on Friday October 21, 2011 @03:19PM (#3141230)

If not a subreddit, is there any reason why Hacker News couldn't use a forked version of the open source Reddit code?

For one, pg had created a new Lisp dialect (Arc) and wanted something to use it on; and - IIRC - HN came along before the Reddit code went OSS anyway. Although my memory could be betraying me on that latter point...

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