[fourstar]

Is it just me or is anyone else finding it weird viewing a thread on Discourse from HN? It's basically the same thing IMO (although obviously this is a Discourse site announcement). I just hope this doesn't become a "thing" as it's just essentially same as linking to a forum post.

[eurleif]

HN sometimes links to reddit, too. Is there something wrong with linking to a forum post if it's a compelling forum post?

[ChuckMcM]

I just thought it was a way for the Discourse guys to get people here to look at a 'real' thread in Discourse to get a feel for the system. If it is compelling enough to get someone to register and comment its a double benefit.

That said, the annoying ones for me are links to Google+ things, the URL says "google.com" but the content is various.

[Kerrick]

That's one of the very few things HN should borrow from reddit: use subdomains in the URLs, so we could see (for example) that it's from plus.google.com.