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Re:Why Paul? Why Did You Change It? (About Hacker News) by davidw on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @04:07PM (#42785)
Presumably existing users are smart enough to track another site.

It has some downsides too, such as overlapping content, but it might not have been a bad idea.

Re:Why Paul? Why Did You Change It? (About Hacker News) by simen on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @04:19PM (#42790)
It doesn't take much intelligence to follow two websites, but it does take some more effort.

Also, it's perhaps that the site now caters more to the target audience than to the thing that unites them (Y combinator/startups).