At the moment the site mostly just monitors HN and reddit for new (tech related) posts that are getting a lot of comments in the past 24 hours...but if people find it useful, I may expand to monitor more sources (and offer a daily email digest)
Nice! I could see myself using something like this.<p>Personally, I'd tweak the rankings a bit -- right now, all of the reddit posts are above the more-interesting HN articles. For me, an article with 100 points and 40 comments on HN is likely a more interesting story than a post in /r/Android with 200 comments.<p>Perhaps the ranking algorithm could be comments per audience-size?
This is reminiscent of what Engage.io was trying to do with its popular conversations feature before it shut down. I like the fact it focuses on tech conversations rather than conversations in general, there's so much more value to me in pre-filtering the content to a vertical I'm interested rather than trying to be everything for everyone. Great job, it's immediately engaging.
It reminds me of Techmeme in a way. If you could group together stories that are alike (e.g. all of the Apple September 9th ones) and link to each discussion, it would be rather interesting (compared to Techmeme which focuses on all the authoritative sources discussing something, not communities like HN or Reddit).
Oh man, another place for me to waste time. This seems very cool, I'd love to see more sources added to it. I agree that the source and topic should be made more easily discernible. Once you add more sources, I could see it getting confusing.<p>A daily email digest would be a good idea for many users. I like to get involved in a discussion, though, but the digest would have to be sent after the discussions are over. Maybe a section for "rising" discussions if that's possible with how you've designed this?<p>I'll definitely try to use this next week as my time-waster.
It's a nicely done site. It may just be my interest has diverged from generic tech news, but this looks like internet scale bikeshedding. It's not the biggest impact developments, or the biggest breakthroughs, it's the boring stuff that's relatable to a large number of people so it gets a lot of low quality comments.
Here's another test site for something similar: <a href="http://www.informio.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.informio.com</a><p>[Won't launch the project with tech though when finished]
Nice, its about time someone re-invented the old Technorati concept. Doing sentiment analysis on news trends seems like such a useful idea, I'm really surprised there are more sites like this.
Awesome! I was thinking of curating popular HN posts in a similar way, but with a little less frequency (higher threshold before it gets pushed to a feed or whatever). Very cool.