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Is the only reason we're ok with this blatant design ripoff because OP is "one of us"? It's basically a clone with only the colour changed.

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HN's design was always just its own blatant ripoff of reddit anyway.

Here's what reddit looked like in February 2007 when HN launched: https://web.archive.org/web/20070202004002/http://reddit.com...

I'd be careful about making historical claims (let alone calling names like "blatant ripoff") unless you're sure you're on solid ground. pg gave Steve and Alexis the idea for Reddit and was their biggest influence. Reddit's and HN's designs are similar because they came from a common source. pg has in fact said what that source was: delicio.us/popular: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=903365

https://web.archive.org/web/20051220094850/http://del.icio.u...

The Reddit guys confirmed that in interviews. For example: https://mixergy.com/interviews/no-reddit-didnt-copy-digg-her...

Wrong. See dang's comment below. Reddit was heavily inspired by del.icio.us/popular (which I built back in 2004 or so)

There's really not a lot of ways to design a list of links, anyway.

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