Ask HN: SlinkSet or Pligg?

The biggest difference is that Slinkset is hosted whereas you have to host Pligg yourself, so Slinkset is going to be a lot easier to get up and running quickly. With Pligg you'll have full control over the source code, but we're pretty proud of how much control you get at Slinkset through an easy to use web interface. With this in mind it makes a lot of sense to at least try Slinkset first.

If you choose Slinkset and have any issues or ideas, we'd love to help out. Please feel free to email me: brett at slinkset.

I spent the morning setting up both: Slinkset: http://news.ryanspoon.com Pligg: http://www.rankible.com

There are benefits to both - namely, Pligg is more robust... but I actually quite like the layout of Slinkset better.

A couple questions about slinkset though for Brett -

1. Can I remove / edit feeds? 2. I really want to be able to add AdSense and would gladly rotate in a % for you... 3. I want better customization of the header / footer

Thoughts?

Having tried Pligg for a while, I can tell you SPAM is a huge problem. Couple of weeks after the site went live, I started getting all these registrations from bots that I had to spend 30 minutes daily to clean that up... ultimately, I had to disable new user registrations, which kills the whole thing..

not sure about SlinkSet though...