[ScottWhigham]

I always think it's ridiculous when I hear "It's the new reddit" and then see what basically amounts to a Wordpress blog layout. Reddit, digg, HN were all partly successful because of their layout, not in spite of it. I don't want to scroll past the meta of every article today just to see what you have; I want a list of what's happening that is sorted/controlled by the community. And the less images, the better. I like reddit in that I can turn off the images so that I can fit 17-20 article headlines on a page w/o scrolling.

Ugh.

[tensor]

This comment seems very out of context. Perhaps you've mistaken the wordpress blog for the site it talks about?

The site: http://www.hubski.com/

[Dramatize]

I was playing around with a UI for a HN/Reddit style site: http://beta.dragthelake.org/index.php

[hendzen]

I would say that HN is successful in spite of its layout.

[Dramatize]

I think it's perfect. It's easy to see if there are any new posts (and it's clear which ones you have visited).

It's also not going to attract much attention if you have it open at work.

[pbreit]

I think if you're going to make the "in spite of" argument (on any site), you have to bring some solid supporting evidence.