Hacker News Reader

I've seen this quite a bit recently. It's a hack but it's a quick way to get a public-facing issue tracker out there.

Are there any better solutions for getting a tracker set up easily where non-contributors can raise bugs and discuss feature requests?

http://launchpad.net has a bug tracker and a blueprints function.

Can only say one thing about Launchpad, "ew". It has a horrible UI.

Speaking as someone who has to use it everyday, the horrible UI is the least of its problems.

Care to elaborate a bit on that?

One pitfall of open source is that it's sometimes made by people smarter than its users for people smarter than its users.

Yeah, the UI is pretty terrible. The only worse UI I can think of is github's.

It's actually a pretty nice idea. Since the wiki and issues tabs are already optional features, perhaps the "Code" tab should be optional too.

Yea, i was a bit interested by that too. Probably already use it internally for other projects, and if they've integrated their internal tools with the GitHub API, it's a no-brainier.