Am I the only one who despises the gamification and absurd elitism present in this product? I've neven been fond of exclusivity, and am of the opinion that good content ecosystems are resilient and will surface superior content regardless of the number of people present. The "tragedy of the commons" argument is a total straw man, and if anything is erroneous. HN thrives <i>because</i> of the volume of people and diversity of content.<p>Good content is good content, irrespective of who discovered it or how much notoriety they have. It's not the prerogative of the site to make arbitrary decisions about who ought to be able engage in the discussion or who ought to be able to submit content. Such draconian, "karma"-based restriction will likely preclude the submission of a lot of great stuff and will make it more difficult for newcomers to engage with the site.<p>HN is pretty damn good at surfacing interesting content. Restricting submissions and users in an arbitrary manner is not the way to improve news aggregation.
I'm getting weird font rendering on this site:<p><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1325900/Capture1.PNG" rel="nofollow">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1325900/Capture1.PNG</a><p>Windows 8 x64, Chrome 26.0.1410.64 m.
You may want to reconsider the "top 15" thing, and even the pages of content thing, if you're trying to fill the longform niche. I don't know what direction you'd necessarily want to go in, but I do know that the form factor you're using right now is the same one that gave rise to the problem you're trying to solve.
Nice, though I seem to have a font-rendering issue on the site, as they appear rather aliased: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/173YQ1Z.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/173YQ1Z.png</a> (Windows 7, Chrome 27)
If the site is aimed at high quality content I'd suggest that the submit page should not be the first thing that the user sees after creating the account. I understand that right now you need users&submissions but in the future it might be beneficial if users will be required to learn a bit about the community (read X posts, take part in Y discussions etc.) before submitting stuff.
It looks pretty nice! I would suggest that you get rid of the list numbering. It adds little value to the front page (knowing the exact rank of a post isn't very useful) and makes the points a little more confusing.
I would make the list numbers more subtle (gray), or would remove them altogether.<p>Currently, the two numbers so close together (same size/font) look weird:<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/nvr6cCC.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/nvr6cCC.png</a>
If anyone wants an invite, I'd be happy to give one out if you actually deserve it. You can submit an application on the page, but if you want to send details I'm at ian{dot}carroll{at}snapstudiodesign{dot}com
If you remove underline, and increase font-size to 21 px for titles, it will look lot better on windows.<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/7ZKA7gh.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/7ZKA7gh.png</a>