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by Joker_vD 921 days ago
You get the list of trending articles, you can go read the article itself, you can look at the discussions, and you can also get a comment box to add to those discussions. Oh, and you can up- and downvote articles and comments.

What else do you really need, honestly? It's like reddit, only with actually readable comment threads.

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Personally, I'd like some more formatting options:

1. inline code formatting, e.g. Markdown's `place code here` with backticks)

2. direct links, or some sort of footnotes system. I prefer to thoroughly source posts, especially when it's either rare/obscure knowledge or when it's an opinion/viewpoint that goes against the "hive mind" or however else you want to call the "mass opinion" on here - it's easier and more productive to debate on sourced facts than on unsubstantiated claims.

3. an actual quote indicator, just as Reddit does with lines that begin with > - it would be a waaay better way to follow visually in lengthy posts

4. actually working ordered and unordered lists. Markdown's syntax is bad, but anything is an improvement over nothing.