[randomchars]

Is this real or just a weird joke?

[krapp]

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[randomchars]

I didn't even think to check for comments in the page source, thank you.

But it's far from obvious. One of the cloned services listed is Pinterest. Have a look at these [1][2][3] sites. All three of them were made by Hungarian companies and [1] was financed by one of the largest media companies in the country[4]. So something like Zkombinator is not that big a step from what is already going on.

[1]: http://www.bigin.hu/

[2]: http://tuzd.be/

[3]: http://kirak.at/

[4]: http://www.sanomamedia.hu/sanobp_english/

[krapp]

Sure, but still calling it "Zkombinator" is a bit on the nose.

[listaware]

On german keyboards the Y & Z are swapped around, so I guess that's where that bit came from. And kombinator is the German for combinator I guess.

[Jedi_Vik]

I agree. It threw me in for a bit of a curve-ball.