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I don't understand what "Top posts" are in relation to your goals - they just seem to be rather random links to other web URLs.

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The top posts are just interesting news stories skimmed from HN. Full disclosure: I worked on the site with reddog9287.

Okay, I see that now. I don't understand the inclusion of it though - the main thing that will happen by including a list of "interesting news stories" would be that the user leaves your site quicker b/c they found something interesting. It's an odd choice IMO - if someone wants "news" links, they already know where to go find those, no? By putting it prominently on your home page, you've decreased your focus as a "Dribbble for software devs" and made it "The left side of our page is Dribbbble-like, and the right-side is where you can find some cool links." Which is fine - just understand that you are diminishing your brand/impact when you do that.

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