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Show HN: My Weekend Project -- A Clone of HN Built on Pligg

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Nice work. The smaller font on your site made me realize how much empty space there is on the right side of HN; never noticed that before.

Nice job on the design. I never was impressed with many Pligg sites because they were just so busy - lots of links to do lots of things. You've removed those extras and now the focus is on the content rather than doing things with the content.

A few suggestions/opinions:

  - Don't use a pure black font - maybe a dark dark gray
  - Drop the bold on the titles so it's easier on the eyes
  - text-decoration: none on the titles
  - Increase the line height for the title and secondary line

Good luck and keep up the good work.

Cool, you may have just set the standard for this, I can see re-implementing HN on a number of platforms / languages as a nice little real-world benchmark.

cool! will you release the theme?

Yea. I've taken a big break. I actually created that over the weekend a while back. I'll be kicking it into gear soon and getting it prepped for release

I know it's not identical; but I'm proud of it considering I've never taken a class in any programming language...

How did you find pligg as a platform? I'm not a programmer either, but am considering it for a 'beer money' idea I have.

(I will be leveraging the support of a friend with php / mysql experience. Would love to know more about your experience.)

Pligg was pretty easy to pick up; however, I've been using wordpress for a year (which is how I got my feet wet with some development items). Feel free to ping me with any questions!

Make sure you don't use their control panel editor to edit the header file; with multiple themes I've experienced situations where components get messed up.

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